8 Restaurants Putting Fusion Food Back on the Map

"A One‑MICHELIN‑Star restaurant that skillfully blends Tokyo‑style, traditional Nara, and contemporary Spanish cuisines, TOKi offers a seasonal tasting menu from Chef Yutaka Hasegawa. Dishes include “Primavera,” combining raw bonito, potato salad, and snow pea sauce, and Bacalao pilpil Yuzaki Nebuka, where confit cod in a light pilpil is paired with the traditional vegetable cooked lightly to draw out its sweetness and delicacy. Dessert is a tarta de Santiago marrying almond paste, licorice mousse, caramel ice cream, and Nara chestnuts presented two ways—whole and finely grated into powder." - The MICHELIN Guide