Aiko S.
Yelp
La Maison de la Nature Goh (#24 on the 2019 Asia's 50 Best Restaurants and one star Michelin) has been on my bucket list for a long time and I knew I had to come here before they closed at the end of 2020.
The restaurant serves French food featuring local ingredients from Kyushu such as Amao strawberries and abalone from Nagasaki in a casual environment. They only have two menus - a 6,000 yen (around $60) six course tasting menu and an 8,000 yen (around $80) seven course tasting menu, which is incredibly reasonable for a restaurant of this caliber. Most people recommend that you get the 6,000 yen menu if it's your first time at the restaurant and then go for the 8,000 yen menu on your next visit.
Everything on the menu was delicious, especially the abalone with brown sugar and shiitake mushrooms and the Amao strawberry tea, but above all the service really stood out. Owner chef Takeshi Fukuyama personally greeted each guest and head chef Hiroshi Ando went out of his way to call the tea place that he recommended going to afterwards to secure reservations before the end of the meal.
Sad to say that this restaurant is closing at the end of the year because Chef Fukuyama will be opening a new restaurant with Chef Gaggan Anand, the owner of Gaggan, Bangkok's four time winner of Asia's 50 Best Restaurants, but their new restaurant will be in Fukuoka, making the southern Japanese city the new culinary destination.