Travel

Nanao

By Kathleen Squires


Published on February 8, 2013

Since 1985, when Katsuko Nanao opened her restaurant Nanao, she's been putting her unique stamp on kaiseki, Japan's most formal cooking style. A self-taught chef with an all-female staff, Nanao bucks tradition—and her unorthodox food—sole sashimi with shreds of mountain yam, delicate fried mushrooms with gingko nuts—is what happens when home cooking meets kaiseki. It's a breath of fresh air.

Nanao
No. 2 Ishihara Building, First Floor

_1-5-10 Azabu-Juban, Minato-ku _

Tokyo, Japan
03/3401-7770

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