Maison Kei Gotemba

Awards

OAD

Japanese Restaurants 2024, 489

All OAD Japanese in Gotemba All OAD Japanese in Japan

North American Restaurants 2023, Recommended

All OAD North American in Gotemba All OAD North American in Japan

Tabelog

2024 Bronze

All Tabelog in Gotemba All Tabelog in Japan All Tabelog Bronze in Gotemba All Tabelog Bronze in Japan

Ratings from the web

Tabelog

3.98

Chef

Kei Kobayashi

Cuisine

French

• 2021

8 / 10

Lunch at Maison KEI

on 22 Aug 2021

by Gerhard Huber

Scond visit. Some changed dishes. Old classics. I thought that the marinade of the famous salads was slightly strong and thus better. I love the pork dish. The fat was rendered perfectly and full of umami.

9 / 10

Lunch at Maison KEI

on 02 May 2021

by Gerhard Huber

For years I have maintained that French-Japanese fusion cuisine works for me better in France then in Japan. I love places like Passage 53, La neige d’Ete and KEI. I thought the focus and discipline of Japanese chefs bring French food to a special place. The same fusion in Japan is so heavily influenced by the dominance of Japanese food culture, that it becomes a weird version of a Japanese Kaiseki meal.

However, now having lived in Japan for over one year, I need to revise this opinion because... More

For years I have maintained that French-Japanese fusion cuisine works for me better in France then in Japan. I love places like Passage 53, La neige d’Ete and KEI. I thought the focus and discipline of Japanese chefs bring French food to a special place. The same fusion in Japan is so heavily influenced by the dominance of Japanese food culture, that it becomes a weird version of a Japanese Kaiseki meal.

However, now having lived in Japan for over one year, I need to revise this opinion because of some extraordinary meals here. One of them was this one.
Maison KEI is the sister of the three star restaurant in Paris. Kei Kobayashi was the first Japanese Chef to get three stars awarded in France. He collaborated with the Toraya Confectionery Company to open up this place in Gotemba.
The setting is close to Toraya Confectionery Company’s garden with a breathtaking view of Mount Fuji. It was opened in January 2021 and due to the pandemic induced closure of restaurants in France Chef Kobayashi spend a few months working with Mitsuyoshi Sato to get things going. And the team did a really good job.

Some of the highlights from Paris, like the famous salad, are on the menu. The rest is sourced locally, but prepared and presented in a French way. The result is deeply tasty and pleasing. There are some references to the Japanese taste like a pigeon which would be slightly too much cooked for a Western palate (but with an impeccable taste and texture).

The very moderate pricing makes this experience even more pleasing.

Together with the mind blowing show of clouds chasing around the peak of Mount Fuji this restaurant became in no time a destination restaurant which is already hard to book. Nevermind,
Less

Dinner at Maison KEI

on 22 Feb 2021

by Takefumi Hamada

Vacherin with Japanese traditional red bean paste
ヴァシュラン

あんこのアイスクリーム、柚子のシャーベット、レモンのカード、あんこのクリーム、メレンゲ、あんこのソース

「Restaurant Kei」でも定番のメレンゲを使ったヴァシュランに、「とらや」のあんこを取り入れた当店ならではのデザート。

あんこと柚子だけだと和菓子になりそうだが、そこに柚子とは異なるレモンの酸味やメレンゲの食感が加わることで、今まで食べたことがない一品に仕上がっている。

2021年1月

Maison... More

Vacherin with Japanese traditional red bean paste
ヴァシュラン

あんこのアイスクリーム、柚子のシャーベット、レモンのカード、あんこのクリーム、メレンゲ、あんこのソース

「Restaurant Kei」でも定番のメレンゲを使ったヴァシュランに、「とらや」のあんこを取り入れた当店ならではのデザート。

あんこと柚子だけだと和菓子になりそうだが、そこに柚子とは異なるレモンの酸味やメレンゲの食感が加わることで、今まで食べたことがない一品に仕上がっている。

2021年1月

Maison Kei | Gotenba, Shizuoka
静岡 御殿場「メゾン・ケイ」

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