Special vegan lunch at Little Heaven, Kyoto
Vegan restaurant Little Heaven, near Arashiyama in Kyoto, has been closed since 2 years for their special menu lunch because of the Covid pandemic. They finally restarted this special treat but only upon reservation. We managed to get one and we went to eat this delicious, rare vegan menu. You must phone to make a reservation for this restaurant.
Here is what we had on Oct. 16th, 2022:
1: Assorted Yuba - 2: Soup - 3: Salad - 4: Main dish - 5: Vegetable sushis - 6: Dessert - 7: Drink, coffee or black tea or herbal tea or bancha. And during the menu, we had half a bottle of Cremant de Die, a sparkling white wine, champagne type.
The photos speak more than words. A really and tasty high class menu in a true zen restaurant, worth a 3 star Michelin restaurant.
Entrance of the restaurant
Sign that indicates clearly, it is a vegan restaurant
The menu is served in a private room, nice view over a japanese garden, and very soft music in the background.
1- Assorted Yuba: Fried yuba and nama-fu. Yuzu flavor. Persimmon rolled in yuba
Yuba is a delicacy composed of fresh layers of soy milk skin. Nama-fu is a Japanese raw wheat gluten.
2- Squash soup
3- Salad: Beetroot mousse. Cream of rice. Mushroom patties. Carrot marinade. Mesclun greens and brown rice sweet sake dressing.
4- Main dish : Deep fried yuba millefeuille tower. Black soybean. Burdock root confit. Cauliflower. Black radish. Homemade smoked tofu. Rice flour cream sauce with soy milk and porcini mushrooms.
5- Vegetable sushis. Tomato (tuna style). Nata de coco (squid style). Mushroom (scallop style). Carrot cream and cucumber (sea urchin style). Soy meat (eel style). Pickles.
6- Dessert: Pear jelly style. Chocolate terrine.
7- Drink: coffee or black tea or herbal tea or bancha.
© PHOTOS BY JC DUMONT