If your appetite for autumn extends beyond simply watching the leaves fall, there are many
local hotel restaurants offering new menus with sumptuous seasonal flavor. Reservations
are required at all of these places.
Imperial Hotel Tokyo
Until Oct 31, all thirteen restaurants at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel are featuring new full
course menus of delicious dishes using seasonal ingredients. Les Saisons
offer features an hors d'oeuvre of ballottine of eel with a Macon wine sauce, consommé
with oxtail ravioli, meuniere of frog's legs with truffles, shrimp and crab Joinville, and
pan-fried ostrich with French mushrooms. A dessert of chestnut flambé with rum and
gingerbread ice cream ends the meal. (JY15,000 per person, exclusive of tax and service)
Open 5:30-9:30pm. 1-1-1 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku. 03-3504-1111. Nearest stn:
Subway Hibiya
The New Otani
Until the end of November the New Otani's Blue Sky Chinese restaurant
will be offering diners the chance to sample delicious Peking Duck and Cantonese
specialities. The all-you-can-eat lunch buffet, in the hotel's revolving restaurant, will
feature 40 different dishes, while the dinner has 50. The focus of the banquest are the
four Cantonese roast dishes: spare ribs, chashu (BBQ pork), roast chicken roast duck.
Lunch (JY3500 excluding tax and service) is served from 11:30-2pm and dinner (JY6300
excluding tax and service) is from 5-9pm.
Hilton Tokyo
The Hilton Tokyo has three great promotions this fall. The grill and rotisserie restaurant
Twenty One will serve "The Ultimate Wining and Dining
Experience" on September 28. Guest French chef Patrice Gabet (Hilton Tokyo Bay) will
introduce interesting ways to explore the "art of food" in an eight-course,
French dinner, and guest sommelier Toshifumi Nakamoto (Chief Sommelier of the Ginza
Shiseido restaurant Roge) will be on hand to introduce fine wines. (JY60,000 per person,
inclusive of service and tax). During October, Twenty One will be serving a total of eight
specialities daily, ranging from appetizers to main dishes, that feature either mushrooms,
foie gras or truffles. Try the Sauteed Foie Gras and Assorted Mushrooms on Seasonal Salad
in Shiraz Dressing (JY3400), Asian Mushroom Capuccino soup (JY950), or the Grilled Beef
Tournedo topped with sauteed Gooseliver Truffle Gravy and Mushroom-Potato Lasagna
(JY6400).
The Hilton Tokyo's Marble Lounge and Checkers also offer
a tempting Egyptian promotion. A generous buffet of authentic Egyptian dishes created by
guest chefs from the Cairo Nile Hilton will be served from October 13-October 22. The
Egyptian lunch and Sunday brunch buffet (JY2500, JY3500) will be served at Marble Lounge,
and the dinner buffet (JY3600) can be enjoyed at Checkers. Special children's prices are
available. There's a dinner buffet "Happy Hour," when the all-you-can-eat buffet
is JY2900 from 6-8pm. All prices are exclusive of a ten percent service charge and
government tax.
Twenty One: Wining and Dining-cocktails start at 6:30pm, dinner starts at 7pm.
Normally open for lunch 11:30am-3pm, and dinner 5:30-10pm. Marble Lounge: lunch 12-2pm
(except Sun), Sunday brunch 11am-2pm. Checkers: dinner 6-10pm. 6-2, Nishi-Shinjuku
6-chome, Shinjuku. 03-3344-5111. Nearest stn: JR Shinjuku
