Ah too bad! We just had an exceptional lunch at Den Kushi Flori for today and it made us want to do Florilege (and Den, but obviously impossible to book). But that review is pretty damning
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kytran40 on
Dodged a bullet. Almost booked it for my recent trip
Unusual-Friend-9768 on
I’m a firm believer that serving customers sunchokes is an act of culinary terrorism and all stars should be forfeited.
Gatsbeaner on
Had a terrible meal here in 2019. Don’t understand the hype at all.
LunaArc on
I am so happy you posted this because my wife and I stared at each other in disbelief during the entire meal and I thought I was crazy. I just didn’t understand how Florilege could be so highly regarded with the quality of food they pushed out. Don’t get me wrong, nothing was gross or disgusting but the best word I can think of was uninspiring.
We also noticed something weird where different patrons had different main courses and desserts so we asked the server why this is. His explanation was that returning customers get different courses as a sign of thanking them and I thought oh ok that makes sense…except the couple next to us was from Canada and never been to Japanese and said it is their first time here to Florilege and yet we still had entirely different entrees and desserts.
I can attest to their shaved ice place, Azuki to Kouri though. That place was amazing and definitely worth a visit.
Mara_des_Bois on
I love the title you used for this post 🤣
GoSh4rks on
This is a interesting post because I was there for lunch less than 2 weeks ago and though it was very good with near opposite thoughts. Had basically the same menu except the lily bulb and fish courses were omitted.
I don’t know why you were surprised to be charged for water? Pretty standard when it is being served out of bottles IME, and it was bottomless.
The egg dish to open was nothing like a boiled egg for me, and carried interesting sweet notes. Did not get the pastry.
The tomato consume was very memorable in its tomato taste, and I thought the beet dish was quite good.
Received 3 ravioli instead of the 2 here. It was fine – sauce was good. The roll thing wasn’t good but not gross. IIRC it was chinese cabbage?
I really liked the mushrooms with the duck.
Apple pie dessert was great.
My departing thoughts were that yes, I could see why this was on the top 50 list and that it was slightly better than the very solid 2* Ryuzu lunch i had the day before. Favorite dish was the apple dessert, followed closely by the beet and turnip dishes.
kitafloyd on
The wife and I had a similar experience. Narisawa however, was fantastic.
Syrup_And_Honey on
Gonna use this opportunity to beg people to stop using sunchoke. It’s ubiquitous and nobody’s talking about it 😫
BocaTaberu on
Florilege high rating on Tabelog was predominantly underpinned by strength of their cost performance more than the food itself (I paid 8K for lunch last time)
And we know Michelin is a hit and miss in Japan while W50 is mainly a show
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Ah too bad! We just had an exceptional lunch at Den Kushi Flori for today and it made us want to do Florilege (and Den, but obviously impossible to book). But that review is pretty damning
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Dodged a bullet. Almost booked it for my recent trip
I’m a firm believer that serving customers sunchokes is an act of culinary terrorism and all stars should be forfeited.
Had a terrible meal here in 2019. Don’t understand the hype at all.
I am so happy you posted this because my wife and I stared at each other in disbelief during the entire meal and I thought I was crazy. I just didn’t understand how Florilege could be so highly regarded with the quality of food they pushed out. Don’t get me wrong, nothing was gross or disgusting but the best word I can think of was uninspiring.
We also noticed something weird where different patrons had different main courses and desserts so we asked the server why this is. His explanation was that returning customers get different courses as a sign of thanking them and I thought oh ok that makes sense…except the couple next to us was from Canada and never been to Japanese and said it is their first time here to Florilege and yet we still had entirely different entrees and desserts.
I can attest to their shaved ice place, Azuki to Kouri though. That place was amazing and definitely worth a visit.
I love the title you used for this post 🤣
This is a interesting post because I was there for lunch less than 2 weeks ago and though it was very good with near opposite thoughts. Had basically the same menu except the lily bulb and fish courses were omitted.
I don’t know why you were surprised to be charged for water? Pretty standard when it is being served out of bottles IME, and it was bottomless.
The egg dish to open was nothing like a boiled egg for me, and carried interesting sweet notes. Did not get the pastry.
The tomato consume was very memorable in its tomato taste, and I thought the beet dish was quite good.
Received 3 ravioli instead of the 2 here. It was fine – sauce was good. The roll thing wasn’t good but not gross. IIRC it was chinese cabbage?
I really liked the mushrooms with the duck.
Apple pie dessert was great.
My departing thoughts were that yes, I could see why this was on the top 50 list and that it was slightly better than the very solid 2* Ryuzu lunch i had the day before. Favorite dish was the apple dessert, followed closely by the beet and turnip dishes.
The wife and I had a similar experience. Narisawa however, was fantastic.
Gonna use this opportunity to beg people to stop using sunchoke. It’s ubiquitous and nobody’s talking about it 😫
Florilege high rating on Tabelog was predominantly underpinned by strength of their cost performance more than the food itself (I paid 8K for lunch last time)
And we know Michelin is a hit and miss in Japan while W50 is mainly a show