Little Miss Geisha is a model new restaurant (opened in January 2024) with inside design influenced by the machiyas of Kyōto and genuine delicacies “that may transport you instantly again to the land of the rising solar” (or so says the web site), while additionally permitting you to get pleasure from a candy view of the Luxembourg Backyard simply reverse.
That’s fairly the self-confident introduction! Let’s see how our lunch there went…
Can’t say we’re large followers of the identify Little Miss Geisha, however the restaurant does appear to have lots going for it, together with a terrace overlooking the wonderful Luxembourg Backyard (nicely, it’s over the highway) that’s solely minutes from all our accommodations.
The inside design is meant to offer hints of a Japanese geisha home, with tones so impartial – beige rubbing shoulders with off-white, parchment and magnolia – chances are you’ll not even discover them. There’s additionally a variety of wooden of various shades, giving the room a sure stateliness but additionally heat. It’s an ethereal house crammed with pure gentle, and also you’ll discover much more on the coated terrace. One factor that struck us although was the diminutive measurement of the tables, and the way shut collectively they’re, which is a slight disgrace.
You may also wish to know that you may really go to at any time of day, because the restaurant provides what it calls a geisha tea-time between lunch and dinner, with mocktails and each candy and savoury snacks. No matter time of day you determine to go, it’s finest to guide forward (right here) because the place fills up rapidly.
We went down for a fast lunch, and determined to skip the starters (one among which, to be shared, is made up of seven items and prices 49€). Our eye was interested in the Edo-style sushis (Edo being the previous identify of Tokyo).
The one named Oshi – Sake Kasu (a creation from Fukuoka, with two layers of rice and one among fish) is listed as being obtainable as a vegan possibility, nevertheless once we requested for this we had been instructed it was not potential and that as a substitute they might adapt the Futomaki, a blended maki with seaweed, tsukemonos (actually “chopped issues”) and shoyu tokiarubeshi (a sort of soy sauce), served with black sesame mayonnaise.
We ordered six items every, with fish for one particular person and vegan for the opposite, they usually arrived pretty quickly after.
The makis (costing round 5€ every) had been large! Each extensive and thick, the issue was the sheet of seaweed holding them collectively which was unattainable to get by means of with chopsticks, and even with our enamel once we determined the most suitable choice was to eat with our arms. Ripping this exterior layer made a lot of the rice fall out – not probably the most elegant of appears for a enterprise lunch. Maybe there’s some secret to consuming these delicately that we don’t find out about?
In any case, we must always in all probability have shared a starter and ordered fewer makis, as a result of six is lots.
Though ending our predominant dish was difficult, we roughly managed, and it’s right here that our expertise began to go barely downhill.
The restaurant had stuffed up, and for a really very long time no person got here to take our plates away. With solely two waiters for all the room and terrace, they had been having a tough time maintaining, and it took us a very very long time to get their consideration and order our desserts. Two hours had passed by already, and we’d solely eaten one course.
For dessert we determined to have a Matcha edamame moshi (Uji matcha tea ganache, adzuki bean cream with edamame beans, uncooked pistachio oil, 12€) which was prettily introduced, and a matcha-verbena tiramisu (dorayaki sponge soaked in matcha tea, gentle mascarpone cream with a touch of verbena, 15€), which was an enormous success, tremendous creamy with delicate tastes, all in a really beneficiant serving.
Two and a half hours had now passed by, and pressed for time we determined it might be higher to not order espresso.
The meal began nicely, after which slowed right down to a snail’s tempo, which we discovered very irritating. The workforce members had been all actually smiley and good, however not everybody has nigh on three hours for lunch. With the variety of tables the restaurant has, they very clearly want an additional particular person to maintain issues transferring.
We’re guessing a night meal could be a extra agreeable affair, when time isn’t a problem. For a extra zen expertise, our recommendation can be to guide for dinner and benefit from the heat tones of the room, presumably on a heat night.
Little Miss Geisha (right here) is open day by day besides Mondays for lunch, tea time and dinner
On-line reservation right here
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