Chef Yusuke Namai's modern-French cuisine is far too good to hurry over, let alone try to cram into an office lunch hour. And it's way too creative to shoehorn into the standard starter-main-dessert format. Over the course of more than three hours, he delivers ...

The madai served at Uchiyama are from the Naruto Strait, which separates eastern Shikoku from Awaji Island (part of Hyogo Prefecture). These waters, where the Pacific meets the Inland Sea are turbulent, with violent eddies and whirlpools. The fish caught there are considered the ...