
Food & Drink | TOKYO FOOD FILE Jun 3, 2014
Kagura: Refined traditional dining minus the airs and graces
by Robbie Swinnerton
Akasaka's restaurants are an eclectic mix. Cheek-by-jowl with the raucous pubs, ramen counters and Korean kimchee kitchens, you find inscrutable anonymous facades, many of them exclusive ryōtei (traditional restaurants) reserved for politicians and captains of industry. Kagura does not operate at that rarefied level. But ...