Day 2, Thursday, June 12
Pierre Garnier - The first restaurant we shot was a seedling of yet another prolific world class chef. It was... nice. Not really my bag of tea, but a fine restaurant, and still inthemo as far being very high-end goes.
An inthemo first happened here. At the end of the shoot, we were asked to pay for the food they had made for the video shoot. Usually, in the states and elsewhere, restaurants are more than happy to show off their eye-pleasing dishes. Even more, they often let us eat them after shooting.
The Offer of eating was extended here, which was nice, and then payment brought up halfway through. Maria (our producer) really did not know what to say.
Don't know what it is. Tasty though.Birdland-
Later that afternoon we went off in search of our only other scheduled shoot, Birdland. Our guide/interpreter, Mitch, had a bitch of a time finding the place, which was because it was under a building in a tunnel leading to a train station (I think).
It was a yakitori joint (barbequed chicken on a stick), but the real attraction was the chef, Mr. Wada, who was a badass. We talked at length during his interview about Japanese cooking, and why they don't like the Michelin Star system. It's difficult for me to communicate, but from what he said, the idea of naming what was definitively "the best" was contrary to Japanese thinking, because it was prideful to even think you could know the best, given all that is out there. Anyhow, I thought that was cool.
Mr. Wada.
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