In the Norikura Highlands, the kitchen has no fixed electrical connection. Norikura Star & Moon Restaurant instead draws the power for cooking and lighting from electric vehicles, then uses the same service…
Before a magician reaches the table, the surprise has already been specified. Opened on 1 October 2026, Gran GIOIA Ginza asks bookers how visibly they want a celebration staged and what the…
A restaurant usually begins with a lease. Dinner in the Sky Düsseldorf begins with a crane, 32 secured seats and permission to leave the ground. Running at Hansaallee 313 from 23 September…
The sound comes before the first sip. At KACHASUI, a new takeaway tea shop near Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park, staff crush whole fruit only after an order is placed, then combine it with…
A coffee costing ¥440 normally buys a drink and, at best, a polite stretch of table time. At SELF CAFE Chitose-karasuyama, it buys the seat for as long as the doors remain…
A café counter in Oldham now begins 200 metres away, among medlars, chillies, wheat and five commercial polytunnels. Open since 19 September, Northern Roots Café is the food-service arm of a 160-acre…
At 11 a.m. in Shinjuku, a yakiniku restaurant starts selling charcoal-grilled eel; by evening, the eel brand disappears and the meat restaurant returns. Hirudake Unagiya opened its Shinjuku Gyoen branch on September…
A café normally supplies the menu, the music and the reason to visit. Tokyo’s 07-MODULE Starship Cafe asks customers to bring the missing ingredient: the thing they care about. Opened in Nakano…
At a stainless-steel counter beneath Tokyo’s Shiodome towers, the menu asks a stranger question than coffee or tea: what kind of focus do you want? NEWTRON, opened September 17 by And The…
At Tokyo’s new eight-seat dessert counter, perfume is not merely discouraged; a strong scent can stop a guest at the door. That rule explains more about nuance than its minimalist room or…