Vegan restaurant serving playful, imaginative japanese and fusion dishes in beautiful Kyoto.
The restaurant is headed by a Fukushima-born chef, Asuka Hashimoto, who was herself raised on a vegan diet by nutritionist parents - so it's easy to see where the love for healthy, colorful food comes from.
Their menu is in a constant flux based on which organically grown ingredients are both in season and of particularly good quality at any given time which is why we chose an expressive, a bit abstractified approach. Instead of soon-to-be-replaced plates we photographed their obsession; fantastical ingredients reaching out from the Japanese soil (both in the literal and cultural sense)
which is represented by the washi paper backgrounds in the final images.
Their menu is in a constant flux based on which organically grown ingredients are both in season and of particularly good quality at any given time which is why we chose an expressive, a bit abstractified approach. Instead of soon-to-be-replaced plates we photographed their obsession; fantastical ingredients reaching out from the Japanese soil (both in the literal and cultural sense)
which is represented by the washi paper backgrounds in the final images.
