Rice with Miso Soup

This was a short-lived dish at the restaurant, but one that signaled our early commitment to a kaiseki-style meal, in that it concluded the savoury portion of the menu with rice and pickles and miso soup, just as it would be done in a traditional kaiseki restaurant.

It was a perfectly fine dish, if maybe a little boring. There are a million ways a dish can fail—poor conception, poor execution and so on—but this one fell off the menu fast because it demonstrated a too-literal commitm