{"id":147760,"date":"2026-02-27T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147760\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:12:07","slug":"the-six-year-old-kaiseki-restaurant-that-still-feels-like-a-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147760\/","title":{"rendered":"The Six-Year-Old Kaiseki Restaurant That Still Feels Like a Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">East Village kaiseki <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/venue\/59658\/tsukimi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tsukimi<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/ny.eater.com\/maps\/michelin-starred-restaurants-nyc-2024#tsukimi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one-Michelin-starred<\/a> restaurant that\u2019s been open for six years, and still feels refreshingly elegant and modern under the helm of co-owners executive chef Takanori Akiyama and manager Karen Lin. Its name is the Japanese word for \u201cmoon viewing,\u201d the autumnal festival honoring the full moon. It\u2019s a $250, 12-course tasting menu bookable through both <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701644&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.exploretock.com%2Ftsukimi%2F\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tock<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentable.com\/r\/tsukimi-new-york\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenTable<\/a>, with sake (with an emphasis on breweries led by female tojis, aka master brewers) available and the matcha service finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The tasting counter is one of the more unique ones I\u2019ve experienced: Two sets of six counter seats face each other, sandwiching the service area. The servers and chefs serve each group separately instead of talking to everyone at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The restaurant signals new seasonal menus by the colors of the noren at the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Village kaiseki Tsukimi is a one-Michelin-starred restaurant that\u2019s been open for six years, and still feels refreshingly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17863,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-147760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}