To my great regret – as a restaurant critic, as a traveller and as a man – I have been to Japan only once. It was nine years ago (God, was it?) and I went for a little under four days, gobbling a freebie from the owners of some giant hotel chain and doing my best to cram in as many meals in as many restaurants as I could. I ate 5 meals a day and covered 17 restaurants. Every single one of them – chosen completely at random – was better than any other restaurant I have ever eaten in, anywhere…

Source: The Times September 09, 2016 23:03 UTC