{"id":2249,"date":"2013-04-25T15:58:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T06:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-04-25\/2249"},"modified":"2013-04-25T15:58:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T06:58:46","slug":"dinner-at-kyotos-kiev-restaurant-highly-recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-04-25\/2249","title":{"rendered":"Dinner at Kyoto&#8217;s &#8220;Kiev&#8221; Restaurant: Highly Recommended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF_i4s_1848_sm.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\"\nalt=\"\u0411\u0430\u043b\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430 #3 Baltika Beer #3 at the &amp;#8220;Kiev&amp;#8221; restaurant, Kyoto Japan -- Restaurant Kiev \"\nid=\"ii4s_1848\"\ntitle=\"\u0411\u0430\u043b\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430 #3 Baltika Beer #3 at the &amp;#8220;Kiev&amp;#8221; restaurant, Kyoto Japan -- Restaurant Kiev \"\/>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>\u0411\u0430\u043b\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430 #3<\/span>\n<br\/>Baltika Beer #3\n<br\/>at the &#8220;Kiev&#8221; restaurant, Kyoto Japan\n<\/div>\n\n<p>We recently had a very nice family dinner at the <a href='http:\/\/www.kyotokyoto.jp\/dining_cafe\/de015\/index.html'>Kiev Russian Restaurant<\/a>\n(<a href='http:\/\/www.restaurant-kiev.com\/'>\u30ec\u30b9\u30c8\u30e9\u30f3\u30ad\u30a8\u30d5<\/a>) in Kyoto's Gion district.<\/p>\n\n<p>I'd never had Russian cuisine and so didn't really know what to\nexpect, but it was <i>fantastic<\/i>. <span class='nobr'>It was a<\/span> good place to make <span class='nobr'>a first<\/span>\nimpression of Russian food because the highest quality was evident in every aspect of the\nmeal... from the obviously superb raw ingredients down to the presentation.<\/p>\n\n<p>At Kiev I had the spring seasonal course dinner &#8220;Besner&#8221;... course after course\nof absolutely delightful foods of, again, the highest quality. <span class='nobr'>I couldn't<\/span> get enough.<\/p>\n\n<p>I only had my iPhone camera with me, and <span class='nobr'>I don't<\/span> want to put yucky photos\nof amazingly-good food, but here's one that's sort of fun, some kind of popover bread\nas <span class='nobr'>a lid<\/span> for <span class='nobr'>a pot<\/span> of exceedingly succulent beef stew...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF_i4s_1853_sm.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\"\nalt=\"Wow my mother-in-law registers surprise at the size -- Restaurant Kiev -- Kyoto, Japan\"\nid=\"ii4s_1853\"\ntitle=\"Wow my mother-in-law registers surprise at the size -- Restaurant Kiev -- Kyoto, Japan\"\/>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">iPhone 4S at an effective 35mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>15 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.4, ISO 640 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF_i4s_1853_sm.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF_i4s_1853_sm.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Wow<\/span>\n<br\/>my mother-in-law registers surprise at the size\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The meal ends with a cup of hot tea, made interesting by <span class='nobr'>a huge<\/span> pot of jam that you're supposed to mix in (instead of honey or sugar, <span class='nobr'>I suppose<\/span>).<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF_i4s_1863_sm.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\"\nalt=\"Tea and Jam -- Restaurant Kiev -- Kyoto, Japan\"\nid=\"ii4s_1863\"\ntitle=\"Tea and Jam -- Restaurant Kiev -- Kyoto, Japan\"\/>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">iPhone 4S at an effective 35mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>20 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.4, ISO 400 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF_i4s_1863_sm.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF_i4s_1863_sm.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Tea and Jam<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Kyoto's &#8220;Kiev&#8221; restaurant: <i>highly<\/i> recommended.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently had a very nice family dinner at the Kiev Russian Restaurant (\u30ec\u30b9\u30c8\u30e9\u30f3\u30ad\u30a8\u30d5) in Kyoto's Gion district.<\/p> <p>I'd never had Russian cuisine and so didn't really know what to expect, but it was fantastic. It was a good place to make a first impression of Russian food because the highest quality was evident in every aspect of the meal... from the obviously superb raw ingredients down to the presentation.<\/p> <p>At Kiev I had the spring seasonal course dinner \"Besner\"... course after course of absolutely delightful foods of, again, the highest quality. I couldn't get enough.<\/p> <p>I only had my [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}