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Address in Paris serving traditional Japanese specialities, pancakes, and hot plate cooking.
The Benkay, which has ruled the Japanese cuisine of the capital for years, has not aged a bit. Facing the Seine, the decoration, in a wenge style, is bewitching and sumptuously Japanese. And then, as we all like short stories, know that Benkay is under the high patronage of the famous Musashibô Benkei, a fighting and bloodthirsty monk of the 12th century whose exploits are told in many Kabuki theatre plays. Here the Chefs have nothing aggressive, quite the contrary, and they each have their own speciality. One is Washoku (traditional Japanese recipes for teriyaki beef, grilled eels, or tempura doughnuts, prawns and vegetables); the other is the master of Teppan Yaki, cooking on the hot plate and the menu is composed before the eyes of customers: fresh half-langouste, beef fillet and sautéed rice, and the highly visual fujiyama for dessert (flambé crepe with vanilla ice cream and fruit salad). Teppan yaki (baking on a plate) is only available on reservation due to the very limited number of places. And in the evening the prices increase...
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