The hotel’s restaurant WA aims to celebrate the diversity of Japanese food, serving up very reasonably priced regional specialities on a three-monthly rota. Kicking things off is food from Oita prefecture, with menu highlights including gomadashi udon noodles (660 yen/£4.50) and atsumeshi, a fisherman’s dish of sashimi and rice (1,540 yen/£10). Japanese and Western breakfast buffets also take centre stage in WA’s simple sunlit dining space (grilled horse mackerel, rice rolls, miso soup and big metal pots of high quality Koshihikari rice plus fruits, sausages and pastries).
Food options are not limited to WA however: on the sixth floor, just outside the hotel entrance, is the Salon, a bar with a long camphor wood counter selling coffees, teas, Japanese sweets, snacks and seasonal cocktails until 2am (anyone for a Amanatsu orange pulp with gin and soda?). It even has a “design chair” menu, in case you’d like to sit on an Eames seat.
The ground floor of the MUJI flagship also has a bakery, takeaway bento lunch boxes and a juice stand, while MUJI Diner in the basement serves up Japanese-style home cooking – such as a breakfast of nigiri rice balls, grilled fish and homemade yushi tofu – from 7.30am to 10pm.
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