The showstopper is a 10-course kaiseki menu ($120) that must be ordered the day before and takes all evening to consume. It's a dazzling display of ingredients rarely seen outside Japan, or at least Midtown. - Oliver Schwaner-Albright
Kyo Ya specializes in kaiseki, a form of cuisine said to have originated in sixteenth-century Kyoto, initially as an accompaniment to the tea ceremony. - Leo Carey