Fusing Italian and Japanese food has been the downfall of many restaurants, but Kissa Tanto pulls it off. This salad of smoked and fried octopus, for example, may call to mind fried calamari, but the parsley-chile sauce on the bottom of the plate takes it in another direction.
Rafal Gerszak for The New York Times
Kissa Tanto
A dreamworld in Vancouver, where Italian food is made with Japanese sensibility and ingredients.