For serene dining in the foothills of Mount Mino, head for chef Atsushi Hirata’s Le Restaurant du Haze, a macrobiotic and vegan restaurant in a traditional Japanese house. The experimental menu combines local produce – garden salads come to life with petals and amazake dressing, wholegrain spelt pastas and vegetable curries zing, then there’s the desserts of the day and organic teas – with Hirata’s takes on ancient fermentation techniques. Book ahead: to cut down on waste, reservations are required. simple-moderne.com Christina Ohly Evans
Seven Swans, Frankfurt
Housed inside Frankfurt’s narrowest building is this tiny 20-seater and one of three vegan restaurants in Germany to hold a Michelin star. Chef Ricky Saward’s rotating set menu is an extension of his “root-to-leaf” philosophy, with seasonal ingredients such as celeriac, gooseberry and red cabbage plucked from the restaurant’s own permaculture farm in the Taunus mountains just north of the city. Seated in an intimate candlelit dining room overlooking the river Main, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more magical setting for a herbivorous date in the city. sevenswans.de Sara Semic