Address -Tokyo-to, Meguro-ku, Mita 1-13-1 Ebisu Garden Place, Opening hours - 11:30 14:00 and 17:30 to 21:00 Map - Unnecessary. See directions Telephone -5424-1338 Menu - In Japanese and French CC - OK

Taillevent Robuchon has a site.

Some time ago an old customer of mine was so kind to invite me to a company dinner. The venue turned out to be at a French restaurant called Taillevent Robuchon. TR is the first, and so far last, "neckties required" restaurant I have been to. You see, although Italian, I usually look like a tramp, and that suits me just fine, so to go I had to buy a used jacket in Harajuku for 2000 yen and borrow a tie. I nonetheless looked really, really spiffy: see for yourself.
To go back to our subject, saying that jacket and ties are required doesn't even begin to adequately describe the atmosphere. Excess is the theme, here. To begin with, our restaurant occupies an entire building, and what a building! It's built to look like an 18th century patrician countryside residence: the only thing missing is the ivy.
Since we are after all in Ebisu, on seeing it at first you tend to blame a sunstroke.
The belief that waste is a surefire sign of wealth is apparently not a monopoly of the Chinese, and the insanely lavish use of space continues inside the building, where we were led through an empty corridor to an elevator. On the third floor, the 20 odd of us occupied a huge room with just three tables.
Alas, with this the memorable part of the evening is over: the dinner was designed more to please vanities than palates, and I do not remember much, other that we got lots of jellies of one kind or another. Pomp and circumstance do not prevent mistakes from appearing in the French on the menu, which contains items like "LE FOIE GRAS DE CANARD GRILLE AU POIVRON ROUGE CONFIT ET ACIDUL AVEC UN JUS SAFRANE", whatever that means.
After the mandatory champagne, tiny plates of the said various jellied substances prettily decorated with squirts of this and that followed each other at generous intervals, brought to the tables by the numerous attending staff, maitres and sommelliers.
I must admit that as a way of eating it has its advantages. You don't gorge on food, you have the time to really taste it and have the opportunity to chat with your friends.
But it really is sad when you must say that the only thing that didn't impress you of a restaurant is the food, especially when it's as fantastically expensive as TR's: nothing below 5700 yen is on offer, and sets start at 17 thousand yen.

TR is predictably easy to find: from Ebisu station follow the arrows to Ebisu Garden Place, and there you will HAVE to see it.