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L'ARGENT is a modern French restaurant on the second floor of the Tokyo Club Building, 3-2-6 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and it holds one Michelin star in the 2026 guide.
Kato was born in Shizuoka in 1982 and trained at the Tsuji Culinary Institute before cooking at Tateru Yoshino in Tokyo and Hotel de Yoshino in Wakayama. In 2009 he moved to Paris, where he worked the meat station at three-starred Astrance. Copenhagen followed in 2012, then the chef's post at Sublime in Tokyo in 2015. He became the opening chef of L'ARGENT in 2020.
The site describes dishes built on a French foundation, with ingredients and presentation borrowed from Scandinavian cooking. The restaurant also frames itself around sustainability, using local and seasonal produce to cut food loss and food miles. Gault&Millau scores the kitchen 15.5 for 2026.
Lunch is a single course at 15,400 JPY. Dinner starts with a shorter menu at 19,800 JPY and runs to the full L'ARGENT menu at 28,600 JPY. A business dinner at the same price finishes within two hours and centers on beef. The room has 18 counter seats, 8 table seats and a private room for 4. A wine list is offered alongside.
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