Vestige
United States
Vestige sits in downtown Ocean Springs on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, where Alex Perry and Kumi Omori have run the restaurant since 2013. Their contemporary tasting menu combines local sourcing with Japanese ingredients, bringing shiso, seaweed, aged miso and koji into the kitchen’s vocabulary. Past dishes have included mochi cornbread and wild-caught tilefish accompanied by seaweed gribiche, showing how Gulf ingredients and Japanese influences meet on the plate. Modern art hangs in the small dining room, where tables have space between them. The menu changes, so these dishes illustrate the cooking rather than forming a fixed selection.