Hi @naf Belated thanks to you and everyone for the welcome!
This is the third time I joined a food forum within the last decade and definitely the best newbie experience so far. Quite different from the hostility and suspicion I initially experienced on CH (a volunteer mod thought I was a notorious sockpuppet). I’ve dined with some former Hounds IRL most notably at Tacolandia, a taco fest in Los Angeles and Shunji restaurant for sushi and double truffle Japanese rice.
Thanks for letting me know about the Sourdough thread – after posting, I tried to edit my comment, but got locked out by the 11:30pm maintenance that night and then you saw my erroneous comment the following day. 
Interesting how HO doesn’t allow late edits to a personal post. I see this happens to HO veterans, too – I’m gonna call this site’s quirk, "got Chennai’d."
I was invited to the board by @ipsedixit and he’s offered to correct my edits if I get locked out again 
About the Alain Ducasse restaurant in Tokyo, it really is called “Beige Alain Ducasse Tokyo” – it’s in the Chanel building in the ritzy Ginza district and guess what color the decor is? 
The cuisine emphasizes “natural flavors” and ingredients from Kamakura. http://beige-tokyo.com/en/
