Talisman Restaurant serves meals in what was once the home of wildlife photographer Alan Root, a small house in Karen that has grown into a restaurant with an organic garden. The kitchen uses produce from the garden, and the dining room keeps the feel of the original house.

Reservations are recommended, as the restaurant fills with locals and visitors who come for the garden-to-table approach. The space retains its residential roots, with rooms that still suggest the house it was before the kitchen moved in.

The organic garden supplies the kitchen, and the menu changes with what grows there. The restaurant shares its compound with Dojo Wellness Club, a gym and spa, but the focus remains on the food and the history of the building.