Archive for March, 2006

Al Porto(池袋東武)

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060319 037.jpgレガレアーリ(ナス、ミートソースとリコッタチーズ)、1320円。ドルチェセット(パナコッタ)、630円。Eggplant, meat sauce and ricotta cheese spaghetti. Panna Cotta and coffee. 2000yen altogether. Quite stiff price for a weekday lunch, but both the pasta and the panna cotta are very good. It is a casual branch of an expensive Italian, and the menu here is limited to a few simple items. The location certainly is very convenient though.

キッチン Oh!Way

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ポタージュ。特製和風土鍋煮込みハンバーグステーキ、950円。
Corn soup. Japanese-style claypot hamburger steak. It is just like sukiyaki! Very good very good! The beef is fresh and not overly grounded.
キッチン Oh!Way

KITCHEN 胡

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コンフィ入りのサラダ。Pork confit salad. The homemade focaccia is really good!
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お魚ランチ。ココナッツパナコッタ。Fish lunch. Coconut panna cotta.

060319 015.jpgFish lunch set is 1700yen. There is only one chef cooking everything and a madam serving. It wasn’t particularly crowded on a weekday, yet it was a loooooooong wait for each course. I was alone and was eating fast, yet it took more than 1 hour to get to the coffee at the end, most of the time waiting. I did get a little grumpy but every dish was prepared whole-heartedly, so I guess I should only go to this restaurant when I have a lot of time and with friends.
KITCHEN 胡

京茶寮鶴

060319 055.jpg抹茶パフェ、840円。
Eat-in inside Seibu. Matcha Parfait.

英陽(ヨンヤン)

060319 049.jpg石焼ビビンバ、861円。A quick eat-in place inside Seibu, next to the counter selling Korean food. The stone-bowl was not hot enough so there was no okoge(that yummy slightly burnt rice at the bottom).

GHIOTTONE

060319 003.jpgペスカトーレ。Pescatora, 900yen. A mountain of spaghetti drowned in tomato sauce that doesn’t seem to get smaller….it certainly is very cheap.

SUIREN

060319 034.jpgThe menu “Uni spaghetti 900yen” caught my eyes and of course I had to try. Gosh…it was horrible horrible fake uni taste and even the spaghetti tasted like rubber. I was quite traumatized actually. How can a restaurant like that survive is a mystery.