穴子天せいろ、１５７０円。Lots of varieties of soba in the menu, want to go back and try the others too.
Archive for April, 2006
越前おろしそば、７００円。Got attracted by the name “soba cafe” and thought it was a girly trendy place…turned out to be a small bland soba place with only businessmen who were all smoking…though the madam was nice and shifted me to a corner with less smoke.
Cake set at the lounge of a hotel, 1200yen. I chose Mont Blanc, the chestnut is inside instead of outside, very good but tinnnnnnnny!! ^^;;
前菜盛り合わせ：牛肉煮こごり、鴨の燻製、くらげ、メンマ、フルーツトマト。
Appetizer plate, dunno how to translate…beef pate-ish thing was nice, smoked duck had pork paste on top. Very good.
たっぷり野菜の棒々鶏、エスプーマソース。フカヒレ入りカブのポタージュスープ。
Shredded chicken with sesame mousse. Shark fin raddish potage soup.
三浦の春キャベツと刻み豚耳入り、コラーゲン餃子。なまこ、フレッシュ筍、千寿葱の煮込み。
Pork ear dumplings. Sea cucumber, bamboo shoot and onion.
車エビと、ブロッコリーとカリフラワー、X.O.醤炒め。和牛ホホ肉の老酒煮込み。
Prawn, broccoli and cauliflower, X.O. sauce. Beef cheek meat chinese wine stew.
中華パン。牛肉と無農薬フリルレタスの炒飯。
Beef and lettuce fried rice. Love it.
杏仁風味のブリュレ。杏仁豆腐。
Almond brulee, lychee sorbet, with tapioca. Almond tofu.
Additional comments: Five of us to share. The food is not very typical chinese, especially the shredded chicken that comes with so much salad. Taste is very light, little salt, little oil, but the sauce is thick and heavy. About 6000yen per person.. proper chinese food in Japan is not cheap really.
龍圓
味噌らーめんにオールスターをトッピング、１２００円。Miso ramen. It is good, soup not too salty, pork very soft, a bit too much beansprout though.
黒兵衛
ウズラのロースト、レンズ豆スープ。
Cheese puff. Roasted quail and Lentil peas soup.
エスカルゴ詰めたホロホロ鳥。イチゴのクラフィティー。
Guinea fowl stuffed with escargot. Strawberry Clafoutis.
A restaurant owned by a famous sommelier apparently. Dinner course is 3990yen, one bottle of wine is also 3990yen. Cheap certainly, but the food is no good and the portion tiny. Even the wine…hmm.
Restaurant S
新人参のクリームスープ。Carrot cream soup.
イシモチのポワレ オマール海老風味のクリームソース。赤いフルーツのスープに浮かべたフレッシュチーズのクレームダンジュ。
Filet d’ Ishimochi poele sauce creme de homard(copied from the menu, err, something like: pan-fried fish with prawn cream sauce). Creme d’anjou accompagnee de soupe aux fruits roges(fruit soup and fresh cheese cream something…^^;;). Lunch set is 1500yen, dessert is plus 500yen. I like the service here, very efficient in attending to your needs - water, extra portion of bread etc, but at the same time not bothering you while you eat at peace. The restaurant is inside the huge Ueno station compound and the station was so crowded and busy on a weekend afternoon. I went early so I got a seat immediately, but the queue started forming outside the closed door while I ate, and by the time I finished, the queue was unbelievably long with dozens of people. I mean this is not a ramen shop where people eat quickly, but each table probably stays for more than an hour….I wonder how long those people in the queue would have to wait. But even in such a busy time and I was alone, the atmosphere inside the restaurant was relaxed.
Brasserie L’ecrin
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