Archive for May, 2006

だいこんや

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松花堂:おぼろ豆腐と湯葉、大根料理、お造り、玉子料理(温泉玉子)、魚料理(マグロホホ肉の唐揚げ南蛮風)、肉料理(地鶏オープン焼き木の子カレークリームソース)、炊き込みご飯(竹の子御飯)、汁椀、デザート、1500円。
An amazing bento, from left to right, top to bottom: tofu, sashimi, raddish with miso, hotspring egg, grilled chicken in mushroom curry cream sauce, fried tuna with vinegar and spring onion, comes with bamboo shoot rice and miso soup on the side. I saw other people ordering the cheaper lunch set with either fish or meat, and they are the same stuff as the fried fish and grilled chicken included in the bento but of course in bigger portion. Everything tasted great. Even the dessert, bavarois that tasted of toffee, was very very good!
だいこんや

手打ちそば酒席 ゆかり

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焼き魚定食、900円。The grilled fish was so juicy so nice!
ゆかり

霜月好日

0605021 003.jpg合鴨彩り丼、980円。Duck rice bowl. It came out like 5 minutes after I ordered, the duck was of course cold, but most of the restaurants in this office area are closed on Sunday so I was just glad to have somewhere to have a quick lunch at and no need to resort to fastfood. ^^;;
霜月好日

Trattoria Toy

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First visit. Bacon and peas and vegetables spaghetti, 1000yen. Cheap but taste so-so.
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0605020 007.jpg野菜とパンチェッタのリングィネ、1200円。
Second visit. Linguine with vegetables and pancetta. The place I wanted to go was closed on Sat and this place was just next door so I just tried it again. I made a mistake of ordering something very similar to the one I had before! But luckily this time the amount of ingredients was more generous and it actually tasted alright.
Trattoria Toy

白鷺堂本舗 (Shirasagido)

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丹波黒豆くず餅、青大豆くずまんじゅう。
Black bean kuzu mochi. Green bean kuzu manju. Very light and cooling!
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栗まんじゅう、あわ餅(白餡)。
Chestnut manju, the one cut open is red bean, the whole one is custard cream. Millet mochi, very chewy and has white bean paste inside.
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黒大豆くずまんじゅう、黒豆大福。
Black bean kuzu manju. Black bean mochi.
I bought the top two in an event at Seibu and oh my they don’t just look pretty but taste amazing! I went back on the next day and bought more, still very good, and went AGAIN on the following day to buy the last two.

0805160030(Updated in May 2008)Got these from Ueno Matsuzakaya.

白鷺堂本舗

ソウル亭

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カルビうどん、900円。Hmm, it is no good…there is no good Korean around this area?!

BRONX 神楽坂店

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かぼちゃグラタン、750円。Pumpkin gratin, it is okay. It looks like a bar but opens all day. It was daytime outside but so dark inside with dim spotlights, and the predominantly male customers were all smoking and drinking coffee and quietly reading, while the cook kept chattering with the two young waitresses…such a weird atmosphere. ^^;; I could see the kitchen from my seat and I saw the cook puting a raw egg on the plate and then into the microwave, which later went to the top of some curry fried rice, which was a customer’s lunch A. ^^;;