３６００円のディナーコースにて。本日の前菜：鴨のパテ。
Today’s appetizer: duck Pate.
アナゴのもち米とワイルドライス包み焼き、カレー風味のソース。
プラチナポークコンフィのロースト。
Sticky rice and wild rice wrapped in anago(eel), curry sauce.
(My choice)Roasted pork confit.
本日のデザート：パイナップルのクレームダンジュ。
キルシュアイスクリームのクレープ、温かい蜂蜜風味のアメリカンチェリー。
(My choice)Pineapple creme d’anjou.
Crepe with kirsch ice-cream and warm honeyed American cherry.
I was expecting a tiny bistro, but this place turned out to be quite spacious and comfortable, the atmosphere was lovely too. As my friend pointed out, most of the customers were girls. Dinner course is only 3600yen, so cheap!
Maison Cache-Cache
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Peach compote, with honey ice-cream and blueberry sauce. This is heaven(*o*). The peach was simmered in red wine, bottom layer was peach ice-cream with a mousse texture, even the cookie was delicious.
The chef went on a TV competition show and he made the luxurious version of this but he lost to the other guy…quite a surprise cos I thought this one was definitely higher standard. Anyway, due to his increasing publicity, his tiny dessert eat-in space always has a long waiting line which kinda puts me off. Luckily my friend, who is a BIG fan of this place, didn’t mind going with me so we went there after lunch. Both of us were expecting a line and prepared to wait, but there was no one waiting!! So happy!! Happier than winning a lottery!! (^^;;) Even happier still, after we enjoyed our desserts rather speechlessly, the chef himself came out and gave us free cherries!! He even talked with us for a while and he told us that he was going on another TV program where he will have to make a jumbo-size souffle in a camp and he is going to pick the berries from a field himself(^^;;).
Toshi Mandel Krone. An almond cream pie to take away, so delicious as well!
Toshi Yoroizuka
Peach Bellini. Appetizer: Kidney beans soup, cauliflower and beans(oily and sour), marinated rockfish(again oily and sour), fried hummus chip(quite good), ham, potato and cod paste with mayonnaise.
Two of us ordered two different pasta and the waitor himself suggested us to share and offered to divide for us. Of course we said yes and were grateful for the good service, though later we discovered they charged 10% service even during lunch time…so the pictures are both half portion. Pansoti with spinage, ricotta cheese and ham stuffing, walnut and butter sauce. The pasta skin is very nice, soft but sticky texture. Pappardelle with minced horse meat in red wine sauce. Tasted like beef to me(^^;;). With coffee included, about 3600yen per person…ouch. Well, I knew it was quite a poshy place. Even on a weekday afternoon, boiling hot temperature, it was packed with people, mostly girls, some even sat outside in the terrace…gosh. My friend overheard the two guys sitting next to us and one of them was a chef from a French restaurant…and my friend said they were listening to us when we talked about which restaurant is great which restaurant sucks…(^^;;)
Cascina Canamilla
A eat-with-chopstick Japanese-French fusion restaurant, where most of the customers are old ladies probably living nearby. We tried the 10 course dinner, 5500yen. Full written menu was not availbale and my memory is failing me so…just what I can still remember.
1: Fish(forgot what) with radish(I think).
2. Clockwise from top left: some fish rillette, marinated scallop, wasabi mousse, chicken liver, salmon, grilled butter turban shell.
3. Grilled scallop.
4. Cold white asparagus soup(I think…).
5. Petit foie gras rice bowl with brown rice. Was very happy when it came out but the foie gras was just so-so.
6. Onion flan. At first I thought: soup again? But it is like chawanmushi, nice but a bit salty and quite chinese-tasting. Wanted rice from here.
7. Sea bass, again quite salty, would be nice with rice.
8. Fruit tomato salad. Salad came out on the 8th course….the tomato was very sweet. Didn’t want rice anymore.
9. Roasted duck, sauce tasted like soy sauce. The aubergine roll with ratatouille at the back was cute.
10. Pear tart, melon sorbet, creme brulee, so-so.
Restaurant Momo
DADAのしっかりプリン、ごまのブランマンジェ、ライチと木苺のサイダー。
Caramel pudding and sesame seed blanc manger are alright, but lychee and raspberry cider is very good! The jelly on top is lychee and liqueur flavour, so yummy. An old-style Japanese house converted cafe. Can check out the interior here and here. The atmosphere is relaxing, and if you get to sit on the sofa you wouldn’t want to get up for hours, but unfortunately when I went there was some noisy construction work going on right in front of the cafe…well I didn’t have hours anyway. ^^;;
焼き餃子、５５０円。
The skin is thick but very chewy and nice! Big and cheap too!
でっかい餃子曽さんの店
ピンチョスとタコスのランチセット、８００円。Pintxos and Tacos lunch. Usually I won’t go to this kind of large capacity cafe dining, but my friend took me and the food turned out to be surprisingly good.
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