ラフランスタルト。
Pear tart. This dessert place is one station away from the bagel shop “Pomme de Terre”. I have walked that distance before and it felt really near, estimated 15~20 minutes at the most, so I dragged my friend there after the bagel lunch….but it felt soooooo far this time! When we sat down in the dessert place, we realised we had walked for 45 minutes…..The cakes were not bad but probably not worth the effort….oops….hoho….^^;;
Anglaise
Archive for July, 2006
ヴィシソワーズ。ドフィノワ（じゃがいものクリーム煮）と地鶏とズッキーニのグラタン、ほうれん草ベーグル、１０５０円。テイクアウト：黒糖ときなこ、コーヒーとレーズン、キャラメルチョコ、むらさき芋、レモンポム、チーズ胡椒、イチジク。
Back to this super delicious bagel place with a friend(see tag for old entry). We went there about 20 minutes before the shop opened at 12, the queue was shorter than last time, but unfortunately the people before us(about 10 people) were all going to eat-in and we couldn’t fit into the first round! Waiting for the second round would mean having to wait for at least an hour, and the shop staff refused to let us put down our names and perhaps wait in a coffee shop nearby or something….we hesitated but it was a long way there and stupid us, we didn’t prepare a Plan B….so we ended up waiting outside the shop, standing and starving and hot, staring at other people’s food through the window for an hour. ^^;; Potato soup came with the lunch set. I had the potato and chicken and zucchini gratin, which was alright. The salad however was very delicious. And of course the freshly baked spinach bagel, the thing we came for, hot from the oven, was very very good. Bought loads to take away too - black sugar and soybean flour, coffee and raisin, caramel and chocolate, taro, lemon apple, cheese pepper, and fig. But I think this will be my last time coming here…just too much effort. ^^;;
Pomme de terre
エッグズ・ベネディクト（サーモンと野菜グリル）、１４００円。Finally found a place that does egg benedict and someone willing to go with me! I was going to order 3 eggs, but the waitress said that would be too much, so I just got salmon and grilled vegetables and gave up spinach, but it turned out to be not that big afterall. Taste-wise….also pretty normal? The muffins, the eggs and the grilled vegetables were probably pre-made? Not that fresh, not that hot. Salad was not included and only grilled potatoes, a bit bland to finish. Hmm.
Good Honest Grub
焼き茄子と香味野菜の黒酢醤油うどん、８９９円。Udon with grilled aubergine and herb in black vinegar soy sauce. The aubergine was quite burnt and tasted bitter, but the udon and the herb were quite good.
特製つけめん、９００円。The original ramen shop is in Nakano and I have tried there before and it was unforgettably good. Unfortunately this branch in Ikebukuro has entirely different taste and frankly quite bad. Always long queue though.
Back again!(See tag) The same French-food-loving friend set up everything well in advance so I had been really looking forward to this meal for weeks.
Marinated salmon, with Caponata and Anchovy sauce. The salmon is fat rich and delicious enough on its own. Even better is to break the quail egg and eat the salmon with the yoke, or with the vegetables stew, or with the anchovy sauce.
Whisked fennel cream and sea urchin, bottom layer is fennel flan, the sauce on top is made from prawn heads. This is so delicious!! At first I thought sea urchin would be the main thing for this dish, but the taste and smell of the prawn is much stronger than the sea urchin. A very very heavenly dish nonetheless. In fact it is so impressive that even after many days I still crave to have it once more.
Summer organic vegetables, with summer truffle dressing. There are so many different kinds of vegetables, every single one is delicious. It is such a big plate too! Though you don’t get tired til the end.
“Loup en croûte, sauce Choron”, a traditional dish that very few restaurants make it apparently. My friend made a special request and the chef made once before to try and this is his second attempt. Basically it is sea bass pie, sandwiched between the fish meat is scallop mousse. The Choron sauce is like hollandaise sauce, colour is pink because of the tomato puree, also added are shallot and white wine and egg yoke, the taste is slightly sour and light and matching the fish well. One slice is big and everyone was full by that time, but it was so light that everyone finished easily.
Fruit salad with apple mango sorbet. Again many many different kinds of fruits and each spoon is a delight: peach sweet, rhubarb sour, medlar sour and melon sweet again…
The wine are all fantastic, especially the white, I don’t know anything about wine but the white wine I have in this restaurants are unlike anything I had before, not just a complement to the meal but outstanding on its own!
An amazing meal! Thank you Sinp-san!
３１００円のランチコースにて。渡り蟹のキッシュ。フォワグラのソテー、リゾット添え モリ－ユ茸のソース（＋６００円）。
Crab quiche - the crab and egg were on a piece of bread instead of the a pie…can it still be called quiche? (^^;;) Foie gras saute, with risotto and Morille mushroom sauce. The foie gras was watery and half-melted inside, probably wasn’t defrosted probably? The sauce was too sweet and too salty, and the risotto was soaked in that sauce…
ジャガイモの冷たいスープ。黒豚バラのポートワイン煮、カリッとスパイス焼き。グレープフルーツのハーブゼリーあえ、カシスのソルべ、フロマージュブラン添え。
Cold potato soup, with consomme jelly. Very creamy and very thick, good though. Simmered pork belly in Port wine. Supposed to be crisply grilled with spice, but was neither crispy nor spicy, just very sweet very salty, because the sauce again was too sweet and too salty. Fromage Blanc with Cassis sorbet, grape fruit and herb jelly. Normally I would find it too sour, but after an overdose of the heavy sauces, I found it very refreshing. (^^;;)
Bistro Juillet
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