We had the 4725yen dinner course. The Bread is very good!
鴨のフォワグラと蕪のキャラメリゼ パルサミコソース。
スープ・ド・ポワッソン ルイユ添え。
Foie gras saute with turnip Caramélisée in Balsamico sauce. This is quite good.
Fish soup with Rouille(a paste made from olive oil and breadcrumbs and hot chile peppers apparently), grated cheese and croutons. Too many slices of croutons! They absorbed most of the soup and were simply too stomach-filling. The little amount of soup left to drink was too salty.
仔羊のロースの炭火焼き。
クスクスと仔羊のナヴァラン アリサ添え。
Charcoal-grilled lamb chop. The meat is soft, great charcoal smell.
Couscous and lamb. My friend’s choice is a good one. The ratatouille is sweet and very nice with the couscous. A big plate too. The two guys sitting next to us both ordered this dish so probably quite popular?
バナナのラム酒風味フランベとバニラアイス 温かいチョコレートソース。
フランボワーズのキャラメル クレープ包み。
Banana Flambées with rum, vanilla ice-cream and hot chocolate sauce. This is nice. Love the cookie around it, which goes perfectly well with the banana and the rum sauce.
Framboise caramel crepe. The custard cream inside the crepe is too sweet already, plus the caramel and raspberry sauce….I could only eat one.
A lot of customers were foreigners, and there was English menu available, though not as complete as the Japanese one.
Menu: 1, 2, 3.
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Archive for October, 2006
エビとレモングラス炒め、１０５０円。もち米、３５０円。
This place used to be “Thai Classic” but before I had a chance to try it, the owner changed and turned into another restaurant, also Thai. Went around 8pm and wanted fish, but all the fish were already sold out. I had the stir-fried prawn with lemon grass, which was very nice, refreshing lemongrass smell, lots of other ingredients including mushroom, cashew nuts, carrot, onion, bell pepper and two kinds of chilli. I requested for more spicy taste and it came out really hot, not tongue-numbingly hot though, until I tried to eat the chilli. ^^;; Glutinous rice was a bit hard and dry, should have ordered normal rice.
夢境そば（エビ、京湯葉、京風がんもどき、玉子焼き、青菜、筍）、１５５０円。
Mukyo-soba. Thought it was Kyoto-style soba and expected very mild and subtle tasting but the soup turned out to be very strong and salty. Still very nice with so many ingredients though.
鴨せいろ、１６００円。
Duck “seiro”. The soup was a bit salty and oily, not bad though cos it had strong duck flavour and very hot. Duck meat was a bit hard. The soba looked like it wasn’t cooked upon order. This place closes at 7:30pm and I went at around 6:30pm…maybe I went too late? I went late last time too, but I ordered soup soba which was hard to tell if the soba was premade or not.
夢境庵
粟ぜんざい。
Awa-zenzai - traditional Japanese sweet made from millet and red bean paste, served hot. The millet is made into very sticky paste, so nice!!!!!
梅園 (Umezono)
A new branch on the 7th floor of Takashimaya Nihonbashi. I think the awa-zenzai tastes better in the original shop in Asakusa.
Vegetables in marinade and sardine with olives on top. Quite a solid plate for a palate teaser. The foccacia is a little dry but alright.
青りんごで包んだ フォアグラのテリーヌ。
コルドネッティ 魚介のジェノヴェーゼソース。
Antipasto: Terrine of foie gras wrapped in green apple. Apple is sweet and foie gras is salty, my favourite combination! Though the foie gras is slightly soaked, probably because of the apple? A piece of smoked duck on the side which is quite dry.
Primo: Cordonetti with seafood genovese. The pasta has the chewy and elastic texture of Japanese yakisoba! ^^;;; Genovese is not the usual basil paste, but chopped fresh basil mixed with olive oil. Despite the unexpected taste and look, I like this dish!
山形牛のソテー。
口直し：ローズマリー、タイム、アニスのシャーベット。
Secondo: Yamagata beef saute. The sauce is just Balsamico and olive oil I think. The vegetables are great. The beef is fatless and not too soft, need a lot of chewing but it is not bad. My friend’s fish is nicer.
Sorbet of rosemary, thyme and anise. Very refreshing.
ババとキャラメルセミフレッド。
Baba with caramel Semi Freddo. It is very good! Not too sweet, the sponge is soaked with rum, the ice-cream is smooth. My friend’s simple Panna Cotta is absolutely delicious too. I am very impressed by the desserts here, as I always think desserts are boring in Italian restaurants. ^^;; Comes with espresso and little sweets, which are both nice. Lunch course is 3500yen. Glass wine is 900yen. Service charge is 600yen per table. Overall it was quite a satisfactory lunch, slightly salty was the general impression. In fact we both felt quite thirsty afterwards, but the level of saltiness was acceptable for me. This restaurant has only 4 tables and a capacity of 12 people at the most - a very small place even for Tokyo. About 10 minutes walk from the nearest Shimokitazawa station if you don’t get lost, which we did. ^^;; There is no cheaper lunch course than the one we ordered, probably part of the reason why we were the only customers during the entire lunch time even though it was a Saturday and the area near the station was crowded with people.
IL NIDO
レバ刺し。さつま揚げ。
Raw liver. Deep-fried fish cake.
卵焼き。
Egg roll with mentaiko. Soft and fluffy, very delicious!
白のもつ鍋(みそ)。赤のもつ鍋(しょうゆ)。
White “motsu” hotpot. Red “motsu” hotpot. White is miso, red is soy sauce, “motsu” is cow intestine. All very good! I like the white more. We added noodles to the soup which was heaven. Though I stank of garlic apparently but you simply don’t notice it yourself. ^^;; Everyone was saying this place is super popular and very difficult to book, which I am lucky not to have to do it myself. ^^;;
Two pics from my first visit to this place.
蟻月
本日のクレープ： ツナピザ＆ローストポーク。
Today’s crepe lunch: Tuna pizza crepe and roasted pork crepe. Omelette with ketchup, persimmon and ham, and salad on the side, comes with coffee, 750yen. The crepe is made from rye and soba flour hence the natural brown colour. The texture is sticky and soft, served hot, very good! Also got a corn bread to take away, which has cous-cous mixed in the dough apparently, also good. I was sight-seeing(^^;;) around Waseda university with friends and I did check beforehand where to eat lunch but most of the recommended places were ramen or curry, and we weren’t in the mood for ramen or curry, so I grabbed a fashionably-dressed student, which was plenty around(^^;;), and asked her for nice places to have lunch and she recommended us this place. Good choice! The university area is very nice and pretty, too bad it was raining and kinda cold that day that we couldn’t walk around more.
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