薬膳大蒜焼肉盛り合わせ。カニクリームコロッケ・海老フライ付、９３０円。
Garlic yakiniku, crab cream croquette and fried prawn. The menu says the sauce for the yakiniku is prepared with sesame seed, garlic, ginger, spring onion and other spices. It is quite good, in a junk tasting sort of way. Comes with rice - which I find very very yummy I dunno why and end up eating too much of it - and soup. Though for a male-oriented restaurant, the portion is not as big as I expected.
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Archive for October, 2006
とんこつラーメン＋みそ＋得入り。
Tonkotsu ramen with miso and assorted toppings. The soup is thick but very good - surprisingly it is not the usual unbearably salty pork bone soup in other ramen places, but actually drinkable. The chashu(pork) is one of the best I have had in Ikebukuro. Only that the ramen is also one of the softest and most overcooked…^^;; Later I checked out other people’s reviews and it seems like the noodle is always that soft, and I wasn’t just unlucky. This place is very popular so always a looooong queue. Though when I went, I got a seat immediately, and after I sat down, a queue suddenly formed outside the shop. ^^;;;;
屯ちん
カプリチョーザ（いろいろのってる前菜サラダ）。
Salad with smoked salmon, omelette, salami, mozzarella and pate. Quite savoury.
４種のチーズソース ペンネ。バナナケーキ。ランチは１２６０円。
Penne with 4 different kinds of cheese. It looks plain but the cheese sauce is very rich. The penne is unfortunately overcooked…banana cake is so-so. Instead of plain water they serve you (despite diluted) iced peach tea.
La Croce
にぎりランチ、１２６０円。
The simmered tuna appetizer and the clam miso soup tasted better than the sushi which were not very fresh….
鮨幸
プッタネスカ（オリーブ、ケッパー、アンチョビのトマトソース）、１０５０円。レモンチーズタルト、＋２１０円。
Puttanesca(olive, caper, anchovy in tomato sauce). Lemon cheese tart. The tomato sauce tastes very canned tomatoes(^^;;) but hearty and comforting and in big portion - like eating at home. The tart is just so-so though. So many kids and seniors even on a weekday’s lunch time, probably living nearby?
Pesce
Moussaka - minced lamb, aubergine, tomato, onion, green pepper and egg. Came with salad, mushroom soup, and butter rice, 880yen. Chai, +100yen. Somehow the menu says minced beef, but the distinct smell of the meat I was served had got to be lamb. The Moussaka was only lukewarm when served - it came really quickly - otherwise it was not bad. The mushroom soup was way too salty though.
More photos: 1, 2.
ANTEP
New open cake shop in Ikebukuro yeah! Marron mont blanc, 450yen. With coffee, +230yen. It is marron cream, on top of fresh cream, on top of marron, on top of a tart with pastry crumbs around. Not a big fan of meringue so glad that there isn’t any. The taste of the marron doesn’t stand out but overall quite good. The tart is slightly sticky, I like!
More photos: 1, 2.
丹波栗のモンブラン、６５０円。
“Tanba” chestnut mont blanc. I can’t resist anything labelled “limited sale”…^^;; The chestnut is much richer than the Marron mont blanc I had last time. Though instead of a very nice tart, the bottom part of this one is a slightly soggy biscuit.
紫芋のモンブラン。フランボワーズのモンブラン。
Taro Mont Blanc. Framboise Mont Blanc.
The taro cream is good, with cream and chocolate sponge cake underneath. The framboise one is a bit sweet, with sponge cake, cream and raspberry mousse underneath.
Pâtisserie Atelier de Rêve Boutique Mont-Blanc
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