カリブサラダ。
Caribbean salad. The salad dressing in this restaurant is supposed to be very famous. Forgot to take picture of it but a very big bottle of dressing for you to add freely. Very nice garlic flavour, healthy-tasting that you can add a lot without feeling salty or oily.
ソフトシェルクラブのイタリアクレープ手巻き。仔羊のスペアリブ炭焼き。
Soft-shell crab Italian crepe roll. Two kind of sauces, one is mayonnaise-based, the other is like Peking duck sauce…the whole process of wrapping felt like eating Peking duck too. Charcoal-grilled lamb sparerib, juicy but very salty.
いかすみスープのスパゲッティ。ゴルゴンゾーラクリーム ニョッキ。
Squid ink soup spaghetti - this is no good. Gnocchi with gorgonzola cream sauce - gnocchi is nice but sauce extremely salty.
Seems like a family restaurant type of hangout place for the locals. Casual, cheap, big portion, taste-wise a bit on the strong and salty side.
CHIANTI
Archive for November, 2006
パスタ２種盛り合わせ： 挽肉とアスパラのトマトソーススバゲッティ、サーモンとズッキーニのクリームソースペンネ。
Spaghetti with minced meat and asparagus in tomato sauce, and penne with salmon and zucchini in cream sauce. Came with appetizer, bread and coffee, 1050yen. Food was not too exciting but it filled me. The restaurant I wanted to go was full so just went next door for a quick lunch.
Shark
野菜天おろし ぶっかけうどん、＋するめいかの白子天、１０９０円。
Bukkake udon with vegetable tempura and squid roe tempura. Love the hand-made udon, sticky and chewy. Vegetable tempura is nice too but the squid roe is bitter and dry. Very slow on the delivery, I ordered a drink but they forgot, and didn’t give me water until I begged them, but they were nice enough to let me, being alone, take up a table for 2 instead of a counter seat surrounded by salarymen. And it is very cheap and location very convenient.
かがり火
金沢和音(池袋東武)： かぼちゃ餅（道明寺）、つき餅（つぶあん）、栗大福。
Pumpkin mochi(pumpkin paste inside), Tsuki mochi(mochi freshly made from rice-pounding, lightly salted red bean on top), and chestnut daifuku. All are sticky and nice. The two mochi have harder texture while the daifuku has very soft skin.
銀座かずや
A very popular Japanese sweet which gets sold out quickly - people queue up outside the shop before it opens apparently. The fresh ones are probably only sold in the original shop in Ginza, but my friend got the packed version in a department store. The matcha taste is so strong and bitter, which I like a lot, the texture is smooth and sticky.
ふるや古賀音庵
粟だんご。大福。
Dango with corn paste on top is nice, very sticky and chewy. Daifuku with red bean paste is okay.
鎌倉源吉兆庵
栗雅楽： 栗餡を二層のしぐれで包み込んだ。
嘉千栗： 蜜漬けした栗を栗きんとんで包んだ。
Two sweets made from chestnuts. Not really my favourite…
扇屋
More chestnut sweets. The one on the left has chestnut paste and red bean inside, better than the one on the right, which I can’t recall the taste at all…
三陸産カキのカルパッチョ ケッカソース。
Full course lunch is 3500yen(no tax, no service charge).
Focaccia with rosemary.
Oyster carpaccio, Checca Sauce. The oyster is a bit salty, but the sauce has nice citrus flavour.
サルデーニャ産カラスミのフェデリーニ。
北イタリアン伝統パスタ アニョロッティ。
Fedelini with dried salted tuna roe. Spicy with real hot little chilli in it. Lots of seafood like scallops, prawns, clams, fish meat. Love the fish taste!
Agnolotti - traditional North Italian pasta apparently. Smaller than the usual ravioli, stuffed with pork belly and cheese. Green because of the spinach mixed in it.
スペイン産イベリコ豚のロースト。
Roasted Iberico pork. Fat and meat nicely balanced, very juicy. The sauce is made from eshallot and pork stock and something else I couldn’t catch when the waiter explained. Very delicious too. Actually I like the meat dish better than the pasta, which is usual for me in an Italian restaurant.
Lunch set comes with a small coffee. Dessert is optional.
Lunch menu(Japanese only): 1, 2.
La Saetta
硯家南池袋店(Suzuriya Minami Ikebukuro-ten)
豚肉うどん、￥７７０。
Pork udon(hot). Udon is not bad though the pork meat is hard. For a simple bowl of udon, I did have to wait for a very long time even though the restaurant was pretty empty. This udon place has two restaurants which are only a few minutes walk from each other.
硯家 本店(Suzuriya Honten)
だし巻き玉子、３５０円。天ぷらざるうどん、８４０円。
Honten has better seating and better service. Had egg roll and tempura zaru udon. The egg roll and the udon are so-so, but the tempura is not bad - huge slices of aubergine, pumpkin, shishitou(small green pepper), prawn and bell pepper, all freshly fried. Very thick flour coating but it is crispy. 840yen for a tempura udon is very cheap too.
肉ぶっかけうどん＋炊き込みご飯セット。
Beef bukkake udon and takikomi rice, 900yen. I thought bukkake udon usually has only a bit of sweet soya sauce to mix with the udon, but this one basically is soup udon, and since I ordered cold version, the soup was cold….I was chilled to the bones eating it. And the beef was too hard and tasteless and I left most of it. The noodles itself was okay though. And the portion is massive. I guess I ordered the wrong thing for the weather. The takikomi rice was good.
トントロ串、豚しそチーズ、ロールキャベツ、鳥だんご、大根。
On a stick: fatty pork, pork with shiso and cheese. Oden: cabbage roll, chicken meatball, and radish. All 150yen each. First time going to this kind of drinking place by myself at night…circled the shop three times before summoning enough courage to go in. ^^;; But once you are in, have a drink, you do get quite relaxed because even though 100% of the customers are salarymen, nobody really cares about you and you can just read, or watch TV, and eat quietly. I should do this more often~
Mr. Rosa
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