カニと野菜の包み揚げ”クラブポットスティッカー”、レモンとショウユのソース。
Dinner at a restaurant serving California cuisine(The name card says “Tokyo Internation Cuisine”). Very tiny place at the basement, basic decor and very quiet – could be a little claustrophobic at first. Check out the interior here.
The little samosa(potato as stuffing I think) and prawn are complementary appetizer which is nice. Two of us chose from the a la carte menu and shared 1 appetizer, 1 risotto and two meat dishes. The service staff offered to split the dishes for us, so all the pictures are half portion, except the risotto which we had to cut it ourself.
Crispy fried crab pot stickers on chopped vegetables salad. Simple but quite good.
ロンバルディア産タレッジオチーズのリゾットケーキと小海老のソテー、温製チェリートマトのサルサ。
Lombardia taleggio cheese risotto cakes with sauteed shrimp, oregano and hot plum tomatoes salsa. Risotto cake…is just risotto. Quite spicy. Portion tiny.
霧島産”ＳＰＦ”ポークとピックルスにしたピメント、スペイン産バルディオンブルーチーズと赤ワインソース。
メキシカンスタイル仔羊のストロガノフと緑トマトのソテー、ハラペーニョチリクリーム添え。
Chargrilled SPF Kirishima pork with pickled pimientos, and Spanish Valdeon blue cheese and red wine sauce. The pork is okay, love the blue cheese.
Mexican lamb stroganoff with pan-fried green tomatoes, tortillas salad with jalapeno cream. Very spicy and a little salty. We both craved rice while eating this. The meat is tender.
We didn’t order dessert because the friend who told me about this place said the dessert is expensive(800yen~) and very small portion so not so worth it. With a glass of champagne, it is 5000yen per person. The food is not bad, though taste-wise the food doesn’t leave much impression on me. The dinner menu has rather limited choices: 1, 2.
RELLENO SUGAWARA
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Kitchen Check (キッチン チェック)
オムライス、９００円。
Omurice is very nice! The egg is not the half-cooked fluffy runny kind, but still nice. The veggy on the side is a bit oily though.
Kitchen Check
Tokyo tasty place k-chacha
プチパスタ＋お肉料理のセット、１３５０円。デザート＋コーヒー、１５０円。
渡り蟹のトマトクリームパスタ。
豚肩ロースのソテー、イタリアン風ジェノヴァソース（古代米付き）。
A lunch set consists of salad and appetizer, a small pasta, a meat/fish dish and rice, 1350yen. With an extra 150yen, you get dessert and coffee too. Meat dish is pork shoulder meat saute in pesto sauce. Pasta is spaghetti with watarigani(crab) in tomato cream sauce. Dessert is gateau chocolat. So much food! Double carbs! Even the dessert is such a big piece. Taste not bad too.
k-chacha
Restaurant Cherive (シェリーヴ＠目白)
Have been trying to go to this French restaurant for lunch twice by myself but both times I was turned away because it was full even I went on weekdays. So I booked in advance and dragged a friend to go with me. Like before, it was packed, with many happy and loud ladies.
サバのタルタル仕立てのリエット。
白金豚トマト煮こみ、カレー風味。林檎のタルトとマンゴーアイス。
Rillette of mackerel and tomato and black olives. Tastes just like tuna.
Platinum pork simmered in tomato and curry. Mashed potato and lentils underneath. Very yoshoku-feel. Curry taste non-existent.
Apple tart with mango ice-cream.
Food is a bit mediocre. Very cheap though – lunch course is 2000yen. Glass wine is 500yen~.
Lunch menu here(Japanese).
Restaurant Cherive
田園調布 食堂廣田 (Hirota)
Christmas dinner at a low-profile restaurant with 2 friends. Reservation is via email only. My friend, who had been there before, told me that the chef might not exactly be that easy-going, so I asked the only waiter there whether I could take pictures of the food or not, and he was very friendly and told me to go ahead. I was still unsure about using flashlights even though it was pitch dark inside, hence the dark pictures. The chef came out of the kitchen when we were leaving and he seemed friendly though. The Christmas dinner course with all-you-can-drink champagne and wine, was 10,000yen per person. A very small place and only 3 groups of customers that night.
イベリコ・ベリョータ。チョリソ。
Iberico ham and chorizo. The bread is imported from France, says the waiter.
車海老と大根 クリーム煮込み。
ホロホロ鶏とフォアグラ フランスキノコの香り。
Kuruma Prawn with radish in cream sauce.
Guinea fowl and foie gras in mushroom and truffle sauce.
鴨胸肉のロースト 林檎とバターと蜂蜜。
Roasted duck breast with apple, in butter and honey.
The chocolate cake, not baked by the chef, is the birthday cake for other customer, who generously shared it with all of us. The chef made us sing birthday song for him. ^^;;
The food is very good. A lot of meat. I like the roasted duck the most even though it is a bit sweet. The prawn dish reminds me of fried prawns with mayonnaise from those Hong Kong style cafe. The guinea fowl one tastes very chinese, despite the French-ish ingredients. This place is not exactly a French restaurant, the chef cooks all kinds of food and you can make your request.
廣田
五十番 (Gojuban)
汁なし極太坦々麺、１０００円。
Very thick tantan noodles without soup. It is so good!! The thick noodles are soft and chewy and go so well with the minced meat and very spicy chilli oil. I had the normal tan tan noodles with soup here before and didn’t like it, but the no-soup and thick noodles version is delicious! This is only available at dinner and weekend.
排骨坦々麺、１３００円。
First lunch visit. The soup is spicy and rich and nice but the noodles are too soggy and the fried pork is too hard and stale….
黒豚の特製肉まん。
Special Nikuman.
辛味噌肉まん、４２０円。あんまん、３１５円。
Spicy miso nikuman. Anman(sweet red bean).
肉まん、３１５円。ピリ辛肉まん、４２０円。
Original nikuman. Spicy nikuman. Original is the best!
五十番(Gojuban)
Ristorante da Nino (リストランテ・ダ・ニーノ＠乃木坂)
Lunch at a much hyped Sicilian restaurant.
Cute tableware. The homemade bread is very good.
前菜の盛り合わせ:
自家製アランチーニ、ミートソース入りサフランライスコロッケ。
築地直送、本日のカルパッチョ（鱒） パンテッレリア産ケーパー。
いわしのインボルティーニパン粉焼き。
ブロッコリ、レーズンの入った卵焼き。
パスタ： ボンゴレビアンコ。
Appetizer:
Arancini.
Trout carpaccio with caper.
Sarde a beccaficu: stuffed sardines with breadcrumbs.
Baked omelette with broccoli.
Pasta:
Vongole Bianco. Tastes a bit boring, great al dente though.
お魚料理： 真鯛のオレンジソテー。
デザート： ズッパイングレーゼ。
Fish: Red sea bream saute with orange. Rather bland…
Dessert: Zuppa Inglese.
Special lunch course is 3800yen. A glass of champagne and mineral water, came up to 5200yen. The Japanese waitress is friendly and helpful, even split the bill for each of us without our asking(some of us ordered different courses). The Italian manager however is a bit of a snob. The decor is cute but quite cramp inside. A bit overpriced given the quality. I guess someone has to pay for the posh location.
Ristorante da Nino