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天ざる、１０００円。かしわおろしぶっかけ（温）、７４０円。
Very famous shop for Sanuki(讃岐) udon - thick, firm and chewy type from Kagawa Prefecture. I visited twice and had the cold zaru udon with tempura, and the hot soup udon with Kashiwa(chicken) tempura and grated radish. Both are very good but I prefer the cold udon which has a firmer texture. The shop is very tiny and always very crowded.
すみた
ロースカツ定食。カキフライ。
Fried pork loin lunch set. Fried oyster. Not too oily, very good. The shop is clean too.
とんかつ 田
カレーライス、７８０円。ベトナムコーヒー、＋１００円。
Chicken curry rice is good. Lots of carrots. Vietnamese coffee is a little weak.
Saigon Restaurant
なめらかな卵、コンソメ、うずらの卵。
Dinner course 6800yen.
Amuse-bouche: Bottom layer is egg, topped with consomme jelly and half-cooked quail egg.
ノルウェーサーモンと冬野菜のモザイク。
イサキのポワレ、菜の花のソースで。
Norway salmon and winter vegetable “mosaic”. Beautiful and delicious.
Pan-fried isaki(grunt fish) with rape blossom sauce.
鶉のフォワグラ詰めロースト。
ココナツミルクバジルシード入りコーヒーゼリー。
Roasted quail stuffed with foie gras. There is a layer of cabbage between the foie gras and the quail.
Coffee jelly with coconut milk and basil seed. Very strong alcohol taste, very good!
クレームキャラメルとマスカルポーネのアイスクリーム。
Creme caramel and mascarpone ice-cream. The dessert is absolutely heaven.
Taste-wise probably a bit lacking in impact but no disappointing factors. Fish and meat dishes are a bit on the salty side. Desserts are wonderful. Bread is piping hot and keeps coming. Good service too. Location maybe a little hard to find and a little far from the nearest station.
Lachérir
Oden dinner! Very popular place, all counter seats and must reserve. You can only stay for 2 hours. Opens at 6pm which is too early for us so we booked for the second round from 8:30pm. 2 hours is quite enough for oden as the food comes quickly, though some of the stuff have run out already when we got there.
カキおでん。
はんぺん、いわしつみれ、さつ栗さん（さつま芋と栗）、さと丸さん（里芋とえび芋）。
Oyster oden.
Hanpen(bottom left), sardine tsumire(bottom right), satsuma taro and chestnut(top right), sato taro and ebi taro(top left). All are tasty! Especially love the oyster and the sweet chestnut one.
だいこん、餅きんちゃく、かぼ丸さん（かぼちゃ）、椎茸しんじょう、京がんも。
あんこ玉さん。
Clockwise from 12 o’clock: Daikon(radish), Mochi-kinchaku(Rice cake wrapped in tofu pouch. Standard oden but very nice!), pumpkin(with raisins in it!!!!), shiitake mushroom shinjo(also fish cake but has more fine and smooth texture), Kyo-gamo(Kyoto-style tofu patties with bits of vegetable).
Red bean cake, which is not sweet but savoury!! Very nice~.
ごまだれ ごますり 出世 うどん。
おこげさん（米）。
Sesame udon. You ground the sesame yourself, add it into the sweet miso sauce, mix it and pour it over the udon.
Grilled rice ball, slight salty, strong yukari(red shiso) taste.
Except the udon which is 1000yen, everything else is 300yen a piece. Maybe a little upscale for an oden place, but the atmosphere is casual and the madam is friendly and patient in explaining the menu. Half of the stuff are standard oden, but many are original in this shop. Not in pictures but fish roll with burdock root（こぼう天） is very good too.
Menu 1, 2. There is one more non-oden menu which I didn’t take picture of.
こなから
Nicolas is an unusual bakery which used to be this shabby and ugly little shop with no air-conditioning and dauntingly far from the city, yet it managed to attract fans from all over the country. I have visited a few times before, thanks to friends with cars. Now it has moved from the very obscure location to an American-ish mall, still not any closer to Tokyo. And to my mild disgust, the shop is right next to a massive supermarket, which has its own bakery too…
Used to be takeout only, but now they have a few tables and you can order drinks from the counter. The croissant, teriyaki chicken bread with mustard, and cheese bread were all freshly baked and still hot, which made us grateful for the eat-in space. Bought loads to take home too.
Nicolas
Back to this bakery which is absolutely lovely but unfortunately a tad too far from the city to visit often. The 1st floor bakery is always packed with people.
本日のオススメ： お魚のポワレ（金目鯛を使って焦がしバターとローストアーモンドの香ばしいソースで）。パンの盛り合わせとスープ付きで、１４００円。
Late lunch at the cafe on the 2nd floor.
Today menu: Pan-fried Kinmedai(Alfonsino), with burnt butter and roasted almond sauce. 1400yen set comes with a variety of bread and mushroom soup.
For take-away: Apple tart. Carrot and pork sandwich. Pepper pork and pineapple sandwich.
Needless to say, everything is delicious. Loved the apple tart!
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1950yen lunch set including dessert and drink.
コテキーノ。
Homemade sausage in soramame sauce.
パンペルデュ。
Side order not included in the lunch set: “Pain Perdu” - literally “lost bread” - was a simple breakfast of day-old French bread dredged in beaten eggs and pan-fried in butter(copied from internet).
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