天とじそば、１０５０円。
Soba with tempura and egg. I don’t why I ordered it, I hate my tempura soaked in soup…^^;;
翁庵
Monthly Archives: April 2007
La butte boisée （ラビュット・ボワゼ＠奥沢）
Like visiting someone’s house! Located in a residential area, about 10 minutes walk from the station if you don’t get lost, which you probably will…
Lovely waiting room. We got a table next to the window with a garden view. Too bad it was raining but still very pretty.
今日のリエット：玉葱と大根、粒マスタード、鴨、リコッタチーズ。
くま笹ロール、胚芽のバゲット、青海苔のパンなど。
Rillette: Onion and radish, mustard, duck, Ricotta cheese.
Bread: Kumazasa(herb) roll, rice bran baguette, seaweed bread etc.
Very fancy but not that tasty…
フランス産ホワイトアスパラとイイダコのコンフィと本マテ貝のマリネ ベーコンと木の実のヴィネグレット。
氷見の寒ブリのグリエ フキノトウのキャラメリゼ仕立て エシャロットのシェリービネガーのソース。
White asparagus, Iidako(octopus) confit, hon-mategai(clam) in marinade, bacon and nuts in vinaigrette. We were told to lift the plastic tube thing and mix the food. The sauce around the plate is pumpkin. Kurogome(black rice) risotto in the middle, and some fried sakura prawn here and there. A bit Japanese feel.
Grilled kan-buri(winter yellowtail), fuki-no-tou caramélisée, eshallot in sherry vinegar sauce. This is 99% Japanese…I couldn’t stop thinking about rice and chopsticks while I ate it.
ノルウェー産仔羊の背肉のブリック包み ベニエ仕立て野生の野菜 スピラル風。
Lamb chop, lamb meat wrapped Pate Brick and vegetables. The famous spiral plate! But I never expected that it would be used to serve the main dish…very difficult to eat with fork and knife! Taste-wise, it is 99% chinese. Even the sauce tastes like oyster sauce…what the hell…give me some rice!!
フランボワーズとマンゴーと洋梨のパズル風 青リンゴ仕立て。
三島産のフレッシュハーブティー。
Framboise(mousse) and mango(mousse) and pear(ice-cream), puzzle style. This is the dessert for a 5900yen lunch course? You’ve got to be kidding me…
The nicest thing in the whole course is the fresh herb tea, which is an extra 350yen. My impression was that: go for the lovely environment and the arty presentation but don’t go for the food or service. Though some of my eating buddies said that they had very nice food(not nouvelle/chinois/japon whatever but proper French food) when they went. So maybe I was just unlucky…
La butte boisée
Restaurant Maison de Famille＠要町
ランチ２１００円。
長ネギとブリ･ド･モーのグラタン。
仔羊のクネル、クミンシード風味。
Lunch is 2100yen.
Long leek and Brie de Meaux gratin. A bit oily.
Lamb quenelle with cumin seed. Bottom layer is tomato and mushroom; ground lamb meat in the middle; onion and cheese and cumin on top; basil oil sauce and potato gratin on the side. The tomato gets quite watery and a bit too much basil oil, but overall it is okay.
林檎の赤ワイン煮のカスタードケーキ、シナモン風味、いちごのケーキ、ヨーグルトのシャーベット。
Custard cake with apple simmered in red wine. Strawberry cake. Yogurt sorbet. The desserts are so-so.
Taste-wise it is nothing special. They keep giving you bread which is not warm but still quite good. The restaurant is right next to an university though the price range seems to keep the students away. The table next to me was a bunch of professors and office staffs. I remember this place used to be a cheap bistro but has changed to a proper French restaurant.
Maison de Famille
Kanda Yabusoba (かんだやぶそば)
春野菜てんぷら。せいろうそば。
Spring vegetables tempura. Seiro soba.
そば、茶そばカステラ。
Soba and green tea soba kasutera.
I was told that this soba place is very famous. Went on a weekend and it was packed with tourists taking photos of the old Japanese house. Later realised that this place is introduced in many tourist guides as “Probably Tokyo’s most famous soba shop”….all these years living in Tokyo and I never heard about this place. ^^;;; The spring vegetables are delicious. But the soba is nothing special I thought…plus the pretty normal-tasting kasutera, it costed me 2150yen. Quite expensive!
かんだやぶそば
The Crescent （クレッセント）
An old French restaurant which has been around for ages. The “cheapest” lunch course was 8000yen. (N.B. This place has stopped doing lunch now)
フォワグラのムース。
Foie gras mousse. Rich-tasting.
Bread is warm and so delicious that I had three.
オマール海老のサラダ仕立て。
カブのクリームスープ。
Lobster salad. Very fresh lobster.
Turnip soup.
アンコウのポワレ パルサミックのグラッサージュ。
温かいチョコレートケーキ。
Pan-fried Anko(angler fish) with balsamico vinegar sauce.
Warm chocolate cake and vanilla ice-cream. Warm chocolate sauce at the centre.
プティフール。
Petit fours. The sugar-coated little tomatoes are very nice. Madeleine are warmed.
A cute box for us to take home the little sweets that we couldn’t finish. So cute!
Overall the food is not bad, but you basically get your money’s worth from the classic interior and nice atmosphere.
The Crescent
La Lettera (ラレッテラ)
ヤリイカ、ホタテ小柱、じゃがいものアラビアータ。
Arrabbiata with squid, little scallop and potato. Quite good! Big portion. Even the salad is big. This place is pretty new. Strangely it is not crowded even at lunch time.
La Lettera
伊酒家 POLPO
ナスと鴨のミートソース、アサリとインゲン豆のペペロンチーノ、１０５０円。
An Italian restaurant or Izakaya? Specialised in octopus. Too bad the day I went they had no octopus in their lunch menu(it changes everyday). Well I am not a big fan of octopus. Spaghetti with aubergine and duck meat sauce + clam and kidney bean peperoncino, 1050yen. Taste OK. Very tiny place with cute octopus decor everywhere. The staff were laughing when I tried to take pics of the octopus dolls…so embarassing…^^;;
伊酒家 POLPO