Monthly Archives: June 2007

Liberal Table Cafe

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Salad with 5 Toppings, 580yen. Green peas potage, 380yen.
Dried curry set, 850yen. Comes with a small salad and drink(I had hot peach tea). Quite sweet curry with lots of raisins in it. Tastes healthy.

Whenever I feel like I am lacking vegetables I will come here. The salad bowl is huge and stomach-filling. The soup changes every week, mostly potage soup which is always a little too thick for some reason. Once they had minestrone and it was good. This place promotes detox diet, in which you basically just eat vegetables, fruits, and drink herb tea.
Liberal Table Cafe

Bondy （欧風カレー ボンディ）

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Very famous curry place. You have to walk through an old bookstore to get to the entrance.
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0703220080ビーフカレー、￥１４５０。 チーズカレー、￥１４５０。
Beef curry. Cheese curry. From two separate lunch visits. You can choose “hot”, “medium hot” and “sweet”. I had “sweet” for the beef and “hot” for the cheese. “Sweet” tastes fruity but still a bit spicy. “Hot” is not THAT hot, but less sweet. There is melted cheese on the rice. The potatoes come with the set….but who will need 3 potatoes with such a big plate of rice?! ^^;; Nice curry though I wish the price were cheaper.
Bondy

丼達

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スタミナ丼（ヨシダソース）、￥６００。サラダ、￥１００。
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Pork donburi with Yoshida sauce(actual thing displayed in the shop), 600yen. Plus salad, 100yen. Seems like Yoshida sauce is famous in US?? I have never heard of it….Anyway, tastes very junkfood. Pork is dry. 600yen donburi looks big but it is mainly rice with very little pork. You get double amount of the pork for an extra 150yen, triple for 300yen. Don’t think I will go back though.
丼達

鮨処 しみづ (Shimizu/Shimitsu)

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12600yen Omakase course. Octopus.
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Hirame(flatfish). Ika(Squid).
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Vinegar-pickled Hirame. Katsuo(Bonito).
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Maguro. Toro.
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Aji(Horse mackerel). Steamed Abalone.
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Kasugo. Torigai(shellfish).
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Forgot. Scallop.
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Prawn. Mirugai(shellfish).
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Vinegar-pickled Aji. Forgot.
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0705180119Anago. Egg. Shellfish soup.
A famous sushi place with only 8 counter seats. Located in an area where at night, mainly salarymen hang out. The chef is a big guy and can be intimidating af first, but he is very friendly and talks and smiles a lot. He let me take pictures of the sushi but my seat was right in front of him so it was quite embarassing, especially when there were so many of them. ^^;;; Wanted to jot down what we ate but just couldn’t in that situation…what I could recall afterwards might not be that reliable. The course included 18 sushi. And the rice for the sushi was so big(the fish was not small either), I was stuffed to my throat by the end. Other customers gave up after 15. The rice is strong with “red vinegar”, and there were 4-5 out of that 18 sushi that had the fish itself vinegar-pickled also, so it was a bit too much sour taste towards the end. Quality is high nonetheless, and good value considering how much food you get. You don’t have to order the omakase – you can choose what you like or request for a course with fewer sushi.
鮨処しみづ

Les Dix temps the TOTOKI (レディタン ザ・トトキ)

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9450yen dinner course(the “cheapest” in the menu).
Amuse-bouche. Bread is very good.
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土佐産天然真ダイのマリネとホワイトアスパラガスのムース。
プティポワと有機オニオンのカプチーの仕立て。
Marinated madai(bream) and white asparagus mousse.
Petit Pois(green peas) and organic onion cappuccino.
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軍鶏のローストと有機野菜。
Roasted Shamo and organic vegetables.
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Caramel pudding.
Strawberry parfait with pistachio ice-cream.
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Amuse-bouche ~ bread ~ appetizer ~ soup were all great, then the main dish shamo came and it was dry and the sauce tasted like yoshoku…it might be too much to ask that the whole course is “perfect” and you like every single dish, but you do wish that the one you don’t like isn’t the MAIN dish. ^^;;; The pre-dessert ~ dessert ~ petit fours are great, but the server said the pudding is orange-flavour yet no one out of 6 of us could taste any orange. The pistachio ice-cream in the parfait is super rich, though for a 10,000yen course I had expected something more fancy than a simple and rather small parfait. Also the half-melting chocolate stick was unnecessary. The Canelé from the petit fours is soft type, very good.

Sad thing is, the service is rather bad. Nothing rude, just very very cold and snobby, and the stuck-up waitress dropped the cutlery rather loudly twice throughout our meal….Heard from a friend who loves this place that you get much better dining experience sitting at the counter and talking to chef, who welcomes requests about the food. Like the front page of the menu lists all the recommended seasonal ingredients, and you can pick those you like, set a budget, and let the chef design a course for you on spot. Though if you sit in the counter you won’t be able to take pictures. We sat in the private room so we got away with it. ^^;;
Menu(J): 1, 2, 3.
TOTOKI