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The Seven’s House (セブンスハウス)

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An Irish pub inside Gakushi Kaikan(学士会館) which serves yoshoku at lunch time.
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牛フィレ丼、￥１４００。しらす明太子丼、￥１２００。
Beef fillet rice bowl. Very good! The braised beef is lean and non-greasy yet very soft. The sauce(probably the juice from the beef?) is tasty to eat with the rice. Comes with pickles, and very nice clam miso soup and coffee.
Boiled shirasu and mentaiko rice bowl. Eaten with ponzu and raw egg. Simple but good.
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カキフライ、￥１２００。カレーライス、￥１０００。
Fried oyster - seasonal menu.
Curry rice - the old fashioned Japanese kind which is thick, sweet(from melted vegetables) and not a bit spicy.
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ハンバーグランチ、￥１２００。的鯛のムニエル、￥１２００。
Hamburger is just okay. Meuniere of Matoudai. The fish is a bit dry and salty, and soaked in too much butter.
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ハヤシライス、￥１０００。
Both are Hayashi rice. For some reason the weekday version(left) has more ingredients than the holiday version(right)…
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0804300160海老フライと昔コロッケ、￥１２００。パスタランチ、￥１１００。
Fried prawn and potato croquette lunch is very good! Quite huge portion too. Pasta lunch is just ordinary tomato sauce with clams.

Very busy with salarymen and OLs during lunch hours. Drink is included in the price. The service is good and I like the comfortable window seats a lot, except for the one time I sat next to a chain-smoker…
Lunch menu(J) here.

The Seven’s House
Add: 3-28 Nishiki-cho, Kanda, Chiyoda-ku
Tel: 03-3292-0881

Restaurant Latin (レストラン ラタン)

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A French restaurant inside Gakushi Kaikan(学士会館).
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サーモンマリネサラダ。仔羊の煮込み。
First lunch visit. Appetizer: Salmon marinade salad. Main: Simmered lamb.
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With dessert and coffee, 1500yen.
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0806030046サーモン腹身の燻製サラダ　バルサミコ風味。仔羊の香草パン粉焼き。
Second lunch visit. Appetizer: Smoked salmon salad with Balsamic sauce. The salmon belly is hot and very fatty. Main: Grilled Baby lamb chop(very tender) with herb and breadcrumbs. Unfortunately both dishes are a bit too salty.

By coincidence the lunch menu was salmon and lamb for both times(one whole year apart) I visited this old-fashioned style French restaurant. Customers were mostly old ladies and old gentlemen. Service is formal and extremely attentive.
Lunch menu(J) here.

Restaurant Latin
Add: 3-28 Nishiki-cho, Kanda, Chiyoda-ku
Tel: 03-3292-0881

菩提樹 (Bodaiju)

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on June 26, 08
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A yoshoku/tonkatsu place located next to Tokyo dome and kourakuen amusement park. Very spacious with forest-ish wooden decor(in a theme park sort of way).
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Pickles. A massive bowl of salad. Other than the yuzu and soy sauce dressing on the table, there are three types of salad dressing(menu) you can request for free: sesame seed and miso, grated vegetables, sour plum shiso and mayonnaise. I like sesame seed one the most.
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0706220050黒毛和牛ハンバーグ定食、￥２１００。
“Black-haired” wagyu hamburger steak set, 2100yen. Also came with beansprout. The waiter rolled out the huge hotplate on a wagon, poured the demi-glace sauce and cut the hamburger in front of you. Rice is mixed with green shiso(aojiso). Salad, rice and miso soup are all refillable.

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３種盛り定食、￥１５００。
Wagyu hamburger, crab cream croquette and fried prawn.
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特製カツカレー、￥１５００。牛ステーキ定食、￥１６００。
Special katsu(cutlet) curry. Curry sauce is a bit salty but the pork loin katsu is nice.
Beef steak is soft and tender, very good!
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てごねかつ定食、￥１２６０。替わりかつ丼、￥１５００。
Minced pork katsu is delicious!
Donburi with pork katsu, tororo(grated yam), pickled veggy. All the ingredients are seasoned so the salt content sort of adds up and overall a bit salty.
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海老カツ丼、￥１２００。豚ハンバーグ定食、￥１３００。
Donburi with prawn katsu, veggy and half-cooked egg. The prawn katsu is very good.
Pork hambuger(with grated radish topping) actually tastes better than the more expensive beef hamburger.
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石鍋焼きかつ丼（ロース）、￥１５００。盛り合わせフライ定食（串かつ、カニコロッケ）、￥１５００。
Donburi with pork katsu in a hot stone pot. The staff pours the soup to the katsu(also udon at the bottom) and you add the raw egg and seaweed yourself. Choose it only if you like katsu soaked in soup…
Assorted fry: Kushi-katsu(kushi means skewer) with pumpkin, shishitou pepper, onion and pork. Crab cream croquette.

Overall the food is good. Service very friendly. Opens on Sunday and holidays. Only thing is there is no non-smoking seats. The sister restaurant Katsu Kichi next door is non-smoking at lunch time and the menu is similar.

菩提樹 (Bodaiju)
Add: 1-14-3, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tel: 03-3818-1020

柳屋 (Yanagiya)

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Taiyaki shop established in 1916. I have passed by many times and not for a single time a long queue didn’t form there(even in pouring rain). Only twice I managed to muster up enough patience to wait but unfortunately I was disappointed both times. The crust was not crispy and half(2 out of 4) of the taiyaki I got were kinda lopsided, with too much flour lumped to one side. I think I prefer “Nezu no Taiyaki” for crispy crust and “Naniwaya” for nice charcoal smell(see tags for related posts).

柳屋 (Yanagiya)
Add: 2-11-3, Ningyocho, Nihonbashi
Tel:03-3666-9901

神田達磨 (Kanda Daruma)

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Left pic is goma(sesame seed) taiyaki. Right pic is regular taiyaki. Very interesting shape! Though I am not so fond of eating such a big crust(I prefer a thin crispy crust with lots of red bean paste inside).
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0808060056Mitarashi Dango and softcream with sweet red bean at the bottom. Both are just okay.

神田達磨(Kanda Daruma)
Add: 2-1 Ogawamachi, Kanda, Chiyoda-ku
Tel: 03-6803-1704

Bon Viveur (ボンビブール 海)

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アトランティックサーモンとポテトのハーブクリームソース、￥１０００。
Spaghetti with Atlantic salmon and potato in herb cream sauce. Lunch set includes salad, soup and coffee.
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きのことチキンのピリ辛トマトソース、￥１０００。
Spaghetti with mushroom and chicken in spicy tomato sauce.
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具たくさんパエリアランチ、￥１０００。
Paella lunch.
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真っ赤なカルボナーラ、半熟玉子のせ、￥１０００。
“Red” carbonara with half-cooked egg.
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エリンギ茸とアンチョビのペペロンチーノ、￥１０００。
Eringi mushroom and anchovy peperoncino.
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霧島黒豚肩ロースのソテー、和風赤ワインガーリックソース、￥１０００。
Saturday lunch menu. Pork loin saute in Japanese-style red wine garlic sauce. Very yoshoku feel.

Popular lunch spot for salarymen and OLs. The slightly scary-looking staff(mostly guys) are unbelievably polite and attentive. I took pics of all the salads but actually I could never finish them because they are always drowned in too much dressing…and I always forget to tell the staff “no dressing please”.
Menu(J): 1, 2, 3, 4.
Bon Viveur

オキドキ (Okidoki)

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on June 23, 08
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サイコロステーキ定食、￥９００。
Steak lunch.
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デミグラスときのこのホイルハンバーグ、￥９００。豚の生姜焼き定食、￥８００。
Hamburger with demi-glace and mushroom. Totally burnt at the bottom….
Pork Ginger. The pork is hard…
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0805140009和牛ハンバーグ(200g)＋目玉焼き、￥１０００。豆腐ハンバーグ、￥８００。
Wagyu hamburger and fried egg. A bit undercooked inside, as intended by the chef apparently, but I was too chicken to eat it…
Tofu hamburger. The only good one.

Everything is cooked on the teppan(hot plate). The staff are very genki and friendly. But as you can tell from the very small no. of customers even during busy lunch hour that the quality needs some improvement…

Lunch menu here.

オキドキ(Okidoki)