Archive for June 2nd, 2008

Katane Bakery@Yoyogi-Uehara (カタネベーカリー＠代々木上原)

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マッシュルームとベーコンのスープ。
A nice bakery with a cafe at the basement. Lunch set is available until 3pm and after that it is cafe time when you can order sandwiches, waffle, cakes etc. I had the 1500yen lunch set. Tomato and potato salad. Mushroom and bacon soup is a bit oily.
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鶏と白菜の白ワイン煮。
Chicken and chinese cabbage stewed in white wine. Chicken is very soft and tastes good in general but I think it is a bit too heavy-handed with salt. Bread is refillable.
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ガトーショコラ。
Warm gateau-chocolat and ice-cream.
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From a different visit. Waffle with banana, custard and caramel sauce, 600yen. The texture is more like pancake than waffle. Very huge for the price. Also the very good bread I bought from the first floor bakery.

カタネベーカリー
Add: 1-7-5 Nishihara, Shibuya-ku (near Yoyogi-uehara station)
Tel: 03-3466-9834

0803070047Within walking distance is a popular “natural yeast” bakery called Le Vian(ルヴァン). Pictures of the bread I bought are here: 1, 2, 3. Plain-looking bread but shockingly nice! Actually I like the bread from Le Vian even more than Katane Bakery. Just personal preference though!
Add: 2-43-13, Tomigaya, Shibuya-ku
Tel: 03-3468-9669


Maruichi Bagel@Yoyogi-Uehara

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0803070028Absolutely amazing bagels! Apparently it is so popular among bagel fans that on weekends, a queue will start to form before the shop opens at 11am and the bagels often get sold out early in the afternoon. I tried my luck on a weekday when I happened to be in the neighbourhood. I only managed to get there by 1:30pm but there were 9 different kinds of bagels available and no one was waiting. Though when I left, people started to queue….I think I was just lucky. Each person can only buy up to 10 bagels. Price of the bagels ranges from 180yen to 250yen each. A bit expensive for just bagels but they are very big and very solid. You can order bagel sandwiches too - 600yen for two choices of filling. I had potato salad filling for half of the bagel, and pumpkin salad for the other half. The shop is so tiny and has no cafe space so I had to take-out the sandwich and ate somewhere else. Very delicious sandwich but the bagel was not toasted. Later I toasted the rest of the bagels at home and they were much much nicer.

Maruichi Bagel (マルイチベーグル)
Near Yoyogi-Uehara station. It says on the homepage that it will be closed until 1st July…oops.