November 19, 2006

Volo Cosi (ヴォーロ・コズィ@千石)

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Lunch at a rather new Italian restaurant which is obscurely located but much hyped amongst food bloggers.
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Beautiful dark and classy decor. Though I learnt afterwards that this place used to be a French restaurant and the decor is pretty much unchanged. Service is very formal, a whole team of stiff-backed black-suited waiters and waitresses standing around every corner and checking on you all the time. Very friendly people though.
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Vegetable soup, with barley in it. It is so tiny, amazed they found such a miniature bowl. Bread is hot and very good.
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全粒粉の自家製スパゲティ たまねぎとアンチョビソース。
Appetizer plate. Couldn't quite catch the waiter's explanation of each item but they are gorgonzola mousse(very good!) in front of the brioche, roasted pigeon(in the middle), cod paste on potato cake, crab, octopus, vegetable stew, eel roll with orange sauce, and sardine.
There were many pasta choices, I had the homemade whole-wheat spaghetti with onions and anchovy sauce. Simple but good. The onion is very sweet. Soaked all the leftover sauce with a second helping of bread.
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栗のアイスクリームとパンナコッタ。
Japanese chestnut ice-cream and Panna Cotta with cherry sauce. A lot of chestnut must have been used to make the ice-cream, not too smooth but very rich.
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Lunch without the meat dish - the one I ordered - is 2750yen. Quite cheap actually. Full course lunch is 3800yen.
Volo Cosi

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Comments:

In Japan "small gas" is considered elegant....^^;;

seat | November 27, 2006 07:35 PM

Haha I am sucker for polished dark wood, pretty~ The small cup and bowl, while cute, seem a little "small air" :-P

RP | November 27, 2006 11:48 AM

The full course is just the pasta course plus a meat dish. You get the same appetizer, and the same choices for the pasta. I saw the fish and the meat dish at the next table, not very tempting at all, definitely not worth the extra 1300yen. ^^;;

seat | November 22, 2006 01:10 AM

The two breadstick in a champagne glass is a bit pretentious ^^;; The miniature bowl is almost like one for small candles.
Italian eat pigeon too? wow~ The appertizer dish would make me very happy already. This course already have so much, I can't imagine the full-course.

The dark wood interior is so luxury and vintage looking, so nice~

Freda | November 21, 2006 03:43 PM

やっこさん>
同じブログを見たかも、、、笑。

scenic>
Oh they are some teaser snacks - cheese puff, cream cheese and pate. Yeah everything is bite size...but I got quite full because it was a lot of bites. ^^;;

seat | November 21, 2006 12:08 AM

うん、だってちょっと前にいろんなブログで見てたからさ~

やっこ | November 20, 2006 11:32 PM

looks interesting! :)
may i ask what is in the pic on the right side of the 2nd row of pics from the top (heehe... what a mouthful...^^;)?

scenic | November 20, 2006 10:19 PM

え~?そんなに気になってたの?
私もお店の雰囲気に圧倒されて、
1人じゃ入りづらいな~としばらく外でウロウロしてた。
結局入ったけど。
フルコースよりパスタのコースの方がお得だよ~。

seat | November 20, 2006 09:10 PM

1人で行ったの?
あ~ん、私も行きたかった~ 残念(泣)
前菜もパスタもどっちも美味しそう
パスタの種類が豊富なのはすごく嬉しいよね

やっこ | November 20, 2006 01:00 PM