Monthly Archive: April 2007 [27]
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April 28, 2007
igrek MARUNOUCHI (イグレック 丸の内)
コリアンダーで風味づけしたサーモンといろいろ野菜のコンポジション。
アスパラのヴルテ 市場から届いた海老のポワレ添え。
From the 5000yen lunch course.
Salmon with coriander and vegetables.
Asparagus Velouté with prawns.
鴨の雌雛のポワレとエシャロットのフォンドュ添え 香草風味のｼﾞｭー。
紅茶とフルーツのゼリー寄せ、ガナッシュケーキ、フランボワーズアイスとマカロン、マンゴーソース添え。
Pan-fried duck in eshallot sauce, with spinach ravioli and mushroom saute.
Tea jelly, ganache cake, framboise sorbet, mango macaron and mango sauce.
The food was just okay. The duck was already cold when it came out. Portion was tiny. Quite expensive for the quality. Apparently butter and cream are not heavily used and more emphasis are put on the vegetables. I guess it will be perfect for the elderly...
It is on the 5th floor of Shin-marunouchi building, which actually opened on the day we went for lunch. ^^;;;;; It opened at 11am and we booked for 12am....you can imagine how crowded it was. We had to queue to get into the building, then another queue for the elevator/escalator. People people people EVERYWHERE! No time and no strength to take pics of the interior, just the pretty reporter here and the massive queue here. The view from the restaurant is superb, overlooking Tokyo station. Not taken from the restaurant I had lunch but the view is similar(here). After lunch we explored all the floors and found many tempting restaurants....and have already booked two restaurants on the spot. So I guess I will be coming back again...^^;;
igrek MARUNOUCHI
Comments(4) [ french food | 有楽町・丸の内 ]
April 25, 2007
Le Manoir D'HASTINGS
4800yen lunch includes two appetizers(many choices), main dish and dessert.
Rose champagne 1700yen, glass wine 1250yen~.
ブーダン ノワール。
スペシャリテ 人参のムースとコンソメジュレ ウニ添え。
Amuse-bouche: Boudin noir(pork blood sausage). So good!
Specialty: Carrot mousse and consomme jelly with sea urchin.
本日の前菜から：鰻でバターライスを巻いたもの。
豚足のポルト酒煮込み。
Butter rice rolled in Unagi. The unagi is grilled crispy on the outside.
Pig foot rolled with chicken mousse and mushroom and simmered in port wine.
Somehow I ordered an appetizer and a main that look the same and taste similar....^^;; But both are delicious.
Wagon dessert. White chocolate mousse.
The appetizers and the main dish are all very good. Though the white chocolate mousse is actually better than the desserts which are pretty normal. The service is not so friendly. In fact we were all a bit annoyed at some point. Well go for the food but not for the service.
Lunch menu(J) here.
Le Manoir D'HASTINGS
Comments(2) [ french food | 新橋・銀座・日本橋 ]
April 24, 2007
霞町 すゑとみ
あん肝の茶碗蒸し（お酢のあんかけ）。
I was expecting some stylish and upscale Japanese washoku place, so I was a little taken back by the entrance which is impossible to spot and far from pretty. Inside is very basic and small, with only 10 counter seats. Forgot the exact price, but the cheapest lunch course I ordered was about 3000yen.
Ankimo chawanmushi. Absolutely delicious!! Has a hint of vinegar.
穴子の飯蒸し。タラの白子のお吸い物。
Anago steamed with rice.
Cod shirako osuimono(clear broth). The shirako is so creamy and rich~.
蓮根まんじゅう（くずのあん）。
焼き魚のハチウオ。
Lotus root manju. Very mochi-mochi.
Grilled hachiuo. Fatty and juicy fish.
おじゃこのごはん。蓮根もち。
Jako(little fish) rice. Miso soup is very good. Dessert is lotus root cake. Reminds me of chinese dim sum but very good.
The environment might not be up to much but the food is to die for. Good value for this kind of proper kaiseki-ish washoku too.
霞町 すゑとみ (Kasumicho Suetomi)
Add: 3F, 4-2-13 Nishi-Azabu, Minato-ku
Tel: 03-5466-1270
Comments(2) [ my favourites | japanese food | 麻布・六本木・赤坂 ]
April 23, 2007
Manju Cafe Mugimaru2 (マンヂウカフェ ムギマル2)
ヨモギ地にアンチーズ。
紅茶まん（アールグレイ入り生地にシナモン粒あん）。
A cafe specialised in manju.
Red bean paste and cheese in a wild grass(yomogi) manju.
Red bean paste and cinnamon in a Earl Grey tea flavoured manju.
The manju are freshly made and come steaming hot and have very soft skin. The chai is strong and rich.
Menu: 1, 2.
I sat on the second floor which has very cute decor. Looks like this cafe is converted from a house. The manju are steamed on the first floor. I didn't know I had to take off my shoes before climbing the steep stairs and was told off by the staff....I saw some slippers there and wore them without thinking, and was told off again because the slippers are only for the bathroom...^^;; Wish there were signs or something.
Manju Cafe Mugimaru2
Comments(4) [ japanese sweets | 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
April 22, 2007
artdish (アーディッシュ)
鮭のバター醤油焼き定食、９５０円。
Grilled salmon with butter and soy sauce. Delicious but a bit too little. It has a little art gallery next to the cafe, but too bad they didn't put up any paintings on the day I went.
artdish
Comments(2) [ 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
亀井堂
オムライスにミニサラダとコンソメスープが付いて￥８００。
Omurice lunch set. It is okay. The ketchup rice inside is a bit soggy. The restaurant is on the second floor and the bakery is on the first floor. The old-fashioned custard cream bun(very big!) seems popular and gets sold out around lunch time. Also got the chestnut bun which has massive chunks of chestnut inside. The bread itself is so-so but the filling is delicious. ^^;;
亀井堂
Comments(0) [ 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
ばっかす
カルボナーラ、８８０円。
Carbonara. Taste OK. Comes with salad and coffee. Very tiny cafe on the second floor with a big window.
Comments(2) [ 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
翁庵
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
Comments(0) [ 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
April 20, 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
April 19, 2007
きくかわ
うな重（２匹付）（イ）、２６２０円。
Seemingly very famous place for Unaju - eel on rice in a box. The difference in price is just the difference in size of the unagi. I had the cheapest(2620yen!) and it was pretty big already. The madam said unadon(eel on rice in a bowl) uses fatter unagi, but she recommended Unaju so we all had it. It is very good. Huge portion. Want to try the Unadon next time!
(Whole set looks like this.)
きくかわ
Comments(6) [ japanese food | 神田・神保町・秋葉原 ]
April 18, 2007
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
Comments(0) [ french food | 池袋 ]
April 17, 2007
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
April 16, 2007
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
April 14, 2007
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
Comments(2) [ good cheap eats | 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
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
Comments(2) [ 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
作治
ほっけ焼き定食、￥８００。
Grilled Atka mackerel. Quite good. Can't tell from the pic but the fish is huge.
Comments(0) [ 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
きく花
幕の内弁当、８００円。
Makunouchi bento. No good. Other lunch options are deep-fried stuff which look better.
Comments(0) [ 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
April 12, 2007
La Luna Rossa (ラ・ルーナ・ロッサ＠中目黒)
Lovely window view of a little river(Megurogawa). There are sakura trees along the river so the location is perfect for ohanami. But then you will probably have to book way in advance and it is hard to predict the blossom period which is only like a week...I didn't even bother to try. ^^;;
はまぐりのパン粉焼き。
三陸産牡蠣のパステッラとじゃがいものクレーマ、サンダニエーレ産プロシュート添え。
Grilled clam with breadcrumbs. Good.
Oyster fried in pastella of batter, with potato cream and prosciutto. A bit salty and the batter is quite thick.
白金豚のサルシッチャと菜花、パルミジャーノチーズのピチ。
Bread is so-so.
Pici(pasta) with platinum pork salsiccia(sausage) and nanohana and parmesan cheese. The handmade pasta is very good!
豚肉と季節の野菜と添えて。
ビターチョコレートの焼きたてトルティーノ。
Pork with seasonal vegetables. Bland.
Warm bitter chocolate Tortino. Chocolate is rich. Very good. The little balls are truffle ice-cream. The cream for the chocolate cake is banana flavour.
Lunch course I ordered was about 4000yen. There is a cheaper 3000yen lunch course that doesn't include the meat dish while the pasta(same choice as 4000yen course) is twice the portion. Since the meat is no good anyway, the cheaper pasta lunch is probably a better choice. I only had a glass of sparkling wine and mineral water, came up to 5700yen.
Service is just so-so. And despite the fact that the restaurant is along the river, it is quite hard to find - everyone got lost. Sakura blossoming or not, the environment is very nice though.
Menu(J) here.
La Luna Rossa
April 11, 2007
PIERRE HERMÉ PARIS (ピエール･エルメ･パリ)
モガドール： パッションフルーツ風味のミルクチョコレートガナッシュ。
マカロン ペーシュ・アブリコ・サフラン： サフラン風味の白桃のガナッシュ、柔らかアプリコット。
Mogador(left): Passion fruit and milk chocolate Ganache.
Macaron Peche Abricot Safran(right): Safran-flavoured peach Ganache and apricot.
ピスターシュ： ピスタチオガナッシュ。
ショコラ： ビターチョコレートガナッシュ。
Pistache(left). Chocolat(right).
カフェ： コーヒー風味のガナッシュ。
シトロン： レモン風味のクリーム。
バニラとローズ。
Also coffee, lemon, vanilla, and rose flavour.
The best macarons I have had so far(not that I am the macaron expert...). Love rose flavour the most!
PIERRE HERMÉ PARIS
Comments(2) [ cakes and sweets ]
雅楽
かきあげせいろ、￥７８０。
Kakiage(mixed tempura fritter) seiro. Very good! The udon is soft and chewy. Newly open, very clean and female-friendly inside.
雅楽
Comments(0) [ 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
しゅぞう
豚生姜鉄板定食、９００円。
Pork with ginger on teppan hot-plate. Okay. Pork a little hard.
Comments(0) [ 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
コリ家
豆腐チゲ、８００円。
Tofu chige(spicy soup). Not bad.
コリ家
Comments(0) [ 飯田橋・神楽坂 ]
April 10, 2007
Merveille (メルヴェイユ)
ブーダン ノワール。
人参のムース、 カニとホタテのタルタル、 野菜・ウニ・トマトのジュレを供に。
Boudin noir(pork blood sausage). Delicious!
Carrot mousse, crab and scallop tartare, vegetables and uni and tomato jelly. A little cold in the middle but overall very refreshing.
サワラのポワレ 白身魚のコロッケ添え。
イベリコ豚肩ロース肉のグリエ。
Pan-fried Sawara(Spanish Mackerel), cod croquette. Like the croquette more than the fish.
Grilled Iberico pork shoulder meat. Smokey flavour and ham-like solid texture. Minced pork rolled in zucchini on the side is good too.
特製ロールケーキ、ヨーグルトシャーベット添え。
Roll cake with yogurt sorbet. There were 3 desserts to choose from and I originally picked the blanc manger, but AFTER I ordered, my friends told me that the roll cake is the specialty of the house. I grabbed the waiter immediately and changed my order, and he said "Oh yeah, roll cake is THE thing to order, but I am in no position to hardsell it...." (No, it is your JOB to recommend!! ^^;) Anyway, I am glad I ordered it, cos it really is very good. The cream and the sponge are so smooth and rich. The finger cakes that come with the coffee are crispy on the surface, very good too.
Full lunch course is 4800yen. The amuse-bouche is not included but my friend knows the manager so we got special service, hoho~
Merveille
Comments(2) [ french food | 新橋・銀座・日本橋 ]
April 07, 2007
KYOTO DAY 3
イノダコーヒー本店(INODA COFFEE)
ビーフカツサンド＋プレミアムコーヒー、￥２２２６。
Breakfast. A massive queue outside the shop! Most of them carrying Kyoto guidebooks....just like me. ^^;;; Beef cutlet sandwich and Premium coffee. Very good but...quite expensive!!!!
北野天満宮(Kitano Tenmangu)
My camera was breaking down so some of the photos are from my friend's camera, like this one. So pretty.
出町ふたば(Futaba)
豆餅。 桜餅。
Famous "mame-mochi", same as daifuku studded with whole beans. Also got sakura-mochi.
八坂の塔・法観寺(Yasaka Pagoda - Houkanji Temple)
Not sure if the two maiko are the real thing, since nowadays "maiko taiken" or "maiko henshin" is popular.
二年坂・三年坂(Ninenzaka - Sannenzaka)
修伯(Shuuhaku)
Lunch course 5250yen.
わさび菜・飯だこの酢みそあえ・ふきのとうのてんぷら・いんげん
小鯛と京都大原の朝どり竹の子の吸い物
Wasabi leaf, iidako(octupus) with vinegar and miso, fukinoto tempura, kidney beans.
Bream and bamboo shoot suimono(clear soup).
お造り
鯛・ひらめ
あおりいか・ブリ
Bream, flatfish.
Squid, yellowtail.
鯖棒寿司・づけまぐろ寿司
角煮入り海老芋まんじゅう
Mackerel sushi, maguro sushi.
Ebiimo manju with kakuni inside.
ブリの味噌漬け・揚げジャガイモと揚げ白板昆布
ふきごはん・香の物
Grilled yellowtail with miso, fried potato and fried konbu.
Rice cooked with fuki. Pickles.
イチゴヨーグルトパフェ
くるみのミルフィーユ
For dessert, you can order as many as you want.
Strawberry yogurt parfait. Has yogurt ice-cream, strawberry, coconut pudding, jelly and rice(!) in it. Very good.
Walnut mille-feuille.
はったい粉の大福
抹茶白玉入り汁粉
Daifuku made with hattaiko(flour of roasted barley).
Shiruko with green tea shiratama.
抹茶アイス
Matcha ice-cream.
Overall the food is very good. The saba(mackerel) sushi is absolutely amazing. Though the main dish(grilled fish) is a bit dry...There were two types of fish for you to choose as the main. I chose the one that is normally more fatty and my friend picked the other. Turned out that my friend's choice was fish cheek, which we weren't told - the cheek of a skinny fish will be more juicy than the body part of a fat fish. ^^;;;; Anyway, the main chef only appeared from time to time. Most of the stuff was cooked by the two young apprentices...
Got a Mackerel sushi to eat on the shinkansen. Unfortunately I bought from the WRONG shop!! My friend recommended this shop. Argh next time! ^^;;
Very short but a great trip~
Comments(7) [ other parts of japan ]
April 06, 2007
KYOTO DAY 2
Le Petit Mec(ル・プチメック)
Breakfast in a cute bakery cafe.
Right pic is mine...a sandwich and two tarts. ^^;;
大原三千院(Ohara Sanzenin)
Ohara is a bit far and we went there by car.
Creepy but I just love it!!
So cute~~
宝泉院(Hosenin)
Also in Ohara.
You can hear some "ding ding" water sound from the holes on the wood.
京・上賀茂 萬川(Mankawa)
Menu here.
京野菜味わいセット、￥１８９０。
1890yen lunch course.
桜花酒。おばんざい盛り合わせ。
Sakura sake. Obanzai(Kyoto daily family dishes).
京水菜のサラダ。白味噌仕立ての豆乳。
Mizuna salad. White miso soybean milk.
筍の田楽。ハーブ豚の角煮と旬の京野菜のあんかけ。
Bamboo shoot dengaku(spread with miso and grilled).
Simmered herb pork and Kyoto vegetables in ankake(starchy sauce).
十五穀米の湯葉あんかけとお漬物。
15-grain rice with yuba ankake.
For a lunch less than 2000yen, the standard is very high. Kyoto food with a modern touch. Very handy if you are short of cash....
一乗寺中谷(Ichijouji Nakatani)
Menu: 1, 2, 3.
本日のパフェ、￥８３０。
Today's parfait. Ice-cream is sakura flavour, so nice!!
中谷パフェ、￥９５０。
絹ごし緑茶てぃらみす。
Nakatani parfait. Green tea tiramisu.
京都花灯路(Kyoto Hanatouro)
"Light-up" event in March. Pretty nice but not as big-scale as I had expected. It was raining but still very crowded~.
余志屋（Yoshiya)
Dinner. Menu: 1, 2.
飯だこ煮。
Simmered Iidako(octopus). Very soft!
焼き茄子のゴマだれ。 野菜あんかけ。
Grilled aubergine in sesame sauce. Vegetables in ankake(starchy sauce). The Japanese starchy sauce is not oily and completely drinkable, unlike the chinese kind. Apparently it is very common Kyoto cooking style in winter because the thick starch sauce keeps the food warm.
鴨まんじゅう。
Duck manju.
釜めし：えび、とり、竹の子、他。
This place is famous for its kamameshi(From Wikipedia: a traditional Japanese rice dish cooked in an iron pot with various kinds of meat, seafood, and vegetables). This one has prawn, chicken, bamboo shoot and other stuff.
釜めし：穴子。
Kamameshi with anago.
All the food are very good. Traditional Kyoto winter food that really warms you up. We only had tea and no alcohol with the meal and it was 10,000yen for 3 people.
Comments(4) [ other parts of japan ]
April 05, 2007
KYOTO DAY 1
草喰 なかひがし(Soujiki Nakahigashi)
Soujiki literally means "eating glass". The owner chef spends 2,3 hours every morning picking wild grass and turnｓ them into wonderful cuisine. My friend told me this is the kind of food that Japanese eat in the past. Somehow I have two serious friends who carried a wild grass dictionary with them and studied it while they ate....Reservation is nearly impossible. My friend's mom helped to call one month in advance, on the first day of the month starting from 8am...and apparently she kept phoning non-stop for 30 mins until finally she got through the line. It is that crazy.
【前菜】
赤かぶと干柿ときんかんの椿仕立て
いざさ（びわ湖で取れたもの）の炊いたん
さといもとそら豆の白玉
ブロッコリー
甘草
天仁
鹿肉ののり巻き
はまぐりのおこわ
"Camellia" made from red turnip, dried persimmon, kinkan(orange), venison seaweed roll. Close-up of the clam rice.
【口取り】
ふきのとうの白和え、芽の出たつくしを添えて
【お椀】
海老芋と田ぜりの白味噌汁
Fukinoto shiraae(tofu dressing).
Ebiimo and parsley miso soup.
【焼き物】
岩魚塩焼き、のびる酢添え
【刺身】
こいのおつくりと皮
にんじんのわかめ巻き
辛味大根のすりおろし、たんぽぽ、菜の花
おらんだがらし、わさび菜、こいのあらいの煮こごり
Grilled Iwana fish.
Koi(carp) sashimi and skin.
Carrot rolled in wakame.
Radish, dandelion, nanohana.
Watercress, wasabi leaf, koi nikogori(gelatin from cooked fish).
【炊き合わせ】
めかじ、たけの子、ゆば、かに
はたけ菜の煮びたし
Bamboo shoot, yuba, crab etc.
Hatakena.
【おつけもの】
大根、赤かぶ、黄人参、菜の花、昆布
【ご飯】
おくどさんで炊いたご飯
堀川ごぼうのひげ根と人参のごま和え
ねぎみそ
めざしの丸干し
Pickles. Rice.
Burdock root and carrot with sesame.
Leek and miso.
Mezashi(salted dried sardine).
【水菓子】
上賀茂の朝どりいちご
ぶんたん
きなこアイス
Fresh picked strawberry, buntan, and soybean flour.
Lunch course is 5000yen. All the veggy and the grass and the flowers have a kind of natural bitterness, but it is not unpleasant. In fact the bitterness is the good part.
銀閣寺(Ginkaku-ji)
南禅寺(Nanzen-ji Zen Temple)
祇園小石(Gion Koishi)
Famous Kyoto candy shop.
抹茶クリームあんみつ、￥８１０。
Matcha cream anmitsu. Matcha ice-cream is very nice~
黒糖シフォンパフェ、￥９５０。
あめやさんのキャラメルあんみつ、￥８４０
Kokutou(black sugar) chiffon parfait. Kokutou is this shop's specialty.
Caramel anmitsu.
As souvenir I got this. The kokutou one is super yummy.
瓢亭MARU(Hyoutei Maru)
This is a casual branch of an expensive washoku restaurant.
Part of the menu(J): 1, 2.
暖かキノコと京菜のサラダ。
牛の梅しそ焼。
Warm mushroom and kyona(mizuna) salad. This is good.
Grilled beef with ume and shiso.
カンパチかま塩焼き。
まる鍋（すっぽん）。
Grilled yellowtail(kanpachi) cheek. Fatty and juicy.
Maru-nabe(Turtle hotpot). The soup is nice.
竹の子ご飯。
ぐじ（甘鯛）塩焼き。
Bamboo shoot rice.
Grilled amadai(bream). This one is expensive but a bit normal.
All these food plus 3 drinks, 7700yen. The food is quite izakaya feel. Slightly expensive perhaps.
Patisserie au Grenier D'or (パティスリー オ・グルニエ・ドール)
The cafe space is very cute but too bad we didn't have time to eat-in. We bought two cakes and ate in the hotel room. Both are very good!
Comments(5) [ other parts of japan ]
April 02, 2007
Warasou 和楽惣
６０００円のディナーコース。
豆腐。 メジマグロと鯛。
6000yen dinner course(the cheapest course in the menu).
Homemade tofu. Meji-maguro and tai(bream).
サバ、胡麻和え。 揚げ茄子とそぼろとチンゲン菜。
Mackerel with sesame seed.
Fried aubergine and minced meat.
白子の茶碗蒸し（もちと海苔入り）。豚のスペアリブ。
Shirako chawanmushi(mochi and seaweed in it).
Simmered sparerib.
サワラの塩焼き。鶏のたたき。
Grilled sawara fish with salt.
Chicken tataki(seared).
穴子のフライ。肉じゃがカレーご飯。
Fried anago. Nikujaga and curry rice.
Some of the dishes are very much the common souzai(惣菜) - Japanese side dishes that you eat with rice. Indeed I craved rice desperately, especially when having the aubergine and the sparerib cos they had strong taste. Overall the food is great. Love the chawanmushi. A lot of meat for a Japanese course.
The waitress didn't know anything whatever we asked her about the menu. The waiter did seem to know but wasn't quite eager to tell us much. They charged us 2000yen more than they should have...lucky my friend noticed it. No apologies from the staff about the mistake whatsoever. Have to conclude that the service is spotty at best. Shame though cos the food is good...
和楽惣
