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Sucre Sale (スクレ・サレ)

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060909 015.jpg1890円のランチ: 海老とタコのマリネ、自家製豚バラ塩漬け肉のカ リカリ焼き マスタードソース、プルーンタルト。
Marinated prawn and octopus salad. Grilled salted belly pork with mustard sauce. Prune tart. The belly pork was so fatty but very juicy and good. The salad and dessert were fixed for the course and both were a bit boring…This place was supposed to be big portion and cheap but I thought the portion and the price were pretty normal. Also….the waitor is a very scary character!! Bald and not smiling and not very polite…and he was staring at us while we were having our salad which made me so uneasy, especially my friend who had never been to a French restaurant in Japan and she was pretty nervous because of him. Luckily more customers came and filled up the place later and we forgot about him. ^^;;
Sucre Sale

Fruit Parlor Fukunaga(フルーツパーラー フクナガ)

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060826 012.jpgフルーツサンド(ハーフ)とコーヒーのセット、600円。
桃のパフェ、950円。
Fruit sandwich and peach parfait. The sandwich is just sliced fruits with whipped cream, the bread is not toasted(I wish it was). When I went I was the only customer and the owner was talkative and gave me a lecture about how you should eat the skin of peaches and not peel it away and waste all the nutrients in it…so my peach parfait came without having the skin peeled and I had to do it myself secretly, hiding the skin in tissue paper… ^^;; While I ate, two more loner customers came in and one girl seemed to be familar with the owner and she ordered the peach parfait too. When the owner started to give the same lecture, she said, “I WANT THE SKIN PEELED, JUST DO IT!” ^^;;; The parfait was okay…peach sorbet and vanilla ice-cream underneath.

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Cherry parfait.
フクナガ

Salsa Cabana (サルサ・カバナ)

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スパイシーチキン エンチラーダ、900円。
Spicy chicken Enchiladas. Hmm….the chicken tasted suspiciously like canned food, the green tomato sauce was too sour(supposed to be sour?), the corn tortilla was hard(supposed to be hard?), plus it was not ovened enough so not hot…just like my friend said about this place, the taste is very fastfood…while the price is not.
Salsa Cabana

岩井食堂 (Iwai Shokudou)

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イワシのオイルサーディン。トマトのオーブン焼き。
Sardine with olive oil. Oven tomato(some rare type of tomato apparently) and cheese with garlic. Both are very good.
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コクレ鶏のハーブ焼き。ウニのクリームパスタ。
Some French bred chicken, grilled with herb. A bit normal.
Uni pasta. Not spaghetti but thicker type, probably linguine, cooked just right, but the uni cream sauce had not much uni taste…
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失恋のパスタ。海老のトマトソースリゾット。
“Broken heart pasta”, just Lasagne with corn beef instead of minced meat, and not grilled.
Prawn tomato sauce risotto. The prawn was a bit bitter…

060822 007.jpgA small restaurant with only counter seats. The chef is famous for being rude and noisy. ^^;; But since we were prepared, we were not too shocked. Still a bit nervous when ordering or asking for recommendations. He and his wife both smoked while cooking, which was something I had never experienced in Japan, even in cheap places. Because of the open kitchen+counter seats, all our clothes stank oily afterwards. 3 of us shared all the food and opened 2 bottles of wine, came up to 5000yen per person, quite cheap! But really, once is enough. ^^;;
岩井食堂

Maison Cache-Cache(メゾン カシュカシュ)

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3600円のディナーコースにて。本日の前菜:鴨のパテ。
Today’s appetizer: duck Pate.
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アナゴのもち米とワイルドライス包み焼き、カレー風味のソース。
プラチナポークコンフィのロースト。
Sticky rice and wild rice wrapped in anago(eel), curry sauce.
(My choice)Roasted pork confit.
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本日のデザート:パイナップルのクレームダンジュ。
キルシュアイスクリームのクレープ、温かい蜂蜜風味のアメリカンチェリー。
(My choice)Pineapple creme d’anjou.
Crepe with kirsch ice-cream and warm honeyed American cherry.
I was expecting a tiny bistro, but this place turned out to be quite spacious and comfortable, the atmosphere was lovely too. As my friend pointed out, most of the customers were girls. Dinner course is only 3600yen, so cheap!
Maison Cache-Cache

北島亭 (Kitajimatei)

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アンチョビクロワッサン。スープにつくラスク。
Anchovy croissant. Rusk that goes with the soup.
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名前は適当に。カキの野菜スープ。鶏のロースト、アサリとキャベツ。
Oyster vegetable soup. Not as good as it looks. Roasted chicken with clams and cabbage. Not bad but very very SALTY!!! Had to keep eating bread and drinking water, would have been better if I had ordered wine though. The clams had too much sand….

060405 017.jpgStrawberry tart is super yummy~! My favourite part of the course. We chose the cheapest lunch course, including soup, main dish, dessert, fruits and chocolate and coffee, and it was about 4000yen. Even though we didn’t have appetizers, we were really stuffed at the end cos the portion was so huge. Wouldn’t mind going back and ordering from the a la carte menu which is more appealing…if I ever crave super salty food.
北島亭

Enoteca Norio (エノテカノリーオ)

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051217 002.jpg2800円のランチコース。
フランス産鴨胸肉とサラダ。栗とゴルゴンゾーラチーズのリゾット。蝦夷鹿のロースト、黒スグリのソース。デザートの盛り合わせ、800円。
Duck breast salad. Chestnut and gorgonzola risotto. Roasted Ezo venison with blackcurrant sauce.
Enoteca Norio