Lunch buffet!
Fried chicken and simmered pork belly.
Aubergine tempura, simmered pumpkin, fried oysters.
Sweet egg roll, lotus and mentaiko salad, sweet potato tempura, cabbage roll, meat balls, harusame(vermicelli) salad and chimaki.
Rice with ume(sour plum) and jako(dried little fish) in it.
Nikujaga, fried tofu, grilled anko fish and mango cream bun.
Kanten and fruits. Homemade warabi mochi.
From the second visit. All veggy side dishes. 5-grain rice.
Kinoko mushroom cream stew. Salmon and Sensai(green veggy) rice. Lots of salad.
Steamed organic vegetables. Mitarashi dango and caramel pudding.
The food is nothing fantastic but okay quality, cooked in Japanese style and has a large variety of options. The restaurant’s name says “Natural food” so at first I thought it was organic food + healthy cooking but I think only the steamed veggy are organic. Also there are quite a few deep-fried things, and the cooked vegetables are all quite sweet(as in being cooked in sugar), so I guess it is not exactly that strict-healthy. Still you get to eat a lot of vegetables. The staff will shout whenever they bring something new from the kitchen, which is quite often thankfully. Original price for an adult with a time limit of 90mins is 1800yen, but I printed out the coupons from here and it became 1500yen.
大地の贈り物 (Daichi no Okurimono)
Add: 4F, 1-20-11 Ueno, Taito-ku
Tel: 03-3836-2640
Hey the interior looks nice! Food look simple and nice too – but maybe the ‘natural food’ slogan has more to do with being simple, and not with being strictly healthy 😀 Wow that’s a *lot* of salad…
I got the same impression, there seems to be quite a lot of fried food for “natural food’ cred? ^^;; I mean “natural” as the title tend to evoke image of ‘healthy’, ‘green’. The veggies photos toward the bottom looks like a good selection. So the time limit include the time you eat?
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This place is pretty new so the interior is clean and comfortable. Natural food(自然食) usually means organic healthy “LOHAS(Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability)” food in Japan though. But then real organic food buffet will probably cost much more than this one. Yeah haha I got greedy and took too much salad…^^;;
Freda>
Time limit starts from the time you sit down. I was alone so I actually finished in less than an hour~