Category Archives: 03:麻布・六本木・赤坂

Warasou 和楽惣

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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).
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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.
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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.
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サワラの塩焼き。鶏のたたき。
Grilled sawara fish with salt.
Chicken tataki(seared).
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穴子のフライ。肉じゃがカレーご飯。
Fried anago. Nikujaga and curry rice.
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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

Bistro Bourgogne （ビストロ ブルゴーニュ）

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殻付きカキ。にんじんのムースとウニのコンソメゼリーよせ。
Argh very ugly photos because of the yellow lighting~
Oysters are raw but slightly warm.
Carrot mousse and uni with consomme jelly.
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鴨胸肉の燻製とフォアグラ、さといものテリーヌ、モザイク仕立て。
コック・オ・ヴァン（鶏もも肉の赤ワイン煮込み） ブルゴーニュ風。
Smoked duck breast, foie gras and satoimo(taro potato) terrine.
Coq au vin: chicken thigh simmered in red wine sauce.
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豚のロティー と豚の煮込み。
オレンジのクレームブリュレ 胡椒風味のクレームグラッセ。
Pork Roti and pork stewed in tomato.
Orange creme brulee with pepper ice-cream. Pepper ice-cream really has lots of pepper…interesting.

Dinner course is about 3900yen. Food is mediocre. Would be acceptable if it were 1000yen cheaper.
Bistro Bourgogne

八山(Hassan)

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7700yen for two hours of “tabehodai”(eat as much as you like) of beef shabu shabu and sushi, and “nomihodai”(drink as much as you like) of beer, sake and other beverages. You get one big plate of assorted sushi at the beginning and you can order other stuff by filling out the sushi order sheet. The quality of the sushi is so-so except the anago which is quite good.
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The quality of beef varies, some were soft and delicious. Limited myself to about 5 or 6 sushi to save space for the beef. It is only hot water in the hotpot, not dashi that would have been much nicer.
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The uni is quite bitter, probably very cheap uni.
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Kishimen(flat udon) is added to the soup at the end – very nice since the soup is finally full of flavour from all that beef and veggy cooked in it. Matcha ice-cream as dessert.

Location is right at the main road of Roppongi. We went on a Thurs night and it was fully packed with salarymen and many foreigners. It was so busy that many of our sushi orders never came.
八山

Aroma-Fresca (アロマフレスカ )

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This Italian restaurant is inside Casa Vinitalia which I have been twice before. The background story is long, but anyway this place is so legendary and has so many loyal fans that you need to book 3 months in advance. Yes 3 months!! Such heroic deeds are not performed by me of course. ^^;; We had the standard course which is 10000yen. The seasonal course is 13500yen(a bit hard to read but the menu is here). Everything in the pictures are included in the course for one person. Expectation for the quality of the food is fulfilled – all the dishes are absolutely delicious and unforgettably fragrant, the service is immaculate. The interior? When you walk in, you feel like you have wandered into a secret garden of your dreams~.
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The olives are so green, never tried before.
Smoked unagi with caviar.
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焼きタラバ蟹のサラダ アロマフレスカ風。
Charcoal grilled taraba crab salad.
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穴子の香草蒸し フレッシュトマト風味。
ポルチーニの冷たいスープとアワビの肝。
Steamed anago with herb and fresh tomato.
Porcini potage with abalone liver.
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ワタリ蟹のスバゲッティ。
じゃがいもを詰めたラヴィオリ バジリコ風味。
Watari crab spaghetti.
Potato ravioli in basil sauce.
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金目鯛のわかめ包み蒸し。
Steamed red sea bream wrapped in seaweed, clam sauce. The original menu is sea bream with a special kind of clams but unfortunately the clams were not available that day….
Lemon and passion fruit sorbet. Very sour and really wakes you up!
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和牛のビステッカ アロマフレスカ風。
Wagyu(Japanese beef), comes in a hot plate and you have to move it to your own plate. The top looks rare but bottom is cooked. Very soft and very fatty. Eat it with lemon+mustard sweet paste, or wasabi(western type apparently) or garlic paste. The salad is rucola. Also comes with sweet potato in cheese cream sauce, very sweet like a dessert!
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イチジクのコンポート、ライチアイスクリーム。
Fig compote, with lychee ice-cream(blue berry sauce inside the ice-cream).
Petit four and caramel tea, and more sweets and chocolate in a big glass.
What a meal!
Aroma-Fresca

Asterix (アステリックス)

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We had the 4725yen dinner course. The Bread is very good!
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鴨のフォワグラと蕪のキャラメリゼ パルサミコソース。
スープ・ド・ポワッソン ルイユ添え。
Foie gras saute with turnip Caramélisée in Balsamico sauce. This is quite good.
Fish soup with Rouille(a paste made from olive oil and breadcrumbs and hot chile peppers apparently), grated cheese and croutons. Too many slices of croutons! They absorbed most of the soup and were simply too stomach-filling. The little amount of soup left to drink was too salty.
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仔羊のロースの炭火焼き。
クスクスと仔羊のナヴァラン アリサ添え。
Charcoal-grilled lamb chop. The meat is soft, great charcoal smell.
Couscous and lamb. My friend’s choice is a good one. The ratatouille is sweet and very nice with the couscous. A big plate too. The two guys sitting next to us both ordered this dish so probably quite popular?
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バナナのラム酒風味フランベとバニラアイス 温かいチョコレートソース。
フランボワーズのキャラメル クレープ包み。
Banana Flambées with rum, vanilla ice-cream and hot chocolate sauce. This is nice. Love the cookie around it, which goes perfectly well with the banana and the rum sauce.
Framboise caramel crepe. The custard cream inside the crepe is too sweet already, plus the caramel and raspberry sauce….I could only eat one.
A lot of customers were foreigners, and there was English menu available, though not as complete as the Japanese one.
Menu: 1, 2, 3.
Asterix

de sot bar NOZAKI(デ・ソト・バル・ノザキ)

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スパゲッティ　仔羊とバジリコのトマトソース、１０００円。 Spaghetti with lamb, basil in tomato sauce. Came with a big salad, a small but quite good foccacia, coffee and a tiny cake. Spaghetti was quite good though the sauce was a bit thin. The open terrace was too hot for summer…even though there was air-conditioning inside.
de sot bar NOZAKI