Luce (ルーチェ)

060228 028060228 041
マトウ鯛のオーブン焼き、トマトクリームソース、1150円。
Oven-grilled bream with tomato cream sauce. Comes with bread, salad, coffee and a small ice-cream. This place is always crowded so I was expecting something good…but the food was quite horrible…
ルーチェ

Ristorante Sakanoue (リストランテ さかのうえ)

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オニオンフォカッチャ。
自家製ブーダンノワールのテリーヌ。
Onion focaccia is warm and soft, but a bit oily.
Boudin Noir(pork blood sausage) terrine. Warm and rich-tasting. Wanted wine… There are hazelnut and pinenut and orange under the leaf.
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060309 146仔羊のラグーソース和え、ローズマリー風味の手打ちパッパルデル。
黒豚ロースの炭火焼き、無農薬野菜のグリル添え。
チョコレートプリンとナッツのジェラート。

Homemade Pappardelle with baby lamb Ragu sauce and rosemary. Big chunks of lamb! Also radish, potato and kidney beans. Nice but quite meaty…craved wine…

Charcoal-grilled kurobuta pork with grilled organic vegetables. Nice charcoal smell and meat very tender. At this point I was beyond desperate for wine. Should have just “fxck work” and ordered wine from the beginning. The food is not overly salty, but I have somehow chosen meat + meat + meat for the course…

Dessert is chocolate pudding and nut gelato. Good too.
All that food plus coffee, only 2500yen. Very good value!

Lunch menu(J) here.
Ristorante Sakanoue

大阪寿司 大〆(Oojime)

060228 086060221 003

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060221 009大阪寿司と蒸し寿司(穴子)の小盛りセット、2400円。
Close-up of the food: 1, 2.
Osaka Oshizushi and steamed sushi with anago(in the bowl). The four oshizushi are nothing special but the hot anago sushi bowl is quite nice. Quite expensive for the amount you get though. Love the interior.
大〆

Manju Cafe Mugimaru2 (マンヂウカフェ ムギマル2)

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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