Aigre Douce (エーグルドゥース＠目白)

Posted on August 9, 06 by seat

カスレット（シュー生地の中にキャラメル風味のバナナ入りのカスタード）、ティラミスフィグ、チーズケーキ。ケークキャラメル。
Left: The crust is the same as that of cream puffs, the surface is the crispy sugar layer like that of creme brulee, and the inside is caramelised banana and custard cream. I like this one the most. Top: “Tiramisu fig”, sponge at the bottom is soaked with alcohol(rum?) and mixed with fig, then cheese cream all the way up, a little chocolate powder and fig slices on the surface. Right: Cheese cake, hmm pretty mild and normal. Take-way: Caramel cake. The surface is caramel-glazed and very hard. The whole cake is basically caramel and more caramel…one small slice would be delicious, but I had to finish the whole cake by myself….(nobody’s fault ^^;;;)

ミルフィーユ。モンブラン。
Second visit! Mille-feuille: the pie is crispy and nice. Mont Blanc: cream and merengue underneath the marron cream, which I found a bit rough and grainy.
Aigre Douce

Toshi Yoroizuka

Posted on August 6, 06 by seat

Creme Brulee Pistache, with lavender ice-cream. It is very good!! The pistachio cream(cold) is very rich, and the surface is grilled crispy. Only thing is the cream is quite heavy and it is so big that it is surprisingly hard to finish. I wish the ice-cream were bigger and the creme brulee were smaller, then it would be perfect. When I went on a weekday lunchtime, the eat-in space was full(only 6 seats) and 2 people before me were waiting. I had to wait for about 20 minutes, but after me….people kept coming and coming and I counted 11 people waiting…-o-;;;

Bought lots to take away: galette(round cookie), financier plain and financier Earl Grey(rectangular), Amande(almond, rich with egg and butter, my favourite!) and chocolate cake with walnut(very rich too).

栗と洋梨、チョコレートとピスタチオ、ラムの効いたケーキ。
Chestnut and pear. Chocolate and pistachio. Rum and something I forgot…

チョコレートスフレ（フランボワーズソース付き）、１０００円。
Chocolate Souffle with raspberry sauce.

クレープの巾着包み、１０００円。赤いフルーツのスープとピスタチオのアイス、１０００円。
Crepe wrap(?). Fruit soup with pistachio ice-cream.

栗とチョコレートのモンブラン、ラム酒風味アイス添え、洋梨ソース。
カシス（イチジク入り）。
Chestnut and chocolate Mont Blanc with rum ice-cream and pear sauce. Cassis cake with fig.
Toshi Yoroizuka

Restaurant hAru(ハル)

Posted on February 24, 06 by seat

海の幸（才巻海老・トコブシ・ホタテ・ウニ・牡蠣）のコンソメゼリーがけ、人参のムースと共に、２２００円。
Seafood including prawn, shellfish, scallop, sea urchin and oysters, with consomme jelly and carrot mousse. So good! The scallop is super sweet.

ランド産フォワグラのポワレ、トリュフ風味、下仁田ネギのエチュベ添え、２２００円。
蝦夷鹿ロース肉のポワレ、黒コショウ風味、３４００円。
Pan-fried foie gras, with truffle and spring onion. Foie gras very rich-tasting and cooked just right.
“Ezo” venison, black pepper sauce. I always get venison whenever it is available somehow, even though the portion is always so much smaller than say pork or beef, which my friend got and couldn’t finish cos they were too big portion! ^^; But the venison here is very soft, but fried crispy outside.

紫イモのモンブラン　紅茶のアイスクリーム添え、１２００円。
洋梨のジュレとムースのパルフェ仕立て　牛乳のソルベと御一緒に、１０００円。
I had the taro Mont Blanc, with tea ice-cream. My friend had pear jelly and pear mousse parfait with milk sorbet. Both are very good.
Overall very good, the waitor and the waitress were super friendly, which really makes a difference. The only weak point is the bread, which is a bit hard and tasteless. So I ended up not eating much bread and didn’t feel as full as I should have. One glass of wine and a coffee, it came up to 11000yen, quite luxurious. ^^;; Oh the restaurant is owned by Rakuten’s boss’ wife, and by chance the boss and his wife and their kid were all there when we went. I didn’t know them of course but my friend got quite excited. ^^;;
Restaurant hAru