Museum café - SUNTORY MUSEUM of ART

Traditional taste from an old town in Western Japan is available at a museum café in central Tokyo. The café in SUNTORY MUSEUM of ART is operated by a traditional “fu”(麩, wheat gluten cakes) producer, Fumuroya, in Kaga (Kanazawa, the old town in West part of Japan.) The café is decorated accoding to its theme “Japanese modern”.

The café provides Japanese sweets, a few selections of lunch and some local specialities of Kaga region. Here we can discover different ways of serving fu. The traditioanal Japanese food is used for almost all sweets menu. That is not usual for us, people who are not familier with food in Kaga. I ever saw and had fu only as dumplings in clear soup. This is the first time for me to have fu in sweets.

 A few of crisp pieces are on top of ice cream.　Menu: "Fumuroya" parfait

 

 

Sugar coated and dried pieces are served with a cup of tea.

 

 

Only 30 lunch box are ready everyday.

The big soup boul with a lot of fu dipped is of course the feature of the set.

 

SUNTORY MUSEUM of ART does not always offer expositions related Japanese culture, although what we can find there is always high standard collections.

The cafe is accessible even without an entrance ticket of the museum.

It is recommendable not only for the museum visitor but also for  a short break during shopping in  Roppongi Midtown complexe, where the museum is also located.

Cafe address:  SUNTORY MUSEUM of ART Tokyo Midtown,  9-7-4 Akasaka,

                            Minato-ku, Tokyo

Website: http://www.suntory.co.jp/sma/