About food in Japan

Vegetable plant in SUBWAY sandwich restaurant

You may be able to find SUBWAY sandwich restaurant in your country too.

But, does the restaurant have a "vegetable plant" on site? 

 

Yes 

 

SUBWAY sandwich restaurant in Marunouchi Building Tokyo does grow green leaf vegetable in a plant located on the center of the firtst food chain restaurant. Tables and chairs are placed around the glass-wall plant case. The harvested leaf of lettuce is, of course like at normal SUBWAY unit, served there for your sandwich.

Like this

 

Enjoy your sandwich with very very fresh vegetable, while making sure where it is from on your own eyes

  

Marunouchi is a business district in very central Tokyo. The area is facing to JR Tokyo station, one of the largest terminal of Tokyo as well as holds headquater offices of major national banks and government ministries. It is also a place whose land price is one of the heighest in Japan.

So how much the value of lettuce leaf harvested in Marunouchi???  It must be more tasty if you eat it, while thinking of that

 

 

Restaurant name: SUBWAY Marunouchi Yasai Lobo

Address: B1 floor Marunouchi Building, 2-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 

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Arata (新), Roppongi - casual Japanese meal in modern chic atmoshpere

You may be interested in Izakaya and local cuisines of Japan. But if you would not like to be tired with hassles at a very local place where almost no English is available, Arata (新) must be a good option for you.

Arata is located in a luxury shopping complex, Roppongi Hills. Roppongi, the town, may be the place where we find the most number of non-Japanese people in Japan. Like other restaurants in the town, at Arata, you do not have to worry whether the restaurant has English menu or not. 

 

The modern fashionable interior decoration of the restaurant includes a big wall art of Kabuki actor depicted with illuminated Swarovski stones on ceiling.

On the other hand, what we can find on the menu list is quite local-Japanese dishes that are likely to be offered at traditional "Izakaya".The restaurant aims at proposing new types of "washoku" (Japanese dishes) like the name, arata (新) representing "new" in English.

 

 

 

 

Let us show you, what we ordered one day.

 

Shutou (salted guts of Bonito) with cream cheese (bottom) and

pickles of Japanese vegetables (upper)

"Shutou" is a rare delicacy from Kochi, Shikoku region.

The salty taste is well matched with cream cheese.

 

Kujo leek, known as specialty of Kyoto, sautee with chicken on heated iron plate

 

Californian rolls - that is not Japanese traditional menu though...  

 

Modanyaki (pancake of pork, cheese and noodle)

We could not imagine that we had such a casual local menu

like Okonimiyaki (Japanese style pancake) at this fashionable Roppongi Hills!

 

Creme brulee with chest nuts ice cream

Our journey of Japanese local specialty was not ended

with a simple ordinary dessert.

Chestnut ice cream is on top of

the creme brulee made with rich high quality egg. 

 

 

Other interesting menu will be spicy fried chicken wings Nagoya style, Aburi (char grill) chicken or seafood delicacies, Kushi (skewered) or yakitori and one of the restaurant's featuring item, Nagasaki champon noodle in rich soup cooked for 10 hours.  

Arata also provides an interesting list of beverage including original cocktails with Japanese ingredients. The price starts from Yen 500.

 

At the end of the meal, you might be surprised with the charge. It won't be much higher than the check at casual Izakaya. Considering the restaurant's location, atmosphere and attentive services, it must be value-for-money safe option especially for non Japanese speakers.

 

Restaurant name: Arata (新)

Address: B2 floor Hillside, Roppongi Hills, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Website: http://www.a-ra-ta.com

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