About food in Japan

STARBUCKS new style shop opened

STARBUCKS Japan opened a new style unit in Tokyo.

Majority of total 27 seats are cozy sofa or arm chairs. The concept image is a relaxing space like a lounge in hotels or airports.
The shop is located next to the taxi hall of Roppongi Hills, a newly developped complex building. Unlike other commercial area of the building, the floor is very quiet and not so many people are walking around. Without asking a staff on the floor, I could not have found the store.

It is a hideaway in Roppongi Hills! (To be honest, I did not want to tell to anybody...)

The uniqueness of the new STARBUCKS is not only the seating.
The shop can offer coffee by a pressing pot.
As per STARBUCKS, the serving way extracts full flavor of coffee beans.
Coffee by a pressing pot is available at  some of other STARBUCKS units.
But time available and beans for the serving way are limited.
Here you can choose one from a wide selection list at any time.

After several minutes from my order at the counter, my coffee was brought to my seat by a pressing pot with a cream pot, sugar pot and a sand clock on a tray.  It requires four minutes to wait after a boild water is poured in the pot.
The sand clock tells us when the coffee is ready.
The smaller cup with the logo mark is another offer from the shop. A sample menu dripped in normal STARBUCKS way. Then I could compare how different these two coffee tasts were.
The longer I had to wait to get a cup of coffee but the better one I could get.

Cafe name: STARBUCKS Roppongi Hills WEST WALK Lounge

Address: 1st floor, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo

From mothers all over the world - newsDELI

NewsDELI is a casual restaurant providing variety of international foods in deli-style.
On October 2007, it launched a seriese of deli food called "Present from mothers all over the world" and it is introducing home cooking meals from various countries.

For example, what I had this time are...; Mousaka from Greece, Cuscus salad from Tunisia etc

It offers more than ten of deli selection in the showcase as well as drinks such as international brand beer.

Restaurant name: NewsDELI Yurakucho 
Address: 3-6-11 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Website: http://www.news-deli.com/

Museum cafe - Cafe Sasyu Kanetanaka

An upscale Japanese traditional restaurant(Ryotei) produced a cafe in Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. The terrace is a cozy place to have lunch or tea in Spring, Summer or Autumn after you visit the museum or the garden, when the weather is nice.

The cafe has a few kinds of lunch set menu, a combination of noodles and/or rice bowl with small side dishes. Of course the food quality is surely by the upscale restaurant, while the price is not too expensive as a cafe menu.

    

What I chose is a set of noodle "feicui" color with a piece of canard and a rice bowl with chicken "soboro" and scrambled egg.

The modern interior in the green environment is unique as a place to serve Japanese traditional plates.

The coffee cup was a little surprise for me. The one is normally for matcha(Japanese green tea).

The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum has a nice garden to walk around or to spend a sunny holiday afternoon.

Cafe name: Cafe Sasyu Kanetanaka (茶酒　金田中）
Address: Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum 5-21-9 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo