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🇫🇷 French Bistro / 📍 Azabu-Juban

📓 Visits: 1 (2024)

Lunch and dinner menus are on the restaurant's website in Japanese and partly in French.  I went for the 4-course lunch at JPY 4,400, which is the cheapest option at lunch.  The same course menu is available for JPY 5,500 on weekday dinners only.  There's also a weekday dinner only 3-course menu at JPY 2,530.

Cold pea soup needed a deeper flavour of peas to score any more than 7.5.  For starter I chose the smoked salmon.  The salmon itself was exemplary but the garnish was a bit boring.  9.5/10 for the salmon, 7.5/10 for the garnish.  Not much flavour from the main course of roast pork but the sauce was decent.  7.5/10.  For dessert I chose nougat glace.  It came with a fennel tuille and a cardamon and fennel sauce.  An original twist on a classic, this was superb.  8.5-9/10.  The menu states bread, olive oil and butter are charged (220 yen each).  I didn't ask for any bread but was given some brioche (which was OK) and it was replaced twice, without asking and without charge.

The restaurant has held a Bib Gourmand for eight years.  If you're in Azabu-Juban then you'd be quite happy with this for 5k but the food at Bistro Inocchi in Nakameguro (review here) is better and it's better value.

📌 https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1307/A130702/13184805/

❓ My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ 3.75

📱 Booking: 🟩 Reservations are not required but the restaurant was full on my weekend lunch visit so I recommend making one.  You can book online up-to-the minute via Tabelog for two or more people.  If you're dining alone you'll need to phone.  No English menu.  No English spoken.

📍 Location: 2-5-21 Azabu-Juban.  6 mins south down Azabu Dori from Azabu-Juban station Exit 2.
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📶 Free WiFi? ❌ No

📅 Visit May 2024

🕛 Lunch 4,400

Pea soup
Smoked salmon
Roast pork
Nougat glace
Coffee (or tea)

💴 Damage: 5,280 (4400 + 1 drink @880)

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