Répertoire

Hotel Seiyo Ginza is one of the luxury hotel featuring top quality service in Tokyo, but it will be closed on 31st of May this year. Before it will be closed, I had very fancy lunch at the resturant "Répertoire" with my friend today. The resturant serves French dishes and we ordered the prefix course. Two appetizers and one entree we could choose from the menu, and the dessert and coffee come with the course.

Saumon Fumé Tiède à la Crème d’Aneth au Citron Vert

(Warmed Smoke Salmon with the Dill and Lime Cream Sauce)

It looks raw, but it was warm a littile bit. It was so good! I wanted eat more.

Potage du Jour(Today's Soup)

It was made from "Saladana"(Type of lettace) 

Marché du Pêcheur Braisé, Sauce Beurre Blanc aux Petits Légumes
(Steamed Alfonsino Fish and Baked Risotto with the Cream Sauce)

Dessert and Coffee

The Dessert cart came to our table. Fifteen kinds of dessert were on the cart and we could have as many as we want. For me, the dessert was the main of the dishes :)  The resturant gave us free refills on coffee.

I wanted to have a lunch at least once before they close. The service and all the dishes were pretty nice and I really want to have it one more time by the end of May.

International Orchid Festival 2013

International Orchid Festival was held from 2/16-2/24 at Tokyo Dome. My father sent me a invitation ticket during that week, and I went there alone(He sent me only one ticket...) It was the second time to visit there, and I was there with my father last time. I didn't know much about orchids, but I was grown surrounded by orchids because of my father.(Please see "my father's works" tab) Surprisingly, there were so many people when I got there. Were Orchids that much popular?

Many orchids were decorated at the entrance, and people were taking the pictures with the flowers.

Bunch of Cattleya

It was really gorgeous!

The Idea of decorating "Phalaenopsis orchid." I want to try this, too.

 Individual Review Division

These three I bought from Taiwanese flower shops. The next day was the end of the festival, so all the flower shops started a discount. All three were selling at 500 yen.

The shop owner said, this one will last for 1.5 months or more. I'm glad I could get them a good deal. Smile :) 

Celebration!

The first working day of this year, one of my co-worker annouced she will get married this fall. Another good friend of mine in my company and her, we three sometimes have dinner after work and go out on weekend, but we haven't heard she was dating with someone... We were so surprised with this big news and made a plan for asking her many questions. :)

The place we got together was "Ekki Bar & Grill" at Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo by her request. We odered the "Premium Ekki afternoon tea" and stay there until the waiter asked us to leave.(The tea time is from 2:30pm to 6:00pm)

Welcome drink(right) and seasonal smoothie(left)

The somoothie only comes with premium afternoon tea.

All the foods and desserts are on the same tray.  Foods and drinks were all set. It was  time for askining questions to her! :)

Mini Wagyu Cheese Burger with Onion Confit and Grain Mustard(+Foie Gras, it's for premium afternoon tea only)
Assorted Field Mushrooms & Pork Bacon Quiche

Seasonal Fresh Fruit Basket

Mont Blanc Cake

Pumpkin Pudding with Caramel Sauce

Snow Crab Cake & Remoulade Sauce

Smoked Salmon Tortilla Wrap

Soft Caramel Nuts Tart

Raspberry “Churros” with Earl Gray Dip

Home-made Scones with Clotted Cream - Vanilla and Dried Figs

Three types of honey for scones.

There are a whopping many teas to choose from, as well as coffees and hot chocolates – We can try as many different beverages as we like, and as much as we like. We were so much concentrated chatting, so we could not try many drinks this time :(

Truffle Popcorn(This is also only for premium afternoon tea)

Japanese tea and royal milk tea.

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi is located besides Tokyo station, so we could see the station from the restaurant.

Spanish Dinner

Happy New Year! :) I know it's too late to say it... I was planning to post this story right after the New Year's break, so I said so... Well, I spent my New Year's break from 12/28-1/4 with my family in my home town and came back to Tokyo in the afternoon on 1/4. Soon I came back to Tokyo, I went out for New Year's shopping after I dropped my suitcase in my apartment.

My frined and I made the plan to have a dinner that night, but we didn't decide where we eat. The restaurant "Spain club, Ginza" has been on my mind since it has opened in Ginza, and I asked to her to try this restaurant this time. This is the branch resturant which original resturant is in Tsukishima, and I have been there once.

The restaurant has two floors, and the first floor is a Spain style Bar and the second floor is the formal resturant. The food price is different, and the second floor is bit expensive compared with the bar. This time we had the dinner at the resturant on the second floor.

Navarra white asparagus salad

Conger eel cooked with Tomato

                  Fried Artichoke wrapped in Ham                    Garlic Mushroom

One of the lighting cover was made by the colorful glass plates, and I like the idea. It was really nice.

Spanish Meat ball

All the dishes we had was really good, but the only thing I was really surprised was the price of the bread. Can you see the small bread in the picture? It costs 300 yen for each. Expensive!!! I almost started laughing when I saw it, "So small!" We ordered two breads and I expected the size is bigger than they brought to our table. I just thought it was a kind of joke or something... I won't order the bread next time I have a meal there.

Today's Paella

Kitchen

The resturant sells the Spanish foods such as cheese, canned foods, jam. Spanish wine is also sold near the entrance.

Afternoon tea at Mandarin Oriental Hotel

Mandarin Oriental Hote, Tokyo.

First time to have an afternoon tea at this hotel for me, so I was excited from the morning:) It is located in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. 

My friend and I made this plan last year, and she booked our table.

While we were having the tea, we heard the conversation between the waitor and the women sit next us. Their conversation was if we sit near the window, we can't stay more than 2 hours, but if we don't request the seat near the window, they are allowed to stay until the dinner time, 6:00PM.We were seated in the middile of the room.

Iced Ginger Tea.

Sandwich Assortment

Open Face Sandwich of Smoked Chicken and Marinated Red Cabbage

Foie Gras Parfait and Sweet Potato Mousse with Champange Jelly

Salmon Rillette with Persimmon and Cream Cheese Tartlet

Pork Ham with Cucumber and Potato Salad Sandwich

3 Kinds of Scone

Plain, Chocolate Chip and Cranberry

 

Pre Dessert

Chocolate Jelly

Mandarin Oriental Tokyo Selection Tea

I had the tea above(Ginger tea and Mandarin Oriental Tokyo Selection Tea), Earl Grey, Assam, Orange Chocolat and Caffe Latte.

Slected Petits Fours

Pistacchio Macaron

Strawberry Tartlet

Praline Cream Puff

Chestnut Pie

Fresh Cheese Mousse

Hazelnut Cookie

Sour Plum Sesame Stick Pie

After the lights were dimmed, the candles were lit. We didn't know we chatted for almost 4 1/2hours since we got the restraunt.

There are four restaurants on 38th floor and I saw some people were killing time on the sofa until their company come.

Can you guess from where I took this picture?

It is the view from the restroom(I guess the view from the men's restroom is the same as women's) It's hard to see the skytree in this picture, but you can see it very nicely from the restroom day and night. You can see this view even you don't have a meal at any resturant, you just need to go to the restroom after you got off the elevator :P