Taking the Crossroad is an adventure

Area:  a 10 min walk south of Nagoya Station, 3 min from Sasashima Raibu station (ささしまライブ駅） on the Aonami Line.  1st floor of the JICA building

Restaurant: Cafe Crossroad カフェクロスロード

Website and info: http://www.jica.go.jp/nagoya-hiroba/information/access.html

Hours: Lunch 11:30am-2pm, Cafe time 2pm-5:30pm, Dinner 5:30pm-9pm

This is the type of cafe that you'll want to come back to multiple times, especially if you like to eat something different than the usual fare you can find easily in Japan.  Every month they put out a new special lunch menu that features a dish from a different part of the world.  

Sorry for the late post (holiday season is busy, isn't it?), but this lunch menu was from December.  To give you an idea of what this cafe serves, I had the Jordan dish.  It featured grilled chicken, vegetable pilaf, vegetable soup, salad, and grilled veggies (700円）.  First off, this is a good deal, as the coffee and tea is all you can drink, and today's Guatemala fair trade coffee was delicious with the right amount of bitterness and fullness.  The chicken had a bit of spiciness and the flavour of garlic was strong.  I'm not sure if this is authentic, but I enjoyed it along with the juiciness of the dark meat.  The soup was nice, but it tasted almost as if there was chicken broth in it (despite the claim of veggie soup).  There was some sort of oil floating around in it, and I'm not so sure it was olive oil or such (good thing I'm not a vegetarian).  The grilled eggplant was a nice match to this plate.  I enjoyed the jasmine rice used for the pilaf since I've been craving something other than short-grained rice.  

Other lunch fare included a dish from Thailand, and another from Vietnam.  Overall, a great lunch, and I can't wait for the chance to go back and try something new! And get drunk on fair trade coffee.