Area: About 600m from Kamejima Station 亀島駅 (Higashiyama line), or 10min Northeast from the east exit of Nagoya station
Restaurant: Cafe de Campagne カフェドカンパーニュ
Map and Info: http://tabelog.com/aichi/A2301/A230101/23031922/dtlmap/
Hours: Mon-Fri 7am-10pm, Sat 7am-5pm, closed Sundays and holidays
It's not often that I get out for breakfast since I like to lounge around in my PJ's while drinking my morning coffee, but once in a while, I'll have the urge to have a morning set in a Japanese cafe.
Today was one of those days and I found myself at Cafe de Campagne. Despite the French name, there's nothing French about this cafe. It's basically an old kissaten (Japanese style coffee house) with tables that give a diner feel. But the wire rack on the counter area gives it an open-kitchen, modern essence (not entirely sure this was the shop's intent though).
The "morning" (370円) includes a drink, half a slice of thick, buttered toast with a choice of jam or sweet red bean paste topping, a hard boiled egg, and a mini dessert cup of the day. The coffee was a bit on the 'sitting-around-for a long time' side, but wasn't undrinkable. The mini dessert was a coffee jelly on top of a milk pudding. It wasn't overly sweet so it balanced out the sweetness of the bean paste toast and the bitterness of the coffee jelly. Let me say that sweet red bean paste and melted butter is a match made in heaven! Kids growing up in Nagoya and aichi area seem to have grown up eating this, so it's become a Nagoya specialty.
All this for the price of one coffee; this is what makes morning great.
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