Afternoon Tea Tearoom; For a light, veggie packed meal

Area:  Meitetsu Department Store at Nagoya Station 5F
Restaurant:  Afternoon Tea Room 　アフタヌーンティー　ティールーム
Website:  http://www.afternoon-tea.net/pc/about/index.html

Hours:  10am-8pm (Lunch served until 5pm)


This cafe was filled with mostly women, but that can be expected when the color and furniture makes you feel as if you were taking a break from baking in your country home.  It's great that meals are served until 5pm; I don't have to rush to get there before lunch hours are over.

It seems all the lunch menu items contain plenty of vegetables (also something women would like), but I wanted some protein so I ordered the spanish omelette plate (1360 yen).   The salad was a mix of iceberg lettuce, parsley, a bit of dill, baby greens, a leaf of arugula and was topped with a yellow and red tomato, a slice of prosciutto, and a green bean and drizzled with a simple onion and olive oil vinaigrette.  Japanese salads often contain only of each vegetable, almost as if there just for decoration (I always feel like it needs more!).

The omelette, like a crustless quiche had a base layer of potato which was topped with soft broccoli, green beans (sora mame), onion and a hint of cheese was in there too. The potato's skin was left on making it more healthy.  It was only lightly seasoned, making the flavour of the vegetables pleasantly noticeable.  

The bread was lightly buttered and toasted over corn grits. It's great if they don't over toast it (2 of the 3 pieces were too crunchy and dry). 

There is a choice of different teas and coffees that come with the meal.  I chose the Afternoon Tea original blend.  It's a blend of different black tea flavours, but kind of just tasted like regular Lipton's black tea to me.  I tried both, and I would recommend adding milk over a lemon in this tea, or even drinking it straight.  Somehow the lemon's bitterness was brought out in this tea.