Area: Sunroad (the underground shopping area on the east side of Nagoya station) サンロード
Restaurant: Chapeau Blanc シャポーブラン
Website and Info: http://www.bc-cake.com/chapeau_blanc/shop_sunroad.php
Hours:: 7:30am-9:30pm (9pm on Sundays)
It's not often you find such a great deal like this in Japan. It's one of the reasons why Nagoya is famous for their “morning”, or drink and breakfast set for the price of just the drink!
At this restaurant, however, the bread and eggs are all you can eat! There's a huge variety of bread to choose from, and the great thing is that they are cut into small pieces so you can try almost all of them. On my plate was every kind that was out there at the time. The cake donut was not oily, and only had a slight sweetness to it. The sandwich which I put in the toaster oven (there for anyone to use), was actually a potato salad sandwich.
I was glad to see a whole wheat roll since whole wheat seems to be rare in Japanese restaurants. I toasted it a little more than I hoped, but it was still nice and moist on the inside. Like typical Japanese bread, it too had a hint of sweetness to it. For me, this is the one that stood out the most, plain and simple but it had a denseness to it that the others didn't.
The croissant with icing was more like a danish, filled with a gooey apple jam. The brown pastry with perhaps black sesame flecks was filled with a sweet butterscotch filling. The pastries were more like sweet bread, not very flaky.
There were two types of melon bread (not actually containing melon, just that the cookie topping has a melon look to it). One was a bitter chocolate chip. It was not so sweet, and kind of dry but I guess that's expected when it's been cut in quarters and is sitting out for a bit. The other one, yellowish in colour, was a lemon flavored. The swirly patterned bread was a raisin margarine roll, and was great with an additional slather of margarine.
I was glad to see a whole wheat roll since whole wheat seems to be rare in Japanese restaurants. I toasted it a little more than I hoped, but it was still nice and moist on the inside. Like typical Japanese bread, it too had a hint of sweetness to it. For me, this is the one that stood out the most, plain and simple but it had a denseness to it that the others didn't.
The croissant with icing was more like a danish, filled with a gooey apple jam. The brown pastry with perhaps black sesame flecks was filled with a sweet butterscotch filling. The pastries were more like sweet bread, not very flaky.
There were two types of melon bread (not actually containing melon, just that the cookie topping has a melon look to it). One was a bitter chocolate chip. It was not so sweet, and kind of dry but I guess that's expected when it's been cut in quarters and is sitting out for a bit. The other one, yellowish in colour, was a lemon flavored. The swirly patterned bread was a raisin margarine roll, and was great with an additional slather of margarine.
It was all a good deal, but I feel that the bread didn't really stand out. The coffee was fresh though, and that's what you're paying for anyways; the rest is free!
I was pleasantly surprised when I heard my favorites by Lisa Loeb, Jack's Mannequin and even the not so well known Ben Jelen playing over the speakers. So although bustling with people going up for seconds, it was a relaxing atmosphere with the easy listening for my ears.
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