Area: about 300m north of Marunouchi station 丸の内駅
Restaurant: Shokudo Cafe Nito 食堂カフェ 二兎
Map and Info: http://tabelog.com/aichi/A2301/A230102/23032533/dtlmap/
Hours: 11:30am-9:30pm (LO 9pm), closed Sundays and Holidays
Lunch is available until 3:30pm here. The special set of the day (¥800) was a Suzuki sauté oroshi-an and a harusame mapo. Rice and miso soup are all you can eat.
The dark brown wooden furniture and decor, counter seating and jazz music softly playing in the background, make for a modern, clean atmosphere. It's definitely a nice place to sit and relax.
It was actually more of a surprise set for me since I had no idea what oroshi-an and suzuki were. I immediately fell in love with this combo at first bite. Suzuki, it turns out, is a white fish similar to black cod. The meat was so moist, but the skin retained a crispiness to it from the pan-frying. The an refers to ankake (a sauce thickened by potato starch). This one was a dashi base (tasted and smelled like udon) and had grated daikon (the oroshi part) added to it. The harusame (clear vermicelli noodles) had a soft but slightly chewy texture. It was mixed with ground meat and it had heat from the red peppers. The cold tofu was seasoned with katsuo flakes, soy sauce and probably powdered ginger (tasted like how I eat it at home). The simple wakame red miso soup had a nice flavour to it. They probably make it from a home-made dashi.
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