Area: about 350m northwest of Marunouchi Station 丸の内駅
Restaurant: Yururito ゆるり人
Map and Info: http://tabelog.com/aichi/A2301/A230102/23007763/
Hours: 7:30am - 5:30pm, closed Sundays and Holidays
I don't often eat Japanese curry because it usually all tastes very similar; just like the type you can find in the supermarket and just add water to. However, this cafe only sells vegetable curry (under 1000 yen) along with a variety of toasts (toasted bread with different toppings to choose from such as pizza, honey, cheese, tuna, etc). Today's curry was a mushroom and kabu (turnip) one. Although kabu translates as turnip, it is different than the yellow turnip I'm used to. Japan's kabu is white, and reminds me more of parsnip although rounder. It also had onion and komatsuna (a green leafy vegetable with stalks like bak choy, but thinner). It came with homemade cucumber tsukemono (pickled in salt). It was a little less salty than store bought, but that just made it refreshing inbetween the bites of spicy curry. The curry was a little different. The strong flavor of typical Japanese curry was still there, but it had a fruity, almost buttery pear like essence. When I asked, I was able to find out that there was apple, an enormous amount of onions, and tomato in it.
The accompanying coffee was a medium roast with a nice toasty flavour. And it came with the leftover coffee in the mini coffee pot so i could get 2 cups of coffee! Not only that, the meal came with a pre-meal, on the house sweet coffee jelly snack and afterwards, the cafe's specialty pudding for dessert. The coffee jelly had a whitish sauce with just the right amount of sweetness to enjoy before a meal like an appetizer. The pudding was light, milky in flavour and had an may have included white chocolate in it.
The wooden furniture and orchestral music made it feel homey. It has its share of regular customers coming and going, so although it looks empty in the photo, it was quite popular.
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