Area: 200m east of Kokusai Center Station 国際センター駅
Restaurant: La Foglietta ラ フォッリエッタ
Website and Map: http://www.la-foglietta.com/
Hours: Lunch 11:30am-3pm (LO 2pm), Dinner 5:30-12pm, Closed Sundays
There's a bar at the front decorated with jars and cans filled with Italian import ingredients, and by a line of wine bottles. The opera music, deep brown wooden tables and counter and the dim lighting gave it a kind of fine dining feel.
The business lunch (¥900) includes an appetizer plate, all you can eat bread and a choice of one of two daily pastas. For ¥100 extra you can add a soup or coffee.
The soup of the day seemed interesting; it was an endomame (pea) soup. The seasoning was mild, making the flavor of the beans shine, with a milky aftertaste. I actually ordered a second cup!
On the appetizer plate was a salad with a creamy dressing, strong on the olive oil flavor. The egg fritatta had tuna mixed throughout. The potato gratin was delicious, with slighty chewy browned edges and cheese.
The bread was apparently housemade. There were two types; a sourdough and a regular baguette. The flavors were nice, but it seemed as if it were sitting out for a bit; slighty dry and cold.
Today's pasta choices were a pork ragu or a mushroom and spinach cream sauce. I chose the latter; it was a simple and light cream sauce, but was nicely seasoned (perhaps using only a small amount of butter in the roux, a slight sprinkling of salt and a drizzle of olive oil). The menu said tomato was there, but I could only see tiny bits of tomato skin. Perhaps the juices were used. Overall a nice flavor, but I'm a fresh pasta snob and I like my pastas with lots of veggies or meat, so to me this one was kind of lacking. However, it's a good deal for a quick lunch, and it seems to be a popular place according to the star reviews on the internet.
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