Dome: a bit of an unfortunate use of good ingredients

Area:  about 300m south of Kokusai Centre Station  国際センター駅
Restaurant:  Dome  ドメ
Website and Map: http://www.domestic.jp/access/

Hours:  Lunch 11am-2pm (Mon-Fri only), Dinner 5-12pm (1am on Fri and Sat, LO 1 hr before close), closed Sun



This teishoku lunch (Japanese style set meal) restaurant serves lunch until 2 pm, after that they are an izakaya at night.  A quick look at their website tells me that they specialize in using only what's freshly available and local.  It seemed a bit more modern than your regular teishoku shop, so I wanted to try it out.  

Unfortunately, the most popular item, the grilled fish was sold out.  Thus I went for the next popular item it seemed (pork steak ¥1200).

The sato imo was served chilled, probably simmered and had a light, sweet soy base glaze. The pork was not that fatty in the centre, but the circumference was all fat (in Japan they eat this fat and do not cut it off, it's rather tasty).  It was swimming in a thick, peppery worcestershire sauce; a bit too koi (rich, or thick) for my taste.  

The dashi-maki tamago (like an omlette made with egg mixed with dashi) and the hijiki (stewed seaweed) dish was very sweet.

The dessert was a vanilla pudding contained on a clear, warabi mochi-like layer (a sticky jelly).  It was soft and smooth, and somehow also had the flavor of matcha in it somewhere (maybe it had to do with the leaf it was wrapped in)

The undrinkable coffee was sour, and was probably sitting around for a long time.