Area: a couple of block north of Nagoya Station (Mont Blanc Hotel, モンブラン ホテル）
Restaurant: Mangiamo マンジャーモ
Website and Info: http://www.montblanc-hotel.jp/restaurant/mangiamo.html
Map: http://tabelog.com/aichi/A2301/A230101/23001559/
Hours: Breakfast 7-9:30am, Lunch 11:30am-2pm, Dinner 5:30-11pm
I was pretty surprised that even entering at 1:30pm, half an hour before last order, this restaurant was still bustling with diners coming and going. I thought this might be a good sign.
It immediately has a European feel from the outside, and even inside with the arches and the European jazzy music playing. They were a variety of lunches to choose from. They seem to have pride on the mix of Italian food and Japanese warmth. The menu and the two obachan waitresses gave his feel.
Salad was kind of warm like it was sitting out for a long time. The lemony vinaigrette dressing may have been better if served cold. It tasted like bottled lemon juice (not fresh). I chose the chicken sauté (\829). It had nice and crispy skin, although it was not the juiciest chicken thigh I've had. The mushroom cream sauce tasted of browned butter and went really nicely with the chicken. I liked that it had a lot of puréed mushroom in it and was not too heavy. The accompanying potato salad was standard. The bread was also a standard baguette, not warmed, but at least the butter was soft and spreadable.
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