Marunouchi Spagecchi: once a year is good enough

Area:  1 block east of Marunouchi station 丸の内駅
Restaurant:  Marunouchi Spagecchi  丸の内スパゲッチー
Map and Info:  http://tabelog.com/en/aichi/A2301/A230102/23053199/

Hours:  Lunch 11am-3pm,  Dinner 5-9pm, closed Sundays and Holidays


This is a meat sauce spaghetti senmonten (a restaurant that specializes in one dish).  Senmonten's are an interesting concept because they usually serve variations of one dish.  I often wonder how frequently regular customers will visit.

These spaghetti noodles were soft, almost like yaki-soba noodles, but boiled.  The sauce was sweet, similar to a pasta senmonten I visited before called “And”.  The eggplant topping (\850) was not too soft and had a nice char.  The crab cream croquette was standard, but the white sauce in it did go well with the meat sauce.  The slice of bread had a mashed potato spread, just like potato-mayo salad.

I did come back, but a year later, and had the spinach topping, which was just boiled spinach with no seasoning (I had to use lots of Kraft-like grated cheese).  This is perhaps a once-in-a-year go-to senmonten.