The restaurant Eiko and I went to today was just the
perfect balance between pleasant atmosphere, comfort, new-age music and
original and refined Japanese food.
The pictures on the Lois
Crayon website do not really give justice to the reality of this
restaurant, located on the top floors of the Lumine1 department store in
Shinjuku.
The place manages to renew traditional dishes and bring a new life and a new
refined taste to the the things you thought you had already eaten dozen of
times.
The prices are quite acceptable for a restaurant of this quality; the set including two cold apetizers, a main dish, rice, miso soup and desert being priced at 2,500.
Eiko told me there is an even better Japanese restaurant in the same building, so I can't wait to go there.
However, I believe this tonight's one shines by the originality of the cooking and the delicacy of the dishes; so when on top of that, you put a nice music and a great atmosphere, it is easy to understand that this place has just become one of my favourite Japanese restaurants in Tokyo.
The company's Christmas party was at the Hong-Kong
Garden this year and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the
quality of the food in this Chinese restaurant in the middle of Tokyo,
although my mom's cooking remains the best ;-) (just had to cover myself, just
in case she reads that!)
On top of that, Chinese acrobats (I don't know if
they were readers...)
were entertaining the audience with a show like the ones of the Circus of
China you see on TV: lady on a monocyle tossing up plates and cups to put them
on her head, balance exercise on a pile of chairs, etc.
Of course, I did take pictures, and under the pressure of Fred, they're already online!
All in all, that was a very successful party, not to mention that I even won something at the lottery for the first time in 4 years :), so Eiko and I will be spending one lovely evening at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
