Eclissi

Posted on 2006/04/22 06:18:37 (April 2006).

[Friday 21st April]
Poor old Chie wasn't a hundred percent today, but still bravely soldiered on into work, given that she apparently has a lot of things piled up, and her employer isn't particularly generous when it comes to sick leave (i.e. basically any days she takes of as sick, she pretty much has to work extra days later to make up the time).

Anywho, in the evening neither of us felt like cooking, so we met up after work at one of the two stations near our apartment, to get a quick bite to eat somewhere. We ended up going to a slightly posh looking restaurant called Eclissi. I'm always a little unconvinced by "posh" European-esque places in Japan - they tend to be very superficial indeed, and at times bordering on slightly comical (for example, the way they distribute cutlery, you can't help but wonder if they had some kind of training video they had to watch). Clearly there are expensive Japanese places as well, and these are highly professional etc... but it's just typically when they try to do European it ends up seeming a bit, well, daft...

The food was, well, OK I suppose. One of our starters was a bit rediculous, and my main course was more like a starter really... but luckily neither of us were particularly hungry so we didn't mind the smaller portions so much.

After that just went home really.

I feel sorry for Chie. Hope she'll get better a.s.a.p.

Posted by Sheri at 2006/04/22 22:10:31.

I know what you mean about the pseudo euro style....
I experienced an Italian restuarant in Tokyo with a Japanese waiter who insisted on "mincing" about pretending to be Italian complete with Italian accent even though he was speaking Japanese... Pretty cool

Posted by Jerry at 2006/04/23 22:51:09.

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