【 謹賀新年 】 謹んで新春のお祝いを申し上げます。 皆々様におかれましては、清々しいお気持ちで新春をお迎えのこととお慶び申し上げます。 昨年は多くのお力添えを頂き誠に有難う御座いました。 我が家は今年も卯年に相応しい飛...
..."Christmas Dinner at Home with My Beloved Dog, Chocolat, on This Holy Night 2022"
Christmas is a time to spend with loved ones on this holy night. How did you all spend your Christmas? In our family, every year we don't go out for dinner during the crowded Christmas season; instead, we have a quiet Christmas dinner at home...
..."A Christmas party where we invite Mr. and Mrs. Iketeru to enjoy a full course meal prepared by a private chef."
One evening in December, as the real cold weather arrived, I invited a couple of friends to my home for an early Christmas party, where we enjoyed a full-course Italian dinner prepared by a private chef! The antique lighting in the dining room...
...Mimosa Chocolaterie, a specialty chocolate shop in Hamamatsu, offers fragrant chocolates perfect for giving to someone special.
If you're looking for high-quality chocolate, head to "Mimosa Chocolaterie," a chocolate specialty shop located along the Kanazashi Kaido road in Neaicho, Kita-ku, Hamamatsu City. Look for the yellow awning and gold sign...
..."NO'AGE concentré" reopens in Takajo, offering a pairing course where you can enjoy sake, tea, snacks, and sweets.
"BAR NO'AGE," which has delighted many bar enthusiasts for 6 and a half years in Fukuroi and 21 years as an authentic bar in Shichikencho, Shizuoka City, has "condensed and concentrated" the various encounters and experiences it has gained so far, and is now located a little away from the city center...
...Hamamatsu's "Yakitori Hadashi": Enjoy carefully grilled yakitori over binchotan charcoal, served omakase (chef's choice) until you tell them to stop!
Located in Sanarudai 2-chome, a quiet residential area away from the hustle and bustle of the city, "Yakitori Hadashi," a charcoal-grilled yakitori specialty restaurant, opened in December 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since it's quite close to my home by Lake Sanaru, I was happy to see a yakitori restaurant open nearby, and I posted about it on Instagram...
...Hamamatsu Chinese Restaurant "Ibe": Enjoy delicate and refined flavors of Chinese cuisine that is gentle on the stomach.
After training under Chef Shizuo Miyamoto of "Seika," a renowned Chinese restaurant in Hamamatsu known to those in the know (which closed in March 2007 and is now operating as "Kyo, Seika" in Kyoto), Chef Ibe opened his own Chinese restaurant, "Chinese Restaurant Ibe," in Kaminishi-cho on May 15, 2008.
...70St. (Nanamaru Studio) is a general store and cafe in Hamamatsu, a renovated former watch shop filled with the owner's passion and attention to detail.
Lunchtime at "70St. (Nanamaru Studio)," a general store and cafe that opened on May 30, 2021, along the Yuto Kaido road, which was once lined with over 100 shops and bustling with activity! The "70" in the shop's name comes from the owner, Naoto Kawai's name...
...Hamamatsu's "Chinese Restaurant Wakabayashi (Rurin)" offers popular, affordable lunches that carry on the authentic taste of Chen Mapo Tofu!
In Hamamatsu, in a residential area south of the Hamamatsu West Post Office in Nishi-Iba, I went to "Chuka Wakabayashi (Rurin)" for a Chinese lunch in search of authentic Chen Mapo Tofu! The lunch menu is posted at the entrance, and you can choose from five main dishes. Lunchtime...
...Plum Preservation 2022: Homemade Pickled Plums - A New Way to Make Colorful Pickled Plums Using Granulated Sugar
Following our annual tradition of making homemade plum wine, let's try making homemade pickled plums as another plum-related activity! This year, we managed to get our hands on 16 kg of beautiful Nanko plums, so we used 15 kg for homemade plum wine, but decided to make homemade pickled plums for ourselves...
...A birthday cake from Hamamatsu patisserie "Abondance," a popular patisserie from France!
If you're looking for a blue cake shop along Sumiyoshi Street in Hamamatsu, look no further than Patisserie Abondance! Abondance means "corn d'bondance" (horn of fertility), which is considered very auspicious in France. The owner-patissier...
...藤枝フレンチ「L’AGAPE ラガップ」変わらぬ美味しさが嬉しいクラシカルなフランス料理店
藤枝市青葉町の青島中学校通り沿いのテナントビルの一角にあるフランス料理レストラン「L’AGAPE(ラガップ)」にて、久し振りに藤枝ランチへ! こちらのお店は、オーナーシェフの松下 崇之(Takayuki Matsusit...
...