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Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 66 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/3.2, ISO 6400 — map & image data
Lunch at Quarirengué
Kyoto, Japan

Yesterday was our twelfth wedding anniversary, so I took Fumie out for lunch.

I'd planned to take her to a particular restaurant I knew, until at almost the last moment I realized that they were closed (doh!), so I had to scramble for a new idea. I checked my go-to resource for restaurant info (Deep Kyoto's post archives) and quickly found one that looked perfect, a review of a cafe named “Quarirengué”. I have no idea how to pronounce it, but it looked nice.

They're mostly open for cakes and coffee, but we were hungry so partook of the two real-food items on the lunch menu: Fumie had the chicken pilaf (seen above), and I had the Japanese-style spicy curry. Both were great, but the pilaf was really great. And very filling.

Both come with a coffee and mini desert...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 48 mm — ¹/160 sec, f/3.2, ISO 1800 — map & image data
After-Meal Coffee
tasted and smelled as good coffee should: heavenly

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/2.8, ISO 6400 — map & image data
Mini Deserts
not much larger than a shot glass

The setting, as is growingly common, is a restored machiya traditional city house, along the same lines as featured in last year's “An Evening of Eclectic Music Fusion” post, though this time with wooden flooring instead of tatami matting.

The promise of the interesting coffee menu and decedent cake menu remains untested, something we will have to remedy.