{"id":1526,"date":"2010-05-17T23:32:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-05-17\/1526"},"modified":"2010-05-17T23:32:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:32:52","slug":"anniversary-lunch-at-kyotos-quarirengue-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-05-17\/1526","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary Lunch, at Kyoto&#8217;s Quarirengu\u00e9 Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1526'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"033001\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_033001.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_033001_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Lunch at Quarirengu&amp;eacute; Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033001\"\ntitle=\"Lunch at Quarirengu&amp;eacute; Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 66 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>125 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_033001.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/karirenge.exblog.jp\/\">Quarirengu&eacute;<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/>Kyoto, Japan\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Yesterday was our twelfth wedding anniversary, so <span class='nobr'>I took<\/span> Fumie out for\nlunch.<\/p>\n\n<p>I'd planned to take her to a particular restaurant <span class='nobr'>I knew,<\/span> until at\nalmost the last moment <span class='nobr'>I realized<\/span> that they were closed (<i>doh<\/i>!), so <span class='nobr'>I\nhad<\/span> to scramble for <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> idea. <span class='nobr'>I checked<\/span> my go-to resource for restaurant\ninfo (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepkyoto.com\/\">Deep Kyoto<\/a>'s post archives)\nand quickly found one that looked perfect, a <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.deepkyoto.com\/cafes\/quarirengue\/\">review of <span class='nobr'>a cafe<\/span> named\n&#8220;Quarirengu&eacute;&#8221;<\/a>. <span class='nobr'>I have no<\/span> idea how to pronounce it,\nbut it looked nice.<\/p>\n\n<p>They're mostly open for cakes and coffee, but we were hungry so partook\nof the two real-food items on the lunch menu: Fumie had the chicken pilaf\n(seen above), and <span class='nobr'>I had<\/span> the Japanese-style spicy curry. Both were great,\nbut the pilaf was <i>really<\/i> great. <span class='nobr'>And very filling<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Both come with a coffee and mini desert...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"033011\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_033011.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_033011_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"After-Meal Coffee tasted and smelled as good coffee should: heavenly -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033011\"\ntitle=\"After-Meal Coffee tasted and smelled as good coffee should: heavenly -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 48 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>160 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 1800 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_033011.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>After-Meal Coffee<\/span>\n<br\/>tasted and smelled as good coffee should: <i>heavenly<\/i>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"033018\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_033018.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_033018_sm.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\"\nalt=\"Mini Deserts not much larger than a shot glass -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033018\"\nindexhint=\"bottom\"\ntitle=\"Mini Deserts not much larger than a shot glass -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>125 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_033018.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Mini Deserts<\/span>\n<br\/>not much larger than a shot glass\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The setting, as is growingly common, is <span class='nobr'>a restored<\/span> <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machiya\">machiya<\/a> traditional city\nhouse, along the same lines as featured in last year's &#8220;<a class='pt'\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-09-20\/1316\">An Evening of Eclectic Music\nFusion<\/a>&#8221; post, though this time with wooden flooring instead of <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tatami\">tatami<\/a> matting.<\/p>\n\n<p>The promise of the interesting coffee menu and decedent cake menu remains\nuntested, something we will have to remedy.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was our twelfth wedding anniversary, so I took Fumie out for lunch.<\/p> <p>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 \"Quarirengu&eacute;\". I have no idea how to pronounce it, but it looked nice.<\/p> <p>They're mostly open for cakes and coffee, but we were hungry so partook of the two [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}