Sakura at Meguro and 果実園 リーベル 目黒店

果実園 リーベル 目黒店 

Website: http://kajitsuen.jp/

Mish and I dropped by Kajitsuen, near Meguro station for dinner one night after work as we wanted to check out the Sakura at Meguro.

I checked Tabelog to see if there were any interesting shops in that area and found that this was the most popular shop in that area for cakes.

True enough, when we arrive there was a queue outside the restaurant.

I ordered their 4 kinds of berries cake that included strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and black berries at 1480yen before tax. Definitely the most expensive fruit cake I've ever had in my life! 

But the cake was good as the sponge cake at the bottom was light and fluffy, and the cream was not that sweet.

After dinner, we walked along the river from Meguro to Naka-meguro.

I was happy because the sakura was pretty and as I've been here last year, it was during the day.

Sakura was pretty weird this year as many predicted that full bloom would be the week before, but it did not happen.

While it started blooming early this year, full bloom was late.

So pretty~

Even after the petals have fallen, they still looked pretty.

Can't get enough of the fallen petals.

Beautiful place for an evening stroll.

This is one of the most common sakura tree in Japan - somei yoshino (ソメイヨシノ).

Look at the pretty pattern!

おでん かしみん (Oden Kashimin) at Marunouchi

Summary of the first week of April.

Snacks on our day back in school as prepared by Miss. P~ :D

Sakura, along the way to the other building. 

Lunch with colleagues at McD after our morning meeting.

Dinner with Mish at Oden Kashimin (おでん かしみん), which is one of my favourite restaurant in Marunouchi.

Website: https://r.gnavi.co.jp/gb46006/

Counter seat this time and we got a good view of the oden pot.

Casis orange (650 yen) and the otoushi which is like an appetiser that you can't reject. Most izakaya charges a certain fee for every customer and in return, they provide a small dish. Here, the charge is 500 yen per pax.

The soup is the same chicken based soup used in the oden but with and added grilled chicken wing. You get to taste their rich chicken broth with the added fragrant from the grilled chicken wing. While the konbu in it has lost all it's flavour into the soup, it was still tasty.

Bacon and cheese (480 yen)

Daikon (290 yen). The picture above showed 1/2 of the daikon. As it was big, they cut it into half for us. The best oden daikon you will ever get in Tokyo!!! They even provide tororo konbu for you.

Also, the broth that they used had a hint of yuzu as you can see from the picture above, there's a small piece of yuzu rind on the daikon.

This here again is another way to enjoy their chicken broth. This is the tsukune (300 yen)! Absolutely delicious and classy~

Here's how their menu look like.

Only 2 pages but good enough.

サンドッグイン神戸屋 八重洲店

While I was searching for places with good sandwiches online, I came across this restaurant called Sandog Inn (サンドッグイン神戸屋 八重洲店) near Tokyo station which serves all-you-can-eat bread at only 994 yen after tax.

Website: https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1302/A130201/13115043/

Decided to try it one day with Mish. We were there at noon on a weekend and there was a really long queue outside. I think we queued for about 30mins.

As you can see, it's really worth your money . The set comes with soup of the day, drink of choice and a plate for your bread/ sandwiches.

First you pay at the counter and get your tray before heading to the bread counter.

As you can see the selection is not too bad. There are actually more choices but I only picked the ones that I want to eat and if they're good, I repeat my choice.

23 pieces of bread in total!

After lunch, we headed to Koishikawa Korakuen for sakura but apparently, that's what everyone in town had in mind!

The queue to enter had more than 500 people. This line here circled around the garden. We walked to to the end of the line and decided not to join the queue.

Instead we moved on to Chidorigafuchi.

Was just here the night before, but the day view was good too.

First time at Yasukuni Shrine~

This shrine always make the headline of news all around the world.

There was a festival going on there that day and hence there were many people.

Looks like sakura have bloomed here too.

As there were many people there, we left pretty quickly.

Happenings

As spring approaches, beautiful flowers started blooming everywhere. Here's one with my colleague and her amazing wig.

First time at Chidorigafuchi for night sakura.

Pretty~ 

I wanna be on that boat one day.

While the light up was pretty, many of the flowers have not bloomed yet.

Walked past Yasukuni shrine on the way to dinner.

First time walking by this area.

Dinner with the group at Saizeriya after yozakura.