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🗺Nara, near Nara Park
A former factory office turned into a cafe!
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Former factory office room🏭.
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Homemade plum soda!
One large plum is submerged in the goron and you pour your own soda water 🖖🍾✨
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There were many other Japanese style menu items such as green tea and zenzai 🍡🍡.
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The interior of the restaurant is just as retro as the exterior, making it perfect for a date 🍡 *
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I have been wanting to go there for a long time!
Yes, this is the place I've wanted to go for a long, long time!
I used to wander around Nara a lot when I was in high school.
Riding the Kintetsu train, looking for places where the scenery was different from what it used to be...
I get off at Shin-Omiya station, one step before Nara station.
I met my friend at the station and we walked about 15 minutes to this restaurant.
If you don't want to walk, there is a bus service from Kintetsu Nara and JR Nara.
Of course, you can also drive.
This is a very popular place, so it is normal to have to wait for the bus.
The popular lunch at Walnut Tree will end soon!
Reservations cannot be made for seats. But you can make a reservation for lunch.
If you are planning to go, it would be better to make a reservation.
When we went there on Saturday before 1:00 p.m., we had to wait for 30 minutes.
There are also some shops on the premises selling goods and clothes, so you can look around and have a good time.
You can wait in the waiting room.
I bought a loaf of bread at the nearby Amber. I bought some bread at nearby Amber.
My name was called in about 30 minutes.
Then the waiter told me that lunch was about to end...
Dangerous! You still need a reservation!
Spring Lunch at Walnut Tree 1,470 yen
This weekly lunch changes every week and is popular because it is made with ingredients used in the four seasons.
Coffee or apple juice is also included.
I chose the apple juice!
Look at the chopsticks! Thank you for the food!
I'm so excited just by looking at these chopsticks!
Now, now, the rice is here!
First, let's start with one plate.
This week's dishes were takikomi gohan with burdock root, boiled enoki mushrooms and pea shoots, lotus root and konnyaku cooked in sweet and spicy sauce, fresh cabbage salad, and cherry blossom jelly.
It's a lot of food - you'd think that's all there is to it!
But then came nyumen and kushikatsu (skewers)!
What? So much? On the contrary, isn't this price cheap for such a full meal?
The dishes are a little light in flavor, making the best use of each ingredient.
But it is gentle and each texture is enjoyable!
The apple juice at the end was delicious, just like an apple!
I was also curious about the homemade cake.
But I was already full, so I gave up!
I bought a sweet potato pound cake and soybean flour cookies as souvenirs!
The sweet potato cake was also very gentle and made the best use of the ingredients!
The soybean flour cookies are so soft and tender that you can't help but feel like you've been eating soybean flour!
I'm so glad I came!
The food was really good too!
I am very satisfied!
Next time I will visit in the summer!