We went there last Thursday. It is a popular bistro with one star in the Michelin Guide Tokyo.
LAUBURU ローブリュー | バスク地方の豚肉料理 南青山フレンチ http://www.lauburu.jp/
I have actually been to this restaurant once before 10 years ago. A good friend of mine at work at the time told me about this restaurant, and I remember it being very delicious. I haven’t been back since then.
At the time, I remember thinking, « Why Basque when I requested French food? I was really immature (laughs).
Since that first visit, I haven’t been blessed with the opportunity to revisit, and in the end I haven’t been able to visit once since 10 years ago, but the other day on Thursday, I called the restaurant on the day of my visit, and they replied that it would be fine, so I visited for the second time in 10 years.
The quality of the food was as good as it gets.
Basque, of course, but mainly the local cuisine of the southwest of France. Because it is in the southwest, there are many rich dishes. But sometimes there are dishes from different regions (for example, Alsace, which is completely different from the southwest).
The first thing we had was this soup called Garbure. It is one of the local dishes in the Midi-Pyrenees and the Basque Country.
It was so delicious.
Next was a green bean and pine nut shallot salad.
For the main course, we had the pork grillé and the promised duck confit.
Confit, a synonym for French cuisine, is actually a local dish from the Midi-Pyrenees region.
To be honest, I thought I wouldn’t try the confit, but it looked so good at the table next to me that I couldn’t resist….
(By the way, there were two French and two Japanese people, and all four of us had one duck confit each!
For the closing dessert, we chose the chocolate pudding (Petit pot au chocolat).
It’s not a mousse. Because when I think of one of the classic French chocolate-based desserts, I think of mousse.
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