December 4, 2010

Cafe California in Sheraton Miyako Hotel - Macrobiotics

Cafe California in 1F, Sheraton Miyako Hotel in Shirokane offers authentic macrobiotic dishes on all occasions. This restaurant's name is "Cafe", but actually it's not a cafe, it's just a casual restaurant. If you are strict macrobian and try to find the restaurant for a dinner, this is the best.  Also you can stay at this hotel with macrobiotic breakfast, lunch and dinner.



This restaurant has a terrace in the backyard, which is wide open space. It just more like the  casual hotel restaurants in LA as named "Cafe California".


The first appetizer is seitan with tomato salad. For those who do not know, seitan is the mock meat made from soy beans. Authentic macrobiotic for treatment purposes is strictly prohibited from eating meat of the animals.

Carrot and Garbanzo soup topped with coriander is quite spicy. Taste was something like Indian foods.  I shouldn't have chosen it.....


 
Main course is the pumpkin galette which is also a little bit spicy. Actually I am not a big spicy foods fun. 


The basic of the macrobiotic is the brown rice. Whenever I eat rice, I choose brown rice.


Yummy desert is apple comport with coconuts sauce. You can see the seeds of apple on the above picture. This is based on the concept that we try to eat entire vegetables and fruits as much as possible, even the skin and seeds as an ecological approach.


Rosehip and hibiscus herbal tea which is good for health and skin, that has slightly sour, but I love it.


A dine at a table in the terrace is fantastic in the spring and the fall. The normal menu is also available, so you can dine out at this restaurant together with non-macrobians. They will be able to provide you a variety of selections. 


*Free shuttle bus between hotel and JR Meguro station available every 15 minutes 
My evaluation : ★★★☆☆

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