CALIFORNIA BABY （カリフォルニア・ベイビー）| Cafe Restaurant | Hakodate

Hakodate is a port town with exotic atmosphere, and has a lot of fashionable cafes and restaurants. "CALIFORNIA BABY （カリフォルニア・ベイビー）" is one of my favorites.

This is located near Kanamori Red Brick Warehouse Area (金森倉庫エリア）.

I visited the cafe restaurant after shopping in this area as usual!

"Cisco Rice （シスコライス）" is the most popular dish here!
Anyway, let's enter it!

This is a very popular cafe restaurant, and packed with their customers especially during the lunch hours. I love this cozy atmosphere!

Let me see.......... What should I order???

Voila!

This is "Cisco Rice", the most popular dish in this cafe restaurant; fried rice topped with two sausages and meat sauce. 

How HUGE the sausages are!! Yummy x 2!!

This sour and sweet meat sauce really suits this bouillon-flavored fried rice!

I really recommend to eat fried rice, meat sauce, and sausage altogether like this↓

Hakodate is famous for fresh seafood, but if you want to try something different, why don't you come to this cafe restaurant?

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Zensho （夕日ヶ丘レストラン善生）| Farm Restaurant | Iwamizawa

Would you like to eat delicious rice? If so, I recommend "Zensho （夕日ヶ丘レストラン善生）", a farm restaurant run by rice farmers in Iwamizawa, 40 minutes away from Sapporo.

It is always crowded with local people, and we have to wait for a while. But it is worth a wait! They are using carefully selected ingredients, some of them we can buy in this restaurant↓

I really recommend their rice especially! There is big difference between one sold at supermarkets and theirs!!!

The restaurant is like this!

From the windows, we can enjoy rural landscapes. They have still some snow, but it will be covered with vivid green grasses and plants in just one month!
One of the recommendable points here is a beautiful sunset from this hill! We have to come back here for dinner!!!!

During the lunch hours, they serve some lunch sets such as a hamburg set, a pasta set, a today's meat set, and a today's fish set. Surprisingly we can eat their delicious rice as much as possible!!!

It is a pity that their fresh vegetable and fruit juice was already sold out when we came here............... It is only 100 yen, and tastes very thick!!

Look at the drink menu!

We can order local alcohols such as Housui wine in Iwamizawa, Yamazaki wine in Mikasa, and production limited sake made by Kobayashi Sake Brewery. Sounds very attractive, doesn't it???
(If you'd like to know the sake brewery, please refer to my other post! We went to the Sake Brewery Festival the other day→click ☆)

I really recommend this salad, which comes with every lunch set! Tastes very thick, and I love it!

This is a main for today's meat lunch set. Look at a lot of kinds of vegetables on the thick pork stake! Yummy x 2!!!

Side dishes are like this↓ We can fully enjoy delicious vegetables in this restaurant!!

This is a hamburg lunch set named a sunset lunch set!

It looks like a sunset; demi-glace sauce and cheese!!!

Hot! Hot! Hot! And yummy x 2!!!

The set has the same side dishes as today's meat lunch set.

This is milk jelly, a dessert for a sunset lunch set!

Last but not least, I'll show you their rice!! I strongly believe that this is a "real" main for their lunch sets!!

It is so delicious that I had a refill of rice!!! It is free of charge!!! Perfect, isn't it?
They blend two kinds of brand rice: Yumepirica (70%) and Nanatuboshi (30%). I've never eaten such delicious rice!!! I have to come back here to eat this super-tasty rice!!

After eating delicious rice, we ordered additional dessert!
A drink can be selected among several kinds, and I chose ginger ale↓

We had a wonderful time here!

Of course, I bought their delicious rice in this restaurant! When it's gone, I'll be back again! I became a big fan of their rice!

Black bean and soy bean snacks look great, and I bought one of them!

On the way back home, we enjoyed talking about today's lunch!! We really recommend this restraurant, serving delicious rice and vegetables!!

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AGT2 cafe Hibino （あじと2 カフェ日びの）| Rice Cafe | Sapporo

Today I'll show you one of my favorite cafes, "AGT2 cafe Hibino （あじと2 カフェ日びの）", located near Toyohira River, Sapporo.

This is a rice cafe run by a rice store, featuring delicious rice and healthy ingredients. Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?? Let's enter it!

There is a cute rice shop on the 1st floor, but it is NOT a normal shop.

Look at the carefully-selected rice↓ Each delicious rice bag has the producer's name and picture.

Fashionable chopsticks are sold here, too! Actually I bought two pairs of them!

Well, well, well, let's go upstairs!

I love this atmosphere!!! Very cozy cafe, isn't it?

Ornaments in this space are very fashionable!!!

Long counter seats are perfect for single dinners!

Are you interested in their healthy lunch menu?
Personally I recommend their grilled risotto. As it contains a lot of beans, we can take in sufficient vitamin B1, B2, dietary fibers, iron, and calcium from the dish.

How about today's specials? They use several types of fish containing DHA, a healty fish oil.

Desserts are very cute and appetizing! Surprisingly, they use rice or grains for the desserts, too! Wow!

Everything here is my favorite. For example, this chopstick case and hand towel holder are very cute!

Voila!
This is today's special. We can have free refills on rice and miso soup. I love this wonderful system! Of course, I enjoyed two kinds of brown rice today! Hahaha!

This is "fermented brown rice".
As selected brown rice is fermented, it is easily digested. The rice is cooked with azuki beans and salt. Sounds very healthy, doesn't it?

This is "DX Asunaro brown rice".
Small brown rice is mixed with the original stock of brown rice. The blended rice is cooked with kelp seaweed and salt, and we can enjoyed the different texture at the same time. Yummy x 2!!

The side dishes are mushrooms↓ and

salad↓

This is the main dish♪
Saury and vegetables are grilled with cheese! Very healthy and delicious!!!

I like this broccoli named "Romanesco". See?! This cafe is very recommendable!

I chose this home-made ginger ale. It tastes very ginger and not too sweet! Hahaha!

My choice for dessert is this↓
Do you have any idea what the brown and purple dots on the milk pudding?

They are 15 kinds of grains! 

As the dessert is not too sweet, it can be loved by everybody!

Time runs very slowly here! 

They are also eco-friendly. No extra paper is prepared here. Look at this↓ They prepare small towels in the bathroom.

I really love this cafe!

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