The lounge at Hotel New Otani in Akasaka is famous for its Japanese garden. There aren’t many places where you can eat while looking out over a Japanese garden right in the middle of Tokyo.
Roughly this kind of atmosphere
The lunch buffet is around 3,000 yen, and taste aside, a view like this is worth paying for. Which is why the place is absolutely packed.
The New Otani seen from the garden
The garden
The garden
Interior decoration
It’s a really big hotel, and it’s always full of people. It feels a bit like a maze too, so you have to be careful not to get lost.
Bread from SATSUKI
The New Otani has two dessert and bakery specialists, Pierre Herme and SATSUKI. This time I tried SATSUKI, and it was seriously impressive. The beef curry bread was about 700 yen, and while the bread itself was delicious, the filling was no joke: chunks of meat in every bite. No wonder it costs that much. The curry bread I had a while back at Trial felt almost exactly like this one. Maybe SATSUKI is the original.
Cakes
Very classic in style. I suppose they’ve kept the old-fashioned style exactly as it was.
Bread
Bread
I ought to earn a lot of money and become a regular at a bakery like this, but I’m not quite there yet. I’m telling myself to work a little harder for it.
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