Happy Bday Me!!
Lol, a bit of a shock logging in to the blog to find out it was down. But have no fear, its up and running again!
Anyway was my birthday on the 7th of March. Celebrated by going out for some nice lunch with the Missus. Here is a quick write up.
So the venue for lunch was the Monnalisa, a small French restaurant in Ebisu that had 1 Michelin star.
My first qualm was with how small it was. The table was ridiculously small and our table was way too close to other people. It was to the extent that you heard everything that they said. While I understand that this is Japan and there is little space, you dont really wanna be worrying about knocking your drink over cause there is no space on the table when you are paying top dollar.
So the first thing that came was the appetizer. It was some sort of jellied meat. I cant remember what it was. It was ok. The plate was cool, those are actually real petals in between.
Grilled of leek and crab terrine is what they called it. It was good. It was a cold dish with crab and leek on top of some sort of rice and tomato sauce. This gets the thumbs up.
Meuniere of codfish and shellfish soup, fisher style. This was the dish of the day. It was a creamy sauce with white fish, mushrooms and broccoli. The creamy sauce was really good and the fish was soft and juicy.
Pate of“Basque”pork in parsley and winter vegetables, truffle sauce. This was the main course. It was ok.. But to be honest it tasted a bit too much like a hamburger to me… Still, it tasted ok for what it was.
Ok so the missus arranged for them to bring me over a cake and music box that played happy birthday. I blew out the candle and made a wish 
It was pretty cool, I was salivating when I saw the cake. But in the end was kind of a disappointment. They actually take a picture of you and print it out for you which was nice!
This was called strawberry soup for some reason. It was a strawberry with yogurt dessert. Tasted nice.
Dessert was really nice. However, you see that cake with the green top? That is all you get from the birthday cake… Infact it was 3 other peoples birthdays and they all got a cake with a candle they blew out. Those motherfuckers recycled the same cake for 4 people…. Pretty ridiculous to tell the truth…
After that we got some tea and a little snack and that was it.
The waiter who served us was a kinda pissing me off. When other people came in he would take them to their seat and say thank you for coming in the rain and basically kiss their ass, but didn’t extend the same courtesy for us…
So all in all it was decent. I have had better. I definitely won’t be going there again 
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March 11th, 2010 at 3:06 am
Screw the waiter and the cake! You had your lovely lady there and that’s most important
Happy birthday, my man! Wish you all the best. I’m heading for 30 end of month and I wonder where my lady will take me in Taipei
March 11th, 2010 at 3:24 am
Happy belated Birthday!!
The dishes look nice, but I wonder about the food; especially since you mentioned they recycled the birthday cake. BLEH
March 11th, 2010 at 7:07 am
Happy Birthday!
I was kinda giving the o_O to some of those dishes, but when you said they shared the cake, UMMM NO! I would not be going back.
I hope over all, that you had a wonderful birthday.
March 11th, 2010 at 7:13 am
@Nino
Thanks life begins at 30 man :P. I find getting people to do stuff or take you somewhere is better than actual presents.
@Lyndon
Thanks. Yah the food was nice, but for a michelin restaurant it wasnt that great. I think I might find a review site and write about them.
@TravelDiva
Thanks. Yah birthday overall was nice. The cake thing was beyond shocking to me. Its the first place I have ever been to where they brought out a cake and dont actually let you eat it.
March 11th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Happy belated birthday!
Weird on the cake issue, but then I guess you had a good time and that’s all that matters.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Happy Birthday bro!!
I hope this year is sooooooo good it makes last year look like hell on Earth.
March 12th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Wow, Happy belated Birthday, long time no visit. That looks fantastic and your partner is beautiful! And the cake, yeah that is strange alright. Oh I hate going anywhere that is too packed but then I have never visited Japan yet so maybe its always like that. Yeah you should do a review of the restaurant.
April 9th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Oh wow, how could I miss this one ^_^; Happy belated birthday to you good sir!
April 26th, 2010 at 4:31 am
Extremely helpful information. Thank you!
May 3rd, 2010 at 8:49 pm
I see times have not changed that much since I was there 1953-1956. I must say, though, the eating establishments have come up several notches. Most things we got was served in a bowl with chopsticks. We slurped the soup, belched a lot because we were told the belching patron was a happy patron. See me in those days at http://sendai-shi.blogspot.com/
I hope the rest of your day was a delight.
May 19th, 2010 at 10:00 am
あやの,New Blg;)
June 5th, 2010 at 4:02 am
Happy late birthday!
That looks like a good time. You have a beautiful wife!