Cressonniere

平日14：15に訪問。15時から近くの銀行でアポがあり、食べログ検索したら、まだ行ってないコチラの百名店発見。ただ少しコメント見たら、提供に30分位時間が掛かると書いてあったが、14時なら空いてるだろと強行 案の定店内は半分程度、その内7割は食べ終わってる感じ 着いて10秒で『フランス風牛肉のハンバーグ　黒トリュフソース』3000円を注文。銀行の前に精を付けよう なんと13分で着丼、やはり早かった（笑） 大きい壺に入ったかぼちゃスープ、トリュフのいい匂いがするゴツゴツしたハンバーグ、マッシュポテト、サラダ、 パン、プディングにコーヒーカップ。 サラダは意外にボリュームありナイスです。かぼちゃスープ、個人的に余り好みでは無いが、濃厚なカボチャの風味、これもたっぷり入ってる。 本命のハンバーグちゃん。中は少しレアめで赤身の旨さ、食感も粗めで食べ応えアリ、ウマシ ホントはご飯食べたいとこだが、たまにはこんなのもいいだろう、マッシュとパンを御飯代わりにモグモグラッシュ。ご馳走様でした〜^_^

2022.02.16 新宿三丁目駅のB4出口直結のビルの地下1階です。 平日の12:00過ぎに到着すると待ちは2組。 20分ほどで入店。 店内はほぼ女性客でした。 この日の日替わりソテーはフランス風牛挽き肉のソテー（粒マスタードのソース）。 あまり期待していませんでしたが、¥1,200円とは思えない本格的な美味しさで満足です。

トマトの肉詰めランチプレート、砂肝のコンフィ、豚肉のリエットを注文しました。 どれもきちんと仕込みがされた美味しい料理でした。 ランチプレートはそれぞれ値段が異なりますが、トマトの肉詰め、マッシュポテト、カボチャのポタージュ、パン、サラダ、パンプディング、コーヒーが付いて1600円はかなりのお得感がありました。 他のお店で料理が簡易的でこの内容はありそうですが、こちらは料理の質が高いと思います。 自分達は14時頃入店でピークが終わってた感じでしたが、お二人で営業していたのでピーク時は大変そうだなーと想像してしまいました。 不自然にニコニコハキハキしてる接客より、必要な事を淡々とこなしてる感じも雰囲気と合っていて良いと思いました。

ランチにお伺いしました。ビストロ百名店とのことで混みそうなので開店11時前に行きましたが前には6名ほど待たれていました。落ち着いた店内と慣れた感じの接客。まるごとトマトの肉詰め（限定20食？）と白スズキのソテーを注文しましたが、セットのかぼちゃスープはそのままの素材の味がよく出ており、メインも手間をかけた複雑な味わいがして美味しかったです。デザートのパンプディングも美味。コーヒーはその場で注いでもらえますがおかわり自由でした。

Tasty, authentic and affordable. A must go ?

Not easy to find French restaurant in the basement. The decoration is inspired from French restaurants, but its realisation is only half-finished, and lighting is bright enough but poorly designed. The lunch starts at 11:00AM and finishes at 16:00 PM. People start queuing after 11:30. Lunch menues range from 1000 to 2000 yen, and include a salad a soup a desert and a tea or coffee to complement the main dish you choose. You also get a piece of fresh and crispy bread. More extensive menus are available (around 3500 yen) and change with seasons. You can of course order "à la carte" for more freedom. The bread is quite good, the duck confit with raspberry sauce is tasty enough to feel like it's worth the price. Quantities are a little small, and all the dishes come together, that's a drawback. I recommend eating the main first, the soup, then the salad and finally the desert. French music is aired at a quite low volume that do not disturb any conversation and the room stays quite calm even when full.

Beef or chicken? An in flight dining experience in a basement in the heart of Shinjuku, Tokyo! Just went there for lunch having read a review on Yelp. The lunch menu consists of a basic set of choices ranging from ¥1000 to ¥1600, and two, 4 course "gourmet" options that include things like duck confit with mango sauce and lamb en croûte with a red wine sauce. The basic "prix fixe" came with soup, a salad with potato salad on the bottom of the bowl under the lettuce, a 2 x 3 x 1/2 inch slice of what looked like pain de campagne, a sliver of rum baba with no rum flavor, and a cup of what tasted like Folgers coffee. Graciously you're allowed to order 2 choices from the main dish menu for a "combo plate." When I said I wanted the Chef's special gourmet menu I was told it would be about an hour and a half wait. We were the 2nd table to be seated having sat in line for 30 minutes before the restaurant opened but the last to be served. Everything is served airline style on a butler style stainless steel tray. You are brought everything at once so we waited 45 minutes after ordering before we got our "tray." They started at the left side of the room, served up to the single diner next to us, who actually came in 5 minutes after we did, stopped, then proceeded to the opposite end of the dining room, ending with us. I have quite frankly never experienced anything like this in my life in a French restaurant, though tray service is common in Japanese family style restaurants and kaiseki gourmet restaurants. The bizarre thing is that people are not served in the order they come into the restaurant but where you happen to be sitting. So if you have the corner table you are out of luck! Oh yes, when they pour your coffee you put your cup on the attendant's tray just like on an airplane. I kept telling my friend, "I don't get it, I just don't it." When they were 3/4 of the way to our table I suggested I pay for the anemic sherry glass size of wine I ordered and leave. We almost did. I don't see why they have 2 gourmet options if they encourage you in no uncertain terms not to choose them. And then if this is your first (and only time) you don't realize that everything will come at once. When we left, there were people sitting in line outside wrapped along the the wall. They had probably been waiting 45 minutes as well. Horrible food, terrible service, no view, and not exactly cheap considering other French restaurants like Troisgros nearby for the same price. I don't get it...

Restaurant menu has only Japanese and France language, without pictures. Cooking time was too long. I ordered set menu and total time was about 3 hours. Taste was not bad, but I really can't recommend it.