All you can eat rolls?

[mbarker]

We went to lunch with a friend to a new restaurant in a nearby mall. The name is Baqet. I had sesame roast chicken, coated in black sesame. The friend had chicken in tomato sauce and basil, Florentine style, according to the menu. Mitsuko had some kind of gratin.

But the main dishes, while quite good, really aren't the point of this restaurant. Instead, the real calling card is in a double row of small trays nearby, maybe a dozen or so altogether, filled with various fresh rolls. Fresh baked, eat all you want. And we each had a couple of plates of rolls. Small croissants, bran rolls, 3 seed rolls, onion, garlic, tumeric (I still don't really know what that was, but the yellowish color was intriguing). And so on. Warm rolls, with plenty of butter.

Lunches were about 1,000 to 1,200 yen, which is reasonable for this kind of restaurant.

And all-you-can-eat warm rolls really hit the spot. Nice change of pace from the rice that is the usual staple.

Comments

[dialyn.livejournal.com]

All you can eat warm rolls...I would never be able to leave that restaurant! They sound delicious.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

That's really was the problem. Mitsuko told me I ate too many -- I think I tried all of them, and then went back for seconds (and thirds) on the ones that I really enjoyed.

Oddly, the garlic rolls were too mildly garlic for me -- I enjoy garlic, and these were very mild.

I did wonder if they would roll us out after a while, but at least while we sat there they didn't prod us. I know some of the "all you can eat" places here have time limits -- all the barbecue you can eat in an hour-and-a-half -- but this place didn't seem to.