Dragonfly cafe, Shinsaibashi, Osaka
Non-smoking cafe. In Osaka. Osaka, Japan. Non-smoking. No, really, no smoking. Not even a little bit. Not even lights. Or milds.
Basil pasta - expected bog standard genovese, but the basil is in the pasta, not the sauce. Bright green. They should give this to kids who don't eat pasta. What kid doesn't eat pasta? They should grind up vegetables that kids don't eat and put them into pasta. Especially the colourful ones.
Since the basil was in the pasta, they couldn't very well use basil as a garnish as well, so instead they used.... Bacon. Bacon, the universal condiment, as the Chinese have known for 5000 years. Why didn't they bring that piece of wisdom back from the east when they were busy carving it up? What the hell were you at, Marco Polo? Where was your head, Francis Xavier?
Run by a nice Swiss chap who gives French lessons if you ask, and may also be a DJ (rumour not confirmed.) DJ events on weekends, apparently, and occasional exhibitions. Current exhibition was of not-especially-interesting photos of Kyoto and Nagasaki. Not bad, just not interesting. The sort of photos they use as ads in train stations. Unfortunately deserted on Thursday night. Deserves more people, since:
1> non-smoking
2> understands the place of Bacon on top of every meal
Bacon on a bed of green pasta, one beer, one coffee, 1090 yen. (Any drink is yours for 100 yen with a meal)
Coffee came with actual milk instead of that UHT anti-freeze you usually get.
Non-smoking cafe. In Osaka. Osaka, Japan. Non-smoking. No, really, no smoking. Not even a little bit. Not even lights. Or milds.
Basil pasta - expected bog standard genovese, but the basil is in the pasta, not the sauce. Bright green. They should give this to kids who don't eat pasta. What kid doesn't eat pasta? They should grind up vegetables that kids don't eat and put them into pasta. Especially the colourful ones.
Since the basil was in the pasta, they couldn't very well use basil as a garnish as well, so instead they used.... Bacon. Bacon, the universal condiment, as the Chinese have known for 5000 years. Why didn't they bring that piece of wisdom back from the east when they were busy carving it up? What the hell were you at, Marco Polo? Where was your head, Francis Xavier?
Run by a nice Swiss chap who gives French lessons if you ask, and may also be a DJ (rumour not confirmed.) DJ events on weekends, apparently, and occasional exhibitions. Current exhibition was of not-especially-interesting photos of Kyoto and Nagasaki. Not bad, just not interesting. The sort of photos they use as ads in train stations. Unfortunately deserted on Thursday night. Deserves more people, since:
1> non-smoking
2> understands the place of Bacon on top of every meal
Bacon on a bed of green pasta, one beer, one coffee, 1090 yen. (Any drink is yours for 100 yen with a meal)
Coffee came with actual milk instead of that UHT anti-freeze you usually get.
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