Today I would like to introduce one of my favorite cafes in Tokyo, Frames Cafe located in Nakameguro station which I came with my sister. I have heard about many delicious and fine restaurants and cafes in Nakameguro so I was very excited coming here.
The location is very good as it only takes three minutes from the station of Nakameguro.
You will notice this cafe right away because the building is nicely designed and decorated. It is one block away from the Yamate street so it is surrounded by a nice and quiet neighborhood. The store offers some terrace seats so if it is not such a cold day, people can enjoy their meals and drinks outside.
When I entered the restaurant, the waiters and waitresses were dressed up very casual. The hairstyle, hair color, piercings, shoes, and clothes seemed to be free but all of them had aprons on. When we entered the restaurant, they asked if we wanted a smoking or non-smoking seat so we chose the non-smoking seat and they directed us right away to our seats. At first I was a little worried about the non-smoking seats because the non-smoking and the smoking seats weren't separated by any walls or other things. However, somehow, even if we sat at the non-smoking area, we could barely smell the smoke so we were able to enjoy our time.
The atmosphere inside was very stylish. It had book shelves, TVs and chandeliers, which made it even more stylish. It was a place where people can enjoy their meal time leisurely with soft and calm music.
Speaking of meals and drinks, I came here during lunch time so they only had drink, lunch and dessert menus. For the lunch menu, there were 6 options and everything came with a drink bar( free refills).
There were several beverages that customers can refill such as hot coffee and tea, iced coffee and tea, orange juice, apple juice, and iced latte.
The lunch options were:
1. Lunch Plate: Pork grilled steak with onion sauce. (comes with soup, salad, and rice or bread)
2. Todays Pasta: A. Bacon and eggplant tomato spaghetti
B. Shirasu and fresh tomato peperoncino (comes with soup, salad, and bread)
3. Todays Rice Bowl: Broiling Salmon and Avocados with Wasabi Sauce(comes with soup and salad)
4. Soup and Salad: Tuna with boiled egg and black olives with red vinegar dressing salad. Chicken soup. (comes with focaccia)
5. Vegetable and beef curry (comes with soup and salad)
6. Hamburg steak. (comes with soup, salad, and bread)
**The lunch menu changes every week. The dinner menu stay constant at all time.**
There were many drinks on the menu since it is a cafe. The price range is from 430yen to 1000yen. They provide many types of beverages like alcohols, espressos, teas, and sodas.
The price was cheap compared to other cafes in Nakameguro for the amount of the drink for one serving. The price of the food was neutral as most of them was under 1000yen.
What I ordered was the pepproncino spaghetti, a garlic based spaghetti. It was 980yen that came with a salad, bread, soup, and free refill drinks.
After ordering, the food came in about 15 minutes. Since it was a weekday lunch time, there were many customers so I was expecting it would take longer but was glad that it came earlier.
The spaghetti was delicious, however, I would not recommend it for people who does not like fishy tastes. Thus, since it was a garlic based spaghetti, I though it would taste more like garlic but the Tobiko(fish egg) and Shirasu(small fish) made the spaghetti base taste more like fish than garlic which was a little upsetting. However, the overall taste and the amount was good for this price.
The surprising thing about the menu was that during lunch time, if students show their student ID cards, they can receive a 50yen discount at the cashier. Therefore, this meal was only 930yen!
Overall, this restaurant is good in value and amount. Very tasty and would come here again for dinner time next time!
My Evaluation
Service staff
-dress code 4/5
-politeness 5/5
-service quality 5/5
Menus
-Serving size 4/5
- Price range to the food quality 4/5
Restaurant
-Cleanness of the restaurant 4/5
-seating comfort 3/5
-music choice 4/5
- clean silver and plates 5/5
Building
- noticeable 5/5
-signs visible 5/5
-attractiveness 5/5
Total: 52/60
I hope this article can help!
Store address.
〒150-0042 東京都目黒区上目黒１−１８−6 ＮＭビル1F
03-5724-5097
My video review
Eri,
ReplyDeleteYour review is so professional that I can easily imagine it appearing in a Tokyo weekly magazine. In fact, I think you should try submitting it to one of them for publication. They probably would not pay you anything, but your name would be in print and you could count it as one of your publications.
The meal that you had does seem like an excellent value. Hard to believe that it was so inexpensive at a cafe in such an area. It is actually much easier finding tasty and reasonably priced meals in Tokyo than it is in the San Francisco Bay area, where I'm from, even though the prices of most things are higher here. I would have ordered the same dish as you did, but I would have asked them to leave out the Tobiko and Shirasu. Perhaps you would have enjoyed the dish more if you had made the same request.
Cheers,
Joseph D.