A note on the words: pate de campagne is a coarse country pork terrine, usually served cold as a starter; cornichons are the small sour gherkins that go with it. Midtown here means Tokyo Midtown, the complex by Roppongi station. Prices are as of this writing (August 2026).
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I want to eat something good today too. This is Hangover Meshi. This time, Roppongi again. Business done, we decided to go and drink, and walking towards Roppongi station the terrace seats at orange on the ground floor of Midtown looked free. We asked, and they were. Getting in here on a Roppongi evening without a booking counts as luck, so we took it. Lately it has been cool, or rather a little cold, but the breeze makes the terrace seats the nicer place to be. In fact I had never been to this place before.
There are a lot of stylish dishes, so it is hard to choose. Quite a few French-looking ones as well. For now we decided to drink and pick out what we wanted to eat as we went.
The first beer was Punk IPA.
Pâté de campagne.
It is an interesting dish in that how coarse it is varies a good deal from shop to shop, but broadly it is pork chopped coarsely into a mince, worked together with aromatic vegetables, herbs and spices, packed into a mold and baked in the oven. It usually arrives chilled as a starter. It is full of the savor of the meat and gently seasoned. Add punch with the olive salt served alongside and acidity with the cornichons and it is good. Perhaps I should have had champagne.
You always want something to pick at sitting on the table, so we added the black truffle fries.
Potato and black truffle are good, are they not. With wine it is a certainty.
Marinated red cabbage. A beautiful purple.
The acidity of the vinegar and a faint sweetness, together with the scent of the mustard, and it is good.
The potato, carrot and broccoli have been boiled separately. Nicely done.
The meltingly soft beef is full of savor and very good. Is the red wine they use on the sweet side? There is a little sweetness to it, which is good. A rich red wine sauce with a proper thickness to it. The combination of faint acidity and beef that falls apart, packed with savor, is superb. Well, this makes the drinks go down.
So, plenty drunk and thoroughly satisfied. The atmosphere is very stylish and I think anyone you brought would be pleased. Indoors the decor is smart, and outside, Roppongi being busy with people, drinking while watching the passers-by has a good feel to it too. Being near Roppongi station means you can get to the trains at once if you want to go home, which is genuinely helpful — but if you are in Roppongi anyway, you have to go on drinking a little longer. So on we went. If orange has a seat free, I recommend it.
orange (Dining bar / Roppongi Station, Nogizaka Station, Roppongi-itchome Station)
Tabelog dinner rating ★★★☆☆ 3.5
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
