A note on the words: kinmedai is the splendid alfonsino, a deep-water fish with bright red skin and soft, fatty white flesh. Bouillabaisse is the fish stew of Provence, so “bouillabaisse style” means the sauce around the fish is built the way that stew is. Pate is meat ground to a paste and set firm, to be spread on bread; chicken ham is chicken breast cured and cooked gently so that it slices like ham. Clam chowder is the milky American soup of clams, potato and onion.
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CEDAR THE CHOP HOUSE & BAR on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
Hey, this is Hangover Meshi. I’ve gone and come back! CEDAR THE CHOP HOUSE & BAR, the American restaurant inside the hotel REMM in Roppongi. Easy to reach, plenty of room, and the salad is a buffet. It could hardly be easier to use.
The menu changes month by month: one Recommend, one Fish, and four Meat options from A to D. I thought a month had gone by since the last time, but it hadn’t, lol. Last time I chose Meat D, the Grilled Sirloin Roast of Australian Free-Range Beef, but this time I went for the Fish! The Fish dish is grilled kinmedai, clam bouillabaisse style.
Right, this time too we begin with the appetizer plate.
Pate, eggplant, chicken ham, and a sandwich toasted crisp and fragrant. This appetizer-plate system is another thing I like here.
And then the salad!
I piled on plenty again this time ^^ This is happiness!
And this time I had the soup as well — clam chowder!
That clam chowder was seriously good!
And then the Fish arrived: grilled kinmedai, clam bouillabaisse style.
It looks great, and the plating is nice too.
The bouillabaisse-ish sauce goes well with the kinmedai, which has been grilled hard enough to char the outside while staying fluffy in the middle.
Mmm, this is good. The fatty fish and the vegetables match each other just right. With the salad as well, it turned into a very healthy lunch! Yeah, this place really is good.
By the way, this is the chilled roast pork. That looked good too.
So I ended up coming twice before the month had even turned over, but since there are so many kinds of dish on the menu to begin with, I enjoyed it perfectly well, lol. You can take the health-conscious route with salad and fish, or you can go hard with meat and salad, so if you’re having lunch in Roppongi I’d recommend this place quite highly! You will come away satisfied, no question.
CEDAR THE CHOP HOUSE & BAR (Dining Bar / Roppongi Station, Nogizaka Station, Roppongi-itchome Station)
Tabelog lunch rating ★★★☆☆ 3.5
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
