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Colline Arrondie

PHONE ADDRESS 115 Yamatecho, Chuo-ku, Yokohama WEBSITE French

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Editorial Review

Colline Arrondie

Published on January 10th, 2004

Arriving for lunch on a breezy Monday, we were given a perch in front of one of the many large windows that overlook the restaurant's terrace and gardens beyond. The whole dining room, which seats around 75, has a sunny disposition, thanks to lots of natural light and bright pastel walls. Somewhat predictably, our fellow diners consisted mostly of dressed-up obasan treating themselves to an afternoon out, while outside passed an array of younger couples taking in the sights.

We decided to splurge and get the special course (¥2,800 or ¥3,800, depending on the main dish), and we ordered a seasonal course (¥2,000) and the day's lunch (¥1,500). All of the sets came with salad, dessert and drinks in portions that satisfied our gaijin-size appetites. Our meal got off to an excellent start with hors d'oeuvres and soups. First up in the special course was a plate of cold, lightly seasoned seafood and vegetables: sliced raw scallops, baby shrimp, ika, mushrooms and a terrine of salmon and crabmeat. All tasted wonderfully fresh, as did the seasonal course's intensely flavored parsley and clam soup and the daily lunch's creamy carrot soup. The salads that followed were more ordinary, but with radicchio, leaf lettuce, shrimp and chopped egg, they were a satisfying beginning to the heartier fare to follow. The special course's pièce de résistance was its main dish, Japanese-style beef with seasonal vegetables. The filet, accompanied by a peppery brown sauce and peas, carrots, greens and bamboo, sat on a pillow of rich au gratin potatoes. Fatty but not chewy, and cooked medium rare, the beef had a buttery texture and a heady flavor that reaffirmed our recently shaken commitment to meat-eating. Not to be outdone, the daily lunch's scallop and shrimp risotto was light and the seafood tender, and it came with a wonderfully tart orange cream sauce. The seasonal course, meanwhile, proved that the kitchen does well with less elaborate fare: a good-sized filet of tai was flaky, moist and nicely seasoned with an understated basil sauce. Accompanied by a baked cherry tomato and a small portion of eggplant parmigiano, the seasonal lunch (available through April) was a winner. After finishing up our meal with decent coffee and a dessert platter that included fresh fruits, strawberry mousse and green tea ice cream, we walked outside to the restaurant's terrace and made a mental note to stop by for cake and coffee in nicer weather. We'd be hard pressed to come up with a better way to impress out-of-town guests-or locals who wish to take advantage of the area's newfound accessibility.

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