Location:

Kitanakagusuku village, on the road lined with love hotels. From the 330, turn east onto the 85 (also called the 22), go through Awase golf course, keep straight until the road forks (Cafe JiJi is along this stretch). Turn left at the fork (in order to follow the purple road on the phone book maps), and go around the first curve. Midway through the second curve there is a Family Mart; take the left hand fork up the hill (the other road goes down the hill to Awase). Make the first major right hand turn, where there are a bunch of signs for cafes. You then pass Minto house, and the BOQ gallery, and take that immediate left into the parking lot for Gueuleton. Walk up the

hill on the concrete path to the door.
Hours: 12-2:30 lunch, dinner 6p- closed Sunday
This is a lovely restaurant with a bistro feel and an overgrown French-style garden. They do a set menu at lunch for 1580Y. Dinner is approx 3100Y. This place was written up in Okinawahai as a nice date spot, which it is, although the midday crowd was mostly ladies who lunch. The starter is a beautiful salad, comprised of some greens, a piece of raw mackerel, a small whole fish, and some other vegetables which we could not identify, each morsel quite lovely. Next was a vermicelli pasta with tomato sauce, simple but well prepared, with large pieces of roasted garlic and whole basil leaves. The main was the star of the show - a beautiful piece of whitefish, topped in sauteed native

squash, sitting in a pond of delightful tomato-herb-?saffron fish broth. The mini-baguette provided served well in sopping up the scraps. Finally, dessert was a trio: a piece of watermelon (watermelon cost 1200Y at the supermarket!), a scoop of ice cream on a pound cake flavoured with candied orange peel, and a light green pudding, perhaps with a hint of pistachio. Coffee was an espresso shot served with a pitcher of fake milk and granulated sugar. This was a sophisticated meal in friendly surroundings, for a very reasonable price. Highly

recommended.

