Friday, January 9, 2009

Hearth cafe

Location: Sunabe seawall, at the northern end of the road right by Junkyard, park on the seawall.
Hours: everyday 0630-2200, lunch is 1130-1630
This cafe has an outdoor patio that fronts the seawall - although you can't see the water, you can hear it. We stopped by for a lunch set (1000Y). This includes mini-cup of soup, main, drink, and dessert. The soup was proprietary chicken broth with tiny pieces of onion. We had a bacon-lettuce-tomato-cucumber-cream cheese sandwich and an open faced salad sandwich. The former had a couple issues - the bread was not toasted, there was too much cream cheese, and the tomato was grainy. The latter also left something to be desired - the dressing was distractingly mayonnaisey and despite chopped nuts and a few pieces of cured duck and proscuttio, it just didn't feel like a full meal. The dessert was a dry and unappealing piece of chocolate cake. The best part of the meal was the drink selection - options included a small glass of Orion, wine or sangria, or coffee/tea/juices.
We really wanted to like the food here, because it was quite pleasant to sit outside by the seawall and have a beer. But it just wasn't that good.