Friday, January 9, 2009

Petit-Voyage cafe

Location: Ginowan, on the 81, west of the House of 66 cents, on the south side of the street. Parking is right in front of the shop, or just up the hill a bit there is a side street in front of a few shops where you can park
Hours: 12-2200 closed Mondays and randomly other times
http://www.okinawahai.com/my_weblog/2008/12/petit-voyage.html
This is a tiny, attractive cafe, with whitewashed walls, photos of Paris, and shelves full of photography books and old cameras. Lunch options are soup set, sandwich set, pasta set, and vegetable curry set (around 900Y). These can be combined with beverage (approx 200Y) or beverage + dessert (400Y). We got the sandwich set, the veg curry, and also accidentally ordered the pasta as well. The sandwich set was delicious fresh bread with two small portions of spreads, a salad, and a cup of yummy soup for bread-dipping. The veg curry is roasted vegetables and a slightly spicy brown sauce with rice. This needed more salt, but was tasty. The pasta was tomato sauce with Camembert chunks - a creative idea, and better than some oversweetened tomato sauces one finds in Okinawa, but not as appealing as the other two dishes. The coffee was OK, not great, but did come with a mini-pitcher of milk. We skipped dessert. Overall, a very pleasant cafe lunch experience, and a place one could easily linger looking at their books.