March 6 was our second anniversary. We spent the afternoon in Nishinomiya, where we did a little shopping for presents for friends, and we bought some new plates and bowls for ourselves. We decided a while ago that it would be fun to slowly purchase Japanese ceramics while we are here, so we have a nice little collection to bring home with us.
For dinner, we went to a new restaurant, Les Legumes, the website of which I discovered on accident several months ago. The restaurant was too new to have a rating on the popular Japanese restaurant site we have been using, but their website had great pictures and the food sounded good. Les Legumes is French for 'the vegetables,' and the cuisine was Japanese-inspired French (or French-inspired Japanese?) with a heavy focus on organic vegetables. All their veggies come from one farm in Tamba, where the wild boar festival was.
Dinner consisted of a course of vegetarian hors d'oeuvres (including Japanese pickles), boiled vegetables, potato soup, a lamb chop and veggies for the main course, and ginger cake and crème brûlée with coffee for dessert. Everything was at least very good, but the hors d'oeuvres, main course, and coffee were fantastic! After dinner, we walked to Beer Cafe Barley, which is one of the only places in the prefecture serving craft beer. Expensive it is (especially in Japan), but worth it on a special occasion.
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