Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Ants Garden Cafe; Experience Japan's Beloved Cafe Breakfast (Closed June 2019)

Nagoya is a rather large city, but doesn't attract as many tourists as Osaka or Kyoto. There are many great things about it that maybe aren't big enough to bring in the tourists, but make it a nice city for the people living here. One of these things is the "morning service". This is the name given to the affordable breakfast you can get from almost any kissaten (Japanese-style coffee shop) or in some more modern cafés. For the price of just one drink, a light meal comes with it.

At Ants Garden Café, kind of a mix of a kissaten and café, the morning includes the standard toast and hard boiled egg. They jazz it up a bit with the addition of a healthy salad, and a choice of regular bread or the bread of the day. Today's bread was sesame.
Morning at Ants; buttered sesame bread, salad and boiled egg

Coffee 380 yen

The thick piece of bread was moist yet toasted nicely and came slathered with plenty of butter, melting and seeping into the pores of the warm bread...yum. The egg and salad were pretty standard, and the coffee was obviously fresh. A great breakfast for only paying 380 yen for the coffee!

Area: about 450m from Nakamura Nisseki Station 中村日赤駅 (Higashiyama subway line 東山線)
Restaurant: Ants Garden Café アンツ
Hours: 8am-5:30pm (LO 5pm), morning 8-11am, lunch 11am-2pm
                                       

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