Cafe Tera is a rather new, quaint little restaurant in the middle of a residential area that serves up kissaten (Japanese coffee house) style food in a bright cafe setting. It's clean, not too crowded, and the food is tasteful so I have been back several times.
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| Cafe Tera |
First let's talk about lunch. The weekday lunch menu consists of standard kissaten fare such as tonkatsu (panko fried pork cutlet), hamburger patty, shoga-yaki (ginger pork saute) and kara-age (fried chicken). I ordered the teriyaki chicken lunch. It came with a salad, Japanese pickles, miso soup and a scoop of potato salad. The chicken was very tender and juicy with a teriyaki sauce not too sweet nor too salty. The sauciness was great to eat with the bed of cabbage it lay on and with the steaming white rice. The pickled gobo (burdock root) was soft, but did not lose its characteristic texture, and the sweetness was perfect to eat with rice. The salad had a nice mix of vegetables; okra, carrot, nagaimo (a type of potato), fresh peas, mizuna (a salad green), and was topped with a creamy french dressing. The miso soup contained abura age (fried tofu), wakame, koya doufu (dried tofu), green onion, and was pretty standard in flavour. The potato salad was the chunky type and was season simply, but nicely with salt and pepper.
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| Weekday lunch menu |
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| Teriyaki chicken lunch |
At any time during the day one can order from a variety of sandwiches. If ordered in the lunch hours (11:30am-1:30pm), drinks are discounted 200 yen. I went with the egg sandwich; a thick, 3-egg
tamagoyaki (Japanese omelette) with a layer of cucumber mayonnaise salad, sandwiched between thin white bread. The tamagoyaki was made well, with a softness and lightness to it. The accent of mustard and black pepper in the sandwich was nice, and the ketchup added a bit of sweetness. The bread was slightly sweet and was probably made with margarine, making a great match with the lightly seasoned egg. I think I would have preferred a slightly denser or thicker bread to stand up to the thick tamagoyaki though.
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| Drink and food menu |
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| Egg sandwich |
"Morning service" is part of Nagoya culture and this cafe is not missing it. It's basically a free breakfast when you order a drink. Here, the basic Morning includes toast, a hard-boiled egg, and yogurt. There are also options with different toasts such as red bean paste, egg salad, or cinnamon. They all use half slices of white bread, but they are thick enough that it is a satisfying breakfast.
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| Egg salad toast with yogurt |
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| Toast with hard-boiled egg and yogurt |
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| Red bean paste toast with hard-boiled egg |
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| Cinnamon toast and yogurt |
For a slightly extra fee, there is also the bread salad available during morning hours.
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| Bread salad |
At one visit, I had the fruit herb tea. It was actually quite nice with a good blend of apple, mango, hibiscus, rosehip to name a few.
There is always an explanation about the featured coffee of the day (where it's from and it's flavour profile).
On weekends and holidays, the lunchtime menu changes to pasta options. One unique thing about this cafe is that it has seating outside on turf if you wish to bring along a furry friend.
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| Interior |
Area: about 100m from Honjin Station (Higashiyama Line) 本陣駅（東山線）
Restaurant: Cafe Tera カフェテラ
Map:
https://tabelog.com/aichi/A2301/A230113/23068560/dtlmap/
Hours: 7am-6pm,
closed Wednesdays
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