Location: Nipponbashi, across from the Gundam Shop
大阪府大阪市浪速区日本橋3-4-10Price: Pretty reasonable
What: California rolls in Japan! Here I could finally satisfy my cravings for mashed crab and avocado in rice. Even better were the cream cheese rolls, which sound a bit icky but were actually quite nice. Only drawback- it's a bar style restaurant which means it was pretty smokey. Oh, and they also do a 500 yen buffet breakfast!
Location: Sakai, Osaka
Price: Bit expensive for the cake, lunch menu is reasonable
What: Well, it's a shop that makes castella cakes dusted in edible gold. How is the cake? Yeah, for some reason, I didn't try it, I had a delicious stew(?) instead because I wanted a lunch set. The place was built on the grounds of some ancient tea master's residence and behind the shop there's a charming garden and tea house. We wanted to have our wedding reception here until they told us they don't have a liquor licence D: Anyhow, it is a lovely place so by all means check it out.
