Le Cafe Michi

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beef curry rice / trifle

Another authentic japanese restaurant...Le Cafe Michi is by Sheppard/Pharmacy in scarborough (same plaza as Lin Garden). It's a small place with a few tables at the front and then a few more in the back with the sushi bar. The sushi here is supposed to be good but I wasn't really feeling it and decided to just go with one of their lunch combos. The interesting thing about the lunch combos here is that they come dessert....and just not some crappy orange slices, I mean real dessert...I guess with being a cafe and all they have quite the selection with stuff like green tea cake among many others.

Me being me, I of course got the beef curry rice combo ($13.50 + tax/tip) which came with salad, this appetizer trio thing, the curry, dessert, and tea (tea is otherwise extra). Some of the combos come with miso soup too but mine wasn't one of them. Unfortunately no pictures of the appetizer which was a trio of some tofu skin, some sort of spinach, and a small fried fish...all of which were ok. No katsu curry here so I had to settle for beef curry which also had some carrots and potatoes in it. Portion size was kind of small, the quality of the beef wasn't the best, and the flavour of the curry was lacking...needless to say I wasn't very impressed with the curry here.

For dessert you get to pick so I got a trifle. Layers of fruit, whipped cream, custard, and sponge cake...I'm not too big on desserts but this was pretty good. I was still kind of hungry after the curry but after polishing off that trifle I was definitely full.

Even though the curry was disappointing, this is probably another case of me not picking one of their better dishes. They seem to get alot of good reviews so I'll have to go back again and probably give their sushi a try...but at least that trifle was tasty.

Le Cafe Michi
1802 Pharmacy Ave
Scarborough, ON
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