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This is the second installment of a hopefully long series of cheese plates served at Gentil Restaurant in Shizuoka City.
The Cheese Sommelier, Ms. Keiko Kubota is the not only the sole Japanese holding the title of compagnon d’Honneur de Taste Fromage in Japan, but she was asked to choose, prepare and serve the cheeses offered to all these vey improtant people at the G8 Summit held last July in Hokkaido.
This time I was more careful with the picture, and I hope you will see it in a better light!
The cheese featured on the above picture are (from left to right)
-Sakura/from Hokkaido, cow’s milk from a cow breed called Brown Swiss.
-“Murasaki Imo”?viole yam chips
-Craquebitte/France, Loire, goat’s milk
-Crutin/Italy, Piemonte cow’s and ewe’s milk with Piemonte truffles
-Bleu d’Auvergne/France, Auvergne, cow’s milk with dry French muscat raisins.
Rowena will be happy to see an Italian cheese, and a great one (it costs a fortune!) featured:
Crutin.
As for wine, the cheese was beautifully paired with a 2001 Monthelie (France/Cote d’Or) by Gerard Doreau!
Restaurant Gentil
Address:420-0031 Shizuoka Shi, Gofuku-cho, 2-9-1, Gennan Kairaku building, 2F
Tel.: 054-2547655 (Reservations advisable)
Fax: 054-2210509
Opening hours: 12:00~14:00, 18:00~last orders for meals at 21:30. Bar time 18:00~23:30. Closed on Mondays.
Credit cards OK
Homepage (Japanese)
Je t’en prie!
Tout le plaisir est le mien!
Robert-Gilles
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Thank you for your kind words on my blog. I look forward to reading yours too. I am also honored that yours was the first comment in French! Merci beaucoup!
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Hooray!
Got you there!
LOL
Robert-Gilles
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Well this is a surprise because I have never even heard of Crutin! Can you sense my envy?!?! 😉
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Dear Heather!
Greetings!
It certainly did!
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Konbanha, Robert-Gilles-san!
That cheese looks like a little log of bliss.
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