Nomadika Café & Bistro, Kobe

 

A boozy lunch experience, let’s blunch!

 

Our beloved Kobe is not only famous for its drunk cows but also has a decent café scene. The fool proof place for a savvy lunch or kitsch coffee is definitely (in my opinion) Motomachi, those of you who have ever attended a Hyogo AJET Book Club will be aware of my obsession with this area. A ten minute walk south-west from Sannomiya station will land you in café central. Vintage shops, boutiques, burger joints and veggie cafes make up the majority of businesses in Motomachi. When there is this much choice in a quieter end of town, one can get overwhelmed. But I’m here to help: I’ve singled out one particularly delightful café & bistro that only opened its doors in April 2014.

Nomadika (the choice for June’s Hyogo AJET Book Club venue) is a bright, spacious place with the added touch of pastel coloured bikes as décor and hipster merchandise in one. The wide, wooden tables, fresh look and floods of natural sunlight plead for summer get-togethers and long lunches.

 

The lunch menu is simple with only four dishes to choose from; two pasta dishes, grilled pork loin and (always managing to make an appearance) Wagyu beef steak-frites. After sampling the spicy tomato, octopus and squid pasta and the tender pork pasta I can conclude that both are satisfactory lunch meals. The ingredients were fresh and the sauces well seasoned, but don’t expect to be transported to Italy in one mouthful.

 

The lunch set ranges from 1280\ to 2000\ which includes salad, bread, homemade gazpacho and all-you-can-drink wine. YES you heard right, until 3pm, you can indulge in all the sparkling wine from the bar and all the wine from the wine cellar to your liver’s content. We can give those Wagyu cattle a run for their money! Nomadika operates a self service drinks bar with a variety of exciting soft drinks too, including rooibos iced tea (also known as red bush tea) and balsamic vinegar juice for the more daring.

 

With places like Nomadika, Kobe has reinvented brunch by a subtle change in lettering, blunch. Ready to be entered into the Oxford English Dictionary:

Blunch. (noun) a boozy lunch

(verb) to eat blunch: we regularly blunch at the weekend but rarely remember doing so…

 

Begin with a tipple, follow with tiramisu (+200\ to the lunch set), cure the midday hangover with a latte, stumble into the evening, or stay for a Eurasian dinner. All doable at Nomadika café & bistro.

 

Join the blunch revolution.

 

Cherie Pham

 

More Information:

 

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http://www.hotpepper.jp/strJ001050764/ Japanese only

 

Every day 11:30～23:00

Irregular holidays

050-5887-6834

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