ウレシイ・タノシイ　カフェ

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2019-02-26

日本で初めての外食は「ウレタノカフェ」でした。

ウレタノカフェは「ウレシイ」と「タノシイ」、この二つ言葉の組み合わせで、2001年から江戸橋のすぐ近くにある人気店です。三重大学の周りの住宅は全員知っているかもしれません場所です。

一番混んでいる時はランチタイムです。早めに名前を書いておかないと、待ち時間が長くなります（本当に凄いんです）。それはどうして何でしょうか？

店員さんの言葉によると「自分自身がその（嬉しい、楽しい）気持ちで店をやっていて、お客様にその気持ちを感じさせたい」。確かにこの言葉を聞くと、この店を訪ねる方は美味しさだけを求めて来るのではなく、居心地の良い場所も与えてくれるからです。この店では嬉しさや、楽しさを感じられますので皆来るんですね。

ウレタノカフェは日替わりメニューを毎週お店のブログに紹介しています。ご飯や、グラタン、サラダ、パン、スープなどをセットにして、和食っぽいものもあれば、洋食っぽいものもあって、それをとても美味しいコンビネーションにしています。それに、多くのメニューは野菜がたっぷり含まれていますので、健康に気を付けている方にも人気があります。ランチタイムは一番混んでいる時間なのは無理もないですね。

日替わりランチメニュー以外、サンドイッチメニューもあります。様々な種類があって、ランチタイムやお昼過ぎでも、好きな時間にいただけます。ただし、どれも大量のサラダが付いてきますで、一人でも、二人で食べても大丈夫です。サンドイッチも店員さんのオススメです。

ウレタノカフェではお茶もできます。パフェ―やコーヒーは確かに頼めますが、そこでは手作りお菓子が大人気です。様々なお菓子の種類もあって、どれも美味しそうに見えますが、一番早く売れ切れてしまうのはシュークリームです。それには理由があります。

ここのシュークリームは他のお店と比べて外がカリカリで、大きくて、中のクリームは食べる直前までには入れられていません。そのため、食べる時にはちょっと冷たくて、もっと美味しく味わえると思います。店員さんもシュークリームをおすすめしています！私もここのシュークリームが一番美味しいと思っています。スイーツはどれもお持ち帰り可能ですので、ランチ後はもう売れ切れている場合が多く、早めに買いに行った方が確実です。

ウレタノカフェは三重県津市江戸橋1-92-14、江戸橋駅出口から徒歩約5分です。定休日は月曜日です。一人、カップル、友達、日本人や外国人にすごく人気があります。女子会もできます。是非行ってみて下さい！

英文・English

Since 2001 Uretano Café (ウレタノカフェ) exists near the Edobashi bridge. This place is very famous considering its localization. I think most of people in the Mie University knows this place.

The name of the shop is a combination of two words: ウレシイ (ureshii) andタノシイ (tanoshii) which means “happiness” and “enjoyable/ pleasant”. As the owner told me “we try to express our own happy feelings to who comes here. Doing so, we think people can spend their time feeling happy, eating and enjoying a good food”. I think those wishes are perfectly transmitted to the costumers, once they enter in the shop and I hear them saying “oishii”.

Uretano Café is a very popular place. They update the lunch menu on their weekly blog. This system allows you to choose the best day to go and enjoy their homemade lunch menu, which includes rice, pasta, salad and soup in a combined set menu, served as a very tasty combination of Japanese and western style foods. Additionally, the foods usually come with plenty of salad and vegetables. So, this place is also very popular for people who are concerned about eating healthy foods. I think this is why Uretano Café is so crowded during the lunch time.

There is also the owner`s well-recommended sandwich menu other than the daily lunch one. There are some different types of sandwiches that can be eaten during lunch time or in the afternoon in the shop. However, since all of them come with a large amount of salad, I think it is better to be divided with two people rather than for one person only (it doesn’t mean you cannot eat it all alone).

Uretano Café is an ideal place to spend the snack time too. There, you can have parfaits or drink a cup of coffee, but I would recommend you to have their homemade sweets. There are a lot of kind of sweets and all of them are delicious. However, the choux cream is the one that is sold out faster. And there are reasons for that.

Compared to other shops, the choux cream here is big, crispy in the outside and it is filled up with the cream just before eating. Thus, when eating, this sweet is a bit cold and the cream feels tastier and delicious. The owner told me this is a “must eat” sweet in his shop and I also agree with him. Since the sweets are available for take-out, the choux-cream usually disappears after lunch time. So, you have to be quick if you want to try the choux cream!

Most of my friends are no longer studying here anymore. Some of them went back to their countries, while others moved to another places. However, there is something in common with my foreigner friends and Japanese friends: all of them love the choux cream and their sandwiches. And every time we meet again, Uretano Café is a must go place!

Uretano Café is located at Mie-ken, Tsu-shi, Edobashi, 1-92-14. It is located about 5 minutes walking from Edobashi station. It is closed on Mondays. It is a good place to go alone, in couples or with friends to spend a good, relaxing and a happy time.