This weekend we had the opportunity to eat at two of our favorite restaurants. On Friday night after work Kuniko and I met in Motomachi for a couple beers at Rokko Beer Diner (they were debuting a new Weizen beer) and then we walked over to Sannomiya to eat dinner at Oliva. Oliva serves Spanish food, and it had been years since we had been there. For some reason I thought we ought to go back and give it another try since we’ll be eating the real thing this summer.
The food was excellent as usual, and we really enjoyed the variety of tapas that they had to start off with. The atmosphere is also very good there, even though it is a tiny restaurant.
Saturday Kuniko had to work most of the day, so I prepared steak fajitas for dinner. I’m not sure but it might have been Kuniko’s first experience with fajitas. She loved them, and we killed everything in one sitting. That and a couple of margaritas made Saturday a fun night.
Then yesterday night we went to a concert put on by some of Kuniko’s students in Kobe. The mandolin guitar club always does a yearly concert, and Kuniko wanted to see some of her students performing in the club. We caught the last part of the concert only, and then headed into Akashi for dinner at Chiro. Dinner there was excellent as usual, and the homemade pasta with pepper sauce and shrimp was the winner of the night for me. The chef and the manager came out and gave us a warm welcome, so it was almost like VIP treatment. Nice people there.
Now it is time to get back to work. This week is my last week of work before Golden Week – I’ll get ten days off in a row starting next Saturday. It’ll be hard to concentrate on my work with such a big holiday coming up.
