One of the toughest things about traveling and covering so many locations is that you hope to do a write up on a place you visit that is still around.
There are times where you fall in love with a place and to find out that they closed down a month later.
And unfortunately, this was the case for me as I went to Cafe the 6BT in Akasaka in November, just to find out it closed on December 30, 2016.
The restaurant was located between Tokyo Midtown and the Sony Music Entertainment HQ (or between Nogizaka Station and Roppongi Station) is the vegan restaurant, Cafe the 6BT.
Located in a row of shops that practice healthy living, Cafe the 6BT offers only vegan food that uses no animal-sourced ingredients. No artificial flavorings or refined white sugar.
So, pretty much dishes with no egg, meat, fish, milk, refined sugar or MSG.
The restaurant makes their own original wheat flour noodle to have the same texture and flavor of a regular wheat flour noodle. Their soups uses konbu (kelp) of Hokkaido’s Rausu, Shiitake mushrooms from Shizuoka and enokidake (velvet shank) grown in the source water of Shinshu.
courtesy of http://6bt.jp/en/menu001.html
courtesy of http://6bt.jp/en/menu001.html
So for lunch, you can try a special menu set of the vegan coriander ramen featuring for Y1300 and for dinner, there is a course menu of six kind of vegetables in Italian dressing with soup or you can get vegan soy-sauce ramen, vegan miso ramen, vegan soy milk Tan-Tan noodle, Vegan Tomato Ramen or Vegan Curry Ramen for Y900. And there are dinner sets for Y1490 which include steamed seasonal vegetables or stir-fried soymeat with chili sauce. Each served withbrown rice, soup and soymilk vanilla ice cream.
Their sweets without dairy products and white sugar is produced by Kazuya Wakayama – the owner patissier of Patisserie Jeunesse (in Sapporo), the winner of the 2009 Sapporo Sweets Competition.
The company produces juices that are cold pressed with a special juicer that prevents to loss of nutrition due to friction heat and maximize nutritional value.
And as for their coffee, their organic coffee beans are selected by coffee sommeliers of the America Coffee Association.
If you are looking for healthy vegan food in Tokyo, Cafe the 6BT may have closed down in Akasaka, but the owner has been relocated to the Tomamu Resort in Hokkaido working at the Green Kitchen which serves the best ingredients from Hokkaido.
While I don’t like to post about defunct restaurants, I do want to support the owner of the Cafe the 6BT and future endeavors, so while Cafe the 6BT will be missed, you can check out Green Kitchen at Tomamu Resort.
