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Tea Room Alice
Today we went to Tea Room Alice, at Nakano Broadway 4th floor (a floor of which about half is unused). Tea Room Alice is part of the recently popular "maid kissa" trend going on mostly in Akihabara. But Nakano being otaku no machi, of course we have one of these too.
The cute-ish girls serving you are all wearing a blue cosplay-style maid dress, not unlike Alice in Wonderland's. The place is decorated with teddy bears and stuff, and the cutlery is small and cute.
Coffee is ¥450, and a cake and coffee set is ¥750. The coffee seemed like instant stuff, and the cake was so-so and maybe a bit too sweet, but one shouldn't expect to go there only for the food anyway. For the hungry there's still a variety of kissaten-style plates (curry, pasta, omrice, etc.).
The ambiance was kind of fun, customers (there were no big otakus at the time, mostly normal-looking people, even a majority of girls) were laughing with the staff. We felt a bit shy to be hanging out at such a place, but it's sure worth a (one) visit.
Customers aren't allowed to stay for more than an hour and a half. Especially since they were playing B'z though, we didn't stay that long.
Pictures were prohibited inside, but if you go it seems like you can buy their original 2005 calendar. I moblogged the outside.
Update: Pictures can be seen here. The girl without glasses is one of those who served us.
Posted on January 23, 2005 at 17:45 | Tweet
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oh wow .. no pictures inside !!! ... i can semi understand the reason .. but what if that becomes a trend ... all that fun in blogging and moblogging ...
i started to notice that a few years ago in New Orleans, I saw a lot of signs 'no pictures' in shops !
Posted by Peter on January 23, 2005 at 19:43
Indeed it's too bad. Especially that it's mostly in those places where you'd definitely want to take pictures!
Posted by Patrick on January 23, 2005 at 21:47