Pennennenemu Harry Restaurant

Miyuki told us about this cute little restaurant she thought the girls may enjoy.  They did and we are so glad to have spent an afternoon at Pennennenumu Harry.

One of the even-more-special parts of this trip was that the restaurant had two little dogs and one was "Harry" from a book that Grace's Specials teachers read to her last year in Kindergarten.  So, except for the Japanese title and text..she recognized it the second we walked in the door - where it was on display with the dogs.

Grace had liked the book Mrs. Freking read to the class so much, she checked it out from the library for me to read to she and Sarah at home.  So, we all remembered the cute story about a dog named Harry...







Here is a photo of the girls with the book (in Japanese).  The girls are standing right in front of the dogs (below).  The black dog has a Japanese name and also had a book that he was named after too.  Unfortunately I can't spell or pronounce his name...but here they are.  "Harry" and his friend:


The golden brown dog is "Harry"



Next, we went upstairs to find a table.  You find many Japanese restaurants are multi-level for seating.  Here are the girls enjoying looking through the books, many of which we did recognize (just couldn't read)...

    

Grace was excited to see one of Jim's favorites
as a child..."Where the Wild Things Are"

 















As you can see, even at the table, there were plenty of books to select and choose from.  (behind Grace above)




"A Light in the Attic" by Shel Silverstein





And then, the food arrived!  Grace wouldn't eat her "Harry" cookie because it was too cute (at least for a while) and the girls oohed and ahhed over the cute little cocoa powder paw prints that were on the plates!

Lemon cheesecake for the girls (above).

Tiramisu for me (below).  Sarah and I ended up trading...she wasn't too excited about the lemon part.

And if you order a meal...this is the presentation that is delivered to your table.  You may be able to see a little, but the bread is shaped and decorated to look like a little turtle!

And, you know octopus is common here.  We ARE on an island in the middle of the ocean...it's in the grocery stores, it's in many, many dishes at restaurants, it's placed on pizza and mixed in fried noodles.  But, please don't think that means that we are eating much of it!

However, we did think it fitting that they had an octopus slide in a park a block away that we stopped at for a few minutes on the way home.  I made this picture larger so you could try to see Sarah in it's mouth (or that's how the girls explained it)!

We are so glad Miyuki suggested that we visit this place.  What a special afternoon!