GW 2012: Alice in Wonderland Fantasy Dining

My dear friend Marissa was an English major in college, so she's very well-read and knows all sorts of literary things that I never will. I have an epic to-be-read list of books that always gets longer and she's already conquered at the majority of the classics on that list. I feel like a doofus around her sometimes because it takes me effing FOREVER to finish a book, but it's nice to be able to ask her if I should read something and getting a firm yes or no in response. And then an extensive list of reasons why.

Anyway, she likes Alice in Wonderland. I forget at the moment if she liked the book or not, but it's one of her favorite things evarrrrr. She heard about the Alice in Wonderland cafe in Ginza and has been trying to get us to go since... last summer? We never got around to it until the end of our work holiday.

Similar to the chain that owns the Mysterious space-themed bar and The Lock-Up, the owners of this restaurant have a bunch of themed restaurants in Ginza. When they say "fantasy dining," they mean it.

The elevator opens up to a small reception area with scrolls and playing cards on the walls. The Disney version is pretty much the only version that exists in Japan, so all the waitresses were dressed up like characters from the cartoon. The music in the restaurant was an eclectic mix of foreign language Disney songs, Beauty and the Beast in French FTW, and music from less famous soundtracks like the original Parent Trap film from the 60's.

We were led to our table in a nice secluded booth with pink and purple striped walls and blue couches. Basically, we ate inside the Cheshire Cat.

I felt like this restaurant was very well decorated and thought out. It bordered on cheesy without crossing the line into looking overdone. Around the corner from our booth was an open dining area that looked AWESOME.

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Tabletop~

A tea party in a tea cup??? Why it's mad!

Our menu was a cube with a diorama scene and a clock that didn't work. Details around the table, like the playing card coaster and Alice call button, were nice touches.

Okay yeah enough ambiance, let's get to the food!!! Every guest to the restaurant has to order a drink and a food item, and the total for our meal came out to about 3000yen per person.

It's a caterpillar roll!

We always get fries.

Some sort of croissant shrimp thing in Cheshire Cat form. DELICIOUS.

Clock margarita pizza.

Salmon in white cream sauce.

Dessert trio with the Caterpillar, Cheshire Cat, and Mad Hatter.

I thoroughly enjoyed my experience in this fantasy dining establishment. We got there early on a weekday, like half an hour after they opened, so we didn't need a reservation but this place fills up fast. By the time we left around 7:20pm, most of the tables around us had been seated.

This chain also owns a vampire cafe but... lol vampires.