Relax at the Ladies & Gentlemen Bistro Café

This special bistro café offers customers a delicious range of French cuisine and speciality teas to enjoy while taking a break from shopping. The Tokyo-style bistro café was is the result of a collaboration between a leading Japanese chef and a pastry chef.

Service manager Mr Sakoda tells us that there are two meanings behind the café’s name. One meaning comes from the fact that it is on the way to the menswear floor from the ladieswear floor. The other meaning implies that people who visit Isetan are true ladies and gentlemen.

The atmosphere inside the café is completely different depending on which side you choose to sit in. The area on the right has an open kitchen so you can dine while watching the cooking process, which is performed on hot iron plates.

The most popular menu item is the salt hamburger steak with truffle salt and a demi-glace sauce. The surface of the hamburger steak is cooked to crisp perfection and gravy flows from the steak when you cut into it.

The demi-glace sauce and truffle salt are served separately to the hamburger steak, allowing you to enjoy it with a sweet and savoury taste.

After a fulfilling meal, it is time for dessert. Among the many desserts offered, cheese soufflé pancake, cooked on a hot iron plate, is the most popular choice.

Cheese soufflé pancakes are described on the menu as ‘a warm and fluffy roll soufflé dessert cooked on an iron plate with a generous portion of honey.’ You will encounter many instances where the chef’s skills on the iron plate are shown.

A fluffy cream flows out when you gently put the knife through the soufflé.

The moment it’s in your mouth, the delicate sweetness of honey and powdered sugar softens the tart flavour of the fruit. It is a satisfying dish, and can even be enjoyed as a light meal.

On entering the café, customers discover a cool space with a coffee bar counter. A drink from the espresso machine will make you forget about time as you savour each sip, crafted using carefully selected coffee beans. The bar also has an array of colourful teas.

The Ladies and Gentlemen Bistro Café, on the third floor of the main building, is a rejuvenating space where you can conveniently stop by on your way to the men’s building. The space is the perfect place for a pause between shopping or business meetings, and for catching up with friends.

Pick up a book from the bookshelf as you sit on the sofa. Please try to forget the flow of time for a moment and inject a moment of peace into your shopping day.