Cafe Continue
A hip hotspot in already trendy Ame-mura, this
cafe has a built-in advantage that puts it quite literally ahead
of the competition — it's never closed.
Open 24-7, the appropriately named Cafe Continue,
makes sure it stays busy by making sure there's no excuse not to
go there.
Short of cash? Not a problem: the food dishes
start at under ¥500. Work antisocial hours? So do the staff
at Continue, the poor things, and all so you can satisfy a craving
for, well, whatever you'd like, at whatever ridiculous hour you'd
like it.
Going
out with someone who'd like to eat/drink like a horse/fish, while
all you want is a skinny latte and a long chat? The menu covers
both light and hearty ends of the food and drink spectrum and you
won't get stared at by the waiter if you don't order enough to pay
off his credit card bill (the staff do, it is true, look a tad too
trendy to be the saving type).
If you are after a light meal, the scrambled eggs
on toast (¥350) comes recommended, as do the salads (from ¥600)
if calories concern.
The most popular dish however is the generously
proportioned Om-rice (¥680) — chicken and mushroom fried
rice, wrapped in a fluffy omlette. Significant sustenance can also
be had with the 'A' teishoku (¥900), consisting of hamburg,
fried chicken, rice and miso soup and best consumed with Continue's
enduringly fruity frozen mixed juice (¥700).
The drinks menu, alcohol-based and not, is comprehensive
too and that, combined with some well-chosen background music, makes
Continue a good pre or post-clubbing pit stop (clubbers looking
for suggestions for the night ahead might want to browse the flyers
near the door).
It may not satisfy everyone. It is, after all,
very much in the 'trendy Japanese cafe' mould — all gleaming
aluminium, light-coloured walls and minimalist interior cool —
but it comes pretty close and is, at last, a place as 24 hours as
you are. Drop by. Anytime.
Cafe Continue
H2O Bld 1F, 1-4-14, Kitahorie Nishi-ku, Osaka 550-0014.
Tel: 06-6539-8600.
Open: 24 hrs!
menu highlights*
Om-rice (fried rice wrapped in omlette): ¥680
'A' teishoku (set meal): ¥900
Yakisoba teishoku (set): ¥700
Japanese style pasta with aojiso (perilla) and mentaiko (spicy,
pickled cod roe): ¥800
Loco-moco rice bowl: ¥800
Over 30 dishes available.
Drinks*
Mixed Juice: ¥700
Moccacino: ¥600
Over 50 drinks available.
*Everything is ¥100 more expensive after 23:00
Text and Photos: Terumi Tsuji
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