If you're having a busy afternoon in Jiyugaoka, perhaps shopping for designer napkin rings and artisanal salt, Lobros is the perfect spot for a refreshing tea break. Located inside Trainchi, the very tasteful housewares shopping complex alongside the Tokyu tracks, Lobros is airy and spacious, with a big outdoor terrace. The music is bouncy vocal jazz, and the decor is California casual, with an open kitchen, candles on the tables and lots of plants.

The food menu is simple and health-oriented - organic vegetables, fresh-baked breads, pastas, risotti, sandwiches, grilled meats. The organic vegetable platter (Y1200) is a huge helping of raw and steamed vegetables fresh from the garden, with a mild bagna cauda-inspired sauce for dipping. The healthy theme continues with organic-veg ratatouille, warm-vegetable salad, ten-vegetable minestrone soup and a grilled-veg platter.

If you want something meatier, the sauteed free-ranged chicken (Y1850) is a respectable-sized portion served with roast potatoes and vegetables and artistic drizzlings of pesto sauce. Fruit-juice and vinegar cocktails, with or without alcohol, are refreshing and not overly tart. There's a very diverse wine list, covering the New World, France, Spain and Japan, with seven wines by the glass from Y600. Bottles are priced Y3,200-9,000 (for a Havens Merlot from Napa Valley). You can also choose from more conventional cocktails, microbrew beer, herbal and regular teas, and coffee.