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FORRESTER Spice & Music, Tokyo: Two Curries on One Plate in Nakameguro

A long oval white plate with rice down the middle topped by shredded purple and white cabbage, a crumbly curry that looks like minced meat, with corn kernels and red and green pepper pieces, on the left, and a dark smooth curry on the right, with a small cup of chopped pink and green bits and a handled dish of tomato sauce at the top.
The two-curry plate in April 2018: a crumbly curry with corn on the left, a dark curry on the right.
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FORRESTER Spice & Music (フォレスター) is a curry café and bar in Nakameguro, Tokyo, where in April 2018 I photographed a plate that holds two curries side by side. FORRESTER's own website describes a shop for curry and spice-themed dishes from around the world, built on the concepts Spice and music and Spice of Life.

The Combination: two curries on one plate

In the cover photo, a long oval plate has white rice down the middle with a heap of shredded purple and white cabbage on top. On the left is a crumbly curry that looks like minced meat, with corn kernels and pieces of red and green pepper, and on the right a dark, smooth curry. Putting two curries on one plate is often called aigake in Japan. FORRESTER's website lists the curries singly and in pairs: Butter Chicken, Beef, Keema (minced meat) and Vegetable.

A Google reviewer in January 2025 likes that the two curries sit on either side of the rice and can be eaten without mixing. A Google reviewer in July 2025 says the keema curry at FORRESTER has sweet corn in it, which fits the corn in my photo.

An oval white plate with white rice in the middle, an orange curry with swirls of white cream and a piece of meat at the lower left, a dark brown curry with chunks of meat at the upper right, and shredded cabbage on the rice, with two small cups of chopped pink and white bits at the top.
Another plate, with the curry split in two.

On another plate, an orange curry with swirls of white cream and a piece of meat sits opposite a very dark brown curry with chunks of meat, with rice and shredded cabbage between them. The orange curry looks like the Butter Chicken.

A cream-colored handled dish of red tomato sauce with round lumps that look like meatballs, topped with a crumbly white cheese-like dollop, dill-like sprigs and basil-like leaves, set on a square of paper over a round wooden board with a spoon behind it.
A handled dish of tomato sauce.

The handled white dish holds red tomato sauce with round lumps that look like meatballs, topped with a crumbly white cheese-like dollop, dill-like sprigs and basil-like leaves. FORRESTER's current menu includes a dish called Meatball with Spices, but I can't tell from the photo whether the 2018 dish was the same.

Curry, craft gin and music

A round wooden board with a handle leaning against a wall, with a dark green band across the middle chalked with FORRESTER and the word OPEN below it, and a crack running down through the wood.
The chalk sign in April 2018.

A round wooden board leaned against the wall with a green band chalked FORRESTER and, below it, OPEN, and a crack runs through the wood. Time Out Tokyo, in a March 2023 review, calls FORRESTER a relaxed café-bar for curry and craft gin, with about 100 craft and premium gins and a playlist built mainly on deep house. A Retty reviewer in November 2023 writes that FORRESTER opened in 2015.

Before you go

  • FORRESTER is in Room 201 of the Executive Daikanyama building. A Retty reviewer in March 2025 says the building faces Komazawa-dori, the shop is on the second floor, and the way up is a narrow staircase.
  • A Retty reviewer in March 2026 says FORRESTER's weekly lunch special comes out more slowly than the curries.
  • Retty lists credit cards and PayPay at FORRESTER.

How to order

Show this to the staff

ビーフとキーマのコンビネーションをお願いします。

Bīfu to kīma no konbinēshon o onegaishimasu.

The Beef and Keema combination, please.

辛さは控えめにできますか。

Karasa wa hikaeme ni dekimasu ka.

Can you make it less spicy?

おすすめのジンはありますか。

Osusume no jin wa arimasu ka.

Do you have a gin you would recommend?

日本語で読む

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