It’s cool when you ask for a glass of champagne to start things off and the waiter says ‘white or rose, sir?’ I suppose you might expect that when the restaurant is named after the capital of Champagne (and still a word that my crappy French accent can’t negotiate). But it still set a nice […]
Month: August 2008
Issui (一穂), Monzennakacho
Is there anything better than a good izkaya? Well of course there is! Lots of things.Don’t be silly. But this place is definitely a good izakaya, which I would summarizewith the 3 F’s – friendly, fun, and fussy about food. I guess that’s 4, but I justmade it up.Issui is close to my place, in […]
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Café Singapura , Roppongi
For the regular lunch crowd, this used to be Golden Burning, variously known as’the Thai place’, ‘the Vietnamese place’, ‘the Asian place’ or ‘the red place’across from TV Asahi, at the bottom of Imoraizaka. ‘Red’ was a good description,what with the whole exterior being painted red and all. Now the red is gone(white, with a […]