Oazo B1 branch of this purportedly Shanghai restaurant. 4 choices of lunch set hovering around Y1000, with today’s choices including Ma Po Tofu, Tan Tan Men (these are Shanghai specialties? I didn’t know Shanghai was in Sichuan!), Hoi Ko Lo (sorry I can’t spell this) and egg/jellyfish/pork stir fry. My ma po was adequately spicy […]
Month: January 2009
Ganesha, Otemachi
“I just saw Slumdog Millionaire and boy am I hungry!” ==> Indian lunch.OK, that wasn’t really how it went, but the movie was mentioned at lunch (again, after its strong performance at Golden Globes). Ganesha is in fact the Indian restaurant in the basement of the JA building where I knew the waitress from another […]
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The Acquarium at Dunhill, Ginza
Ever since I saw a picture of this place on someone else’s site, I wanted to go. It’s not the food, as you’ll see below, but it IS the ambience and location. Similar to Harrod’s Brompton in Roppongi, this captures some refined English atmosphere in the heart of Tokyo. It’s very different; in fact the […]
- French
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Quintessence, Shiroganedai (カンテサンス,白金台)
There’s a set of people who apparently spend a fair part of their time and money going to the world’s best restaurants. I don’t aspire to be one of them, because it’s so damn expensive, but I do enjoy reading their reviews and seeing the pictures. In that spirit, here’s what it was like to […]
Uomatsu, Monzennakacho
Post-ice cream, pre-dinner snack? Check. Uomatsu opens at 3 PM on Sundays, and is always full when I walk by at night. Has to be something going on there. They specialize in cheap, fresh seafood, cooked ‘beach style’ on the red charcoal grills that sit on every table. For lunch they advertise the ‘one coin’ […]
Theobroma, Kagurazaka
Well, it’s been simply ages since I’ve been to a good museum, and when presented with the opportunity to visit Theobroma’s “Museum of Chocolate” gelateria in Kagurazaka, it seemed like an obvious thing to do. Scratch any lunch plans, let’s have ice cream instead… This is on a quiet side street in Kagurazaka, but a […]
Kanda Grill, Akihabara
Once again finding myself in Akiba (funny how that always happens…), I wandered around the Showa Dori side for quite a while looking for somewhere tasty to lunch. Seat seems to post Akiba places every week, so I thought I’d run into them…but nothing appealed, and I ended up back at the big Yodobashi and […]
- izakaya
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Torafuku, Futako Tamagawa (寅福)
Hey, what a nice izakaya! I’ve been reading lately, on various bulletin boards, the posts from people who come to Japan for ‘culinary adventure’ trips. This means they try to eat at Sukiyabashi Jiro and Sushi Mizutani, Ryugin, and then branch out to Japanese soul food like ramen, izakaya, okonomiyaki, etc. There seems to be […]
Gokumen, Otemachi (新浪漫亭)
Late lunch, limited time…I still don’t want to let a day go by without trying something new. After all, I’ll probably only work in Otemachi for another…oh, 300 business days (pleasant thought!) so I have to make the most of it. There’s a row of restaurants under the Yamanote sen / Chuo Honsen tracks just […]
En, Marunouchi (だし茶漬け えん, 新丸ビル)
I swear that the current boom products are ochazuke and tsukemen. Both of these are, for me, in a class of “nice, but a little too subtle”, and for some reason I want to describe ochazuke as ‘pallid’. It’s a very gentle sort of snack. Anyway, En is a counter fast food ochazuke place that […]