So many things in Japan are just wrong…like the talk show that I’m watching while I wait for my yakisoba here in beautiful downtown Maebashi. They seem to be doing ‘weird body facts’, and had a guy trying to eat udon while standing on his head in front of an xray machine so they could […]
Month: February 2009
Ohmiya, Marunouchi (新丸５階)
My friends, we are indeed on a tear with Shin Maru. I’m finding the walk down there from the office sorta pleasant, and the shot of mid-day glamor is most welcome when the rest of the day is a monotony of worn carpet, uncomfortable chair, and interminable passage of time. Ohmiya delivered a strange and […]
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Delirium Cafe Reserve, Akasaka
My friends, do you like beer? 4 out of 5 dentists agree that men like beer, in a strictly clichéd and stereotypic way. But I like beer, and my good friend McNoonan also likes beer, and we were having a little reunion last night involving the usual lunch cast-of-characters plus McN, and we went to […]
Bastide de Crillon, Otemachi (オアゾ５階)
“Crillon’s Castle”, or words to that effect, is tucked high in a mountain aerie where only eagles and brave or foolhardy men tread. Errr, flap and alight. And peck. Or something. Actually it’s just on Oazo’s 5th floor next to Amalfi Moderna, and its tablecloths share the same slightly vomitous shade of green. I was […]
Tenpachi, Tokyo (天ぱち, 東京駅キッチンストリート)
Tenpachi only gives out half-size business cards, so I’ll keep this brief. So I had lunch with Gita, who doesn’t eat animals (fish are OK) and we went to Kitchen Street in Tokyo Station. Something about that place makes me eat fried food; I would have been tempted by the beef-focused places if not for […]
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Bistro Columbus, Kanda
I’m not at all sure how I came to be in Kanda. No altered states were involved; I just started in Ochanu, disgruntled because I couldn’t find any of the things I wanted to look at in the guitar stores, thought of a place I wanted to go, found it full, kept walking to Akiba, […]
E’tavola, Otemachi
Much to the delight of colleagues, I still haven’t been to the same place twice in Marunouchi for lunch. OK, I’m more delighted about this than anyone else. Most people think it’s funny but a little…obsessive? Yup. Today was a ladies-in-black lunch, as Ponkan, Ponyo and Koala were all in mourning due to the fact […]
Urizun, Marunouchi (うりずん、新丸５階)
On a tear with the Shin Marus these days, aren’t we? In response to a recent conversation with one of our most dedicated and fatherly readers, I counted the actual number of restaurants. Minus the ‘specialty shops’ and coffee places and supermarkets and dedicated bars, Shin Maru alone has 4 restaurants in the basement, 1 […]
Broza’s, Nihonbashi
Lo, many many years ago I went to Broza’s and ate a burger and left. Actually that’s a little untrue – I waited for an hour in an extraordinarily dull neighborhood on a summery Saturday afternoon, then ate a burger and left. It was a nice day, but there wasn’t a thing to do around […]
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Gare de Lyon, Hatchobori
You know that little area on Kajibashi Dori where you cross the bridge, go under the highway, and emerge from Takaracho into Hatchobori? Right, me either, in spite of going through there any time I took a taxi home from work (not that often). So I’ll forgive you for not seeing this place from the […]