My friends, I’ve figured out what I think of Jiyugaoka. This is not to say that I don’t like it, but the plethora of cute cafes, homewares stores and clothing boutiques says nothing to me so much as ‘rich housewives’. Perhaps in the same way that Sugamo is Obaa chan’s Harajuku, Jiyugaoka is a housewifve’s […]
Month: February 2009
Oteru, Monzennakacho (お照)
The personal email issues are almost solved, my friends. The IT team is starting to get things under control. After Ojisan and I left Hanabishi, I thougt I was going peacefully home. It was not to be, as he had his claws into me and insisted that I join him at another geisha-run place. This […]
Hanabishi, Monzennakacho (花菱)
EOITwJ is not dead, my friends, merely having computing problems. Thanks for your kind wishes. There is now an unfortunately huge backlog of eating out ‘experiences’ to get through, from Tuesday night, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Argh. Hanabishi turned out to be more of a history lesson than a culinary extravaganza, but since it […]
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Nenohi, Otemachi (ねのひ, Oazo 6th)
Someone wiser than myself once said “You get what you pay for”. This has been repeated ad naseum but still holds water, as recent Otemachi dining experience has shown. Fortunately there are still gradations within the spectrum of getting what you pay for, and today’s lunch was a good example of paying a healthy amount […]
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Takadaya, Otemachi (高田屋)
Y’know, for some reason I thought this was a huge chain. I feel like I’ve seen tons of them around town. Now, I’m not so sure – the card lists only 4, and a quick googling produces mainly some stores in Hokkaido (which seem like the main part of the chain, but only 6 or […]
Tanta Papatoria, Monzennakacho
Many’s the time I’ve been to Papatoria, my friends, many’s the time. Usually I’ve gone to the main restaurant in Tomioka 1 as opposed to this second store in Monzennakacho 1. Some would say it’s a fine point to differentiate between similar restaurants that are only separated by 3 minutes walk, and some would say […]
Yuboku, Marunouchi (遊牧, Shin Maru 5)
My friends, I believe I have uncovered the secret of receiving a good and worthwhile lunch in the Otemachi Metro Area (OMA, not to be confused with 鮪で有名な大間市). It is a simple secret, but one that has been known to man since the beginning of time. Pay for it. You get what you pay for. […]
Day Nite, Otemachi
There are always those days when it’s rainy and cold, and no one feels like going out, and you just want to stay in the building. Today wasn’t one of those days, so I’m not sure why we stayed in the building, but I got to have my first experience with the wacky cafeteria-style place […]
Mizuki Sushi (水喜), Monzennakacho
One of my colleagues was looking at the map-and-pin system last week and said “So, you don’t have any recommended sushi places?” The reason for this is more a result of Google’s functionality than anything else; I didn’t see a suitable icon for recommended sushi. But to a certain extent I didn’t have any sushi […]
La Verde, Otemachi
Today, rather than continue the addled and uninformative style we adopted yesterday, the Editorial Team feels it’s only proper to address a more serious subject – gnocchi. And more generally, the paucity of good Italian food in the places we’ve been frequenting for lunch. Admittedly, one shouldn’t expect too much from ‘red tablecloth’ Italian (not […]