This is a bit of a genre unto itself, isn’t it? By that I mean not the ‘Kyo Banzai’ that Yuru and Yura specialize in, but rather “Dark wood bar with good snacks run by women and playing reggae”. The food’s good, the atmosphere is pleasant in a weird ‘tropical Kyoto’ way, and it seems […]
Month: April 2009
Vin de Reve, Ginza 1-Chome (東)
Vin de Reve gets high marks in some quarters, and I’ve been itching to try it for some time. A casual Tuesday night proved too much to resist, so I cruised down to The Wine of Dreams for a quiet glass and some nourishment. When I say ‘cruised’, of course I mean ‘rode my pearl-white […]
- Kanda
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Frank, Kanda (フランク、鍛冶町)
Where do they get these names? By ‘they’ I mean ‘the people of Japan’. Still, we love ’em, one and all (the funny names). Frank is a more-than-worthy contribution to the name sweepstakes. Where does the word ‘sweepstakes’ come from? (This is a colorless and unsurprising explanation. Yuck. I hold out hope for a more […]
Saigon, Otemachi
It’s no secret around the EOITwJ offices that we like ‘dad jokes’ or ‘oyaji gags’, in today’s parlance. That’s why translating the name of this place as ‘The Last Grunt’ is so amusing right now. (最後んっ.) Good to the Last Grunt? My friend J. had the fortune, I won’t say if it’s good or bad, […]
- French
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Yonemura, Ginza (よねむら)
Kick. Ass. Food. Granted, EOITwJ doesn’t write about a lot of it, but here it is. Yonemura doesn’t show up convincingly on radar – you won’t find a lot of reviews other than these, and the web site is weak (I especially like how the first review mentions that it’s the writer’s first time to […]
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Casa Camaron, Ginza (Velvia)
Patrick Hutter (not his real name) lived across the hall from me freshman year at Wesleyan. He was a funny character, a German who had grown up most of the time in Mexico where his father was an exec with Siemens. He had a Strat, which he played only once in a while, some odd […]
Igrek, Marunouchi
Man, the hits keep on coming. Today saw us down in Shin Maru, ticking off a place that’s crossed the radar any number of times but always come up short for either fullness (it gets that way at lunch) or theoretic cost performance (I dunno, the dinners just look a touch…hmmm.). For lunch, the quality […]
Kaku-uchi, Tokyo (角打)
Accidents will happen, especially in the current global climate. Bearing this in mind, we at EOITwJ try to remain open to happy accidents, especially when they involve the happy accident of finding a cheap yet tasty lunch locale in Greater Otemachi. Clearly this policy is going to result in some unhappy accidents as well; despite […]
- Other treats
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Suginoko Udon, Tokyo (すぎのこ、東京駅キチンストリート)
Yesterday, my friends, marked the end of our three month ‘experimental’ period here at EOITwJ. For the first three months of Otemachi life, we resolved to 1) Wear no tie that we had previously worn in our old lives, but only ties that we bought over the New Year’s break and 2) Eat lunch at […]