Jumpee, Kanda

Before we get started, can I divert for an unrelated thing:Stuff Parisians Like is a funny blog. It’s openly ripped off from Stuff White People Like, but covers a group that I’m not part of and a place I’m interested in. OK, on to today’s dining adventure. Decayed and rotten fish is a great thing, […]

Da Cibo, Tokyo

Nearly 3 months ago, my friends, an impending GWC meeting caused a few of us to be in Nihonbashi at lunch hour. Not wanting to waste the opportunity, we went to Coredo for that lunch. In fact we ate pizza at a decent place with a genuine brick oven of the imported-from-Italy species. Today we […]

Suju Dining, Marunouchi (酢重)

Today’s lunch featured a recurring character, Ding, who announced unannounced that a new character would be joining the show. Hilarity was bound to ensue! We’ll call him Ricky. Actually, I was a little trepidational since Ricky isn’t a regular cast member, and irregular cast members could be inclined toward disgruntlifaction when faced with my starting-to-get-really-weird […]

Raj, Marunouchi

Hugo (or Julito, as we like to call him, being in a perpetually Spanish frame of mind these days) was in The City for only a few days, and thus the old team resolved to spend a bit of time together. Bizarrely, our attempt to simplify matters while still meeting his request for ‘simple Japanese […]

Kamekichi, Kanda (亀吉)

I know what you’re thinking. OK, I actually don’t, because no one ever really knows what someone else is thinking. But what I’M thinking right now is “Why isn’t this place called Kameyoshi?” I’m not even sure about the name, but The Googles seem to think it’s Kamekichi (except for the sites who write the […]