Properly speaking, I think this place has a longer and more difficult name – 南国酒家広東炒麺. I’ve said it last week and I’ll say it again, why do these chains create one-off sub-brands? Do the guests in Tokyo Station really prefer to eat Cantonese-style fried noodles as opposed to the normal multi-disciplinary Chinese food served in […]
Month: June 2009
Gabrier, Monzennakacho (ガブリエ)
Beer!!!!!!Yeah, definitely looking forward to tomorrow so I can let this motif go. Gabrier opened a couple months ago in the restaurant street north of Eitai dori – if you remember where there use to be a kinda long, narrow Italian place, with Ivy growing on the front, close to S&S izakaya and the main […]
- Otemachi
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Yoshida, Otemachi (生そば 吉田)
Soba!!!I’m glad it’s Friday so I can stop doing this excited one-word introduction gimmick. I’ve just been trying to something that would grab your attention. Actually this reminds me of a really funny comedy routine that my friend Fred did one time. As part of a larger show, he came out between various song-and-dance numbers […]
Espressamente Illy, Marunouchi
Coffee!!!No, not really, because I haven’t been drinking coffee much this year (good lord, the year’s almost half over). But today 鈴寺さん and I went out so I could listen to her complain about work, and we headed toward Kitchen Street again, and then I remembered the semi-outdoor place at the northwest extreme of Tokyo […]
- Other treats
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Vimon, Tokyo
Beef!!!! I’ve been eating too much brown rice and vegetable this week (comments about big plates of curry and burger notwithstanding. Or maybe those comments should be withstanding, and this should be themed ‘hambagu week’ at EOITwJ. This paranthetical has now completely hijacked the first paragraph, so let’s just leave it open and go about […]
- Italian
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Occhiali pasta fresca, Kanda
Sausage! I love Italian sausage, and frequently bemoan the inability to source same in Tokyo. I’ve had a few good examples, but they seemed to be more made-by-the-restaurant rather than purchased, and even in Italian specialty locations, I’ve struck out on buying authentic lil’ wieners.Today featured a solitary and meditative bike ride, my friends, followed […]
Beer Chimney, Marunouchi
Go ahead, keep on-a hatin’. We’re going to continue going to the dodgy places under the railroad tracks until they’re exhausted (even if we’re exhausted first). And once in a while, they’re going to turn out to be pretty good! EOITwJ will never fully understand some things about Japan. Or possibly Japanese corporations will never […]
Vinchou, Marunouchi
Gaaarrrrh! Just when I thought it was safe to re-visit a place, circumstances conspire to extend the new-lunch-venue streak through yet another week! OK, that’s not really so frustrating. It’s a dorky point of pride. The good ship Wolf is soon bound for sunnier pastures and more mixilated metaphors after nearly 3 years in Japan. […]