My friends, I am genuinely excited to inform both of you that I have found something that shatters two of my previously-held notions: 1. Spain bars have boring, ordinary food (and the food in Spain had better be better by next month, or there’ll be hell to pay) and 2. The Aux Amis group tends […]
Month: July 2009
Bridd, Kanda (ブリッド)
This place was under renovation for a while, and opened several weeks back. It’s pretty stylish, winey and Italian-looking (with a healthy side of roasted bird), which marks it as part of a new guard of Kanda places (c.f. Chailly, which, if truth be told, is the only other place I can think of in […]
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Tanuki/Ajiwai, Yurakucho (たぬき / 味わい,有楽町)
Party at the moon tower! Or the next best thing – Yurakucho yakitori with McNoonan! I also just read up on the real moontowers in Texas, if you’re interested. McNoonan is back from his Layoff World Tour – Hawaii, Boston, Disneyworld. This is a world tour like the World Series is a world series, but […]
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Jirokichi, Kanda (次郎吉)
Ooog. Big bowl of noodles, hot hot day, patient is comatose. Yahoo says it’s only 90/32 degrees, but I don’t believe it. I was out there. Same general area of Kanda today. Actually the same street, not the threatened pizza place around the corner. There’s always tomorrow. Or Monday. But I thought of a fun […]
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Muromachi Sunaba, Kanda (室町 砂場)
Kanda continues to delight this hardened area lunch-eater. Today I ventured even farther afield, getting to the limits of where I can walk and return in an hour, to visit this highly-regarded soba restaurant. If you’re wondering where I got the picture (and why it’s so sunny when that’s clearly not today), I yanked it […]
Kappabashi 4: Buy a Japanese Knife
Or: How to Buy a Japanese Knife In Tokyo’s Kappabashi Kitchen-ware Street. 1. Go to Kappabashi. 2. Go to Kama-Asa. It’s on the west side of the street, just before the halfway mark at Kappabashi crossing (there’s no sign other than the one on the traffic light). If you come the fun way, walking from […]
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Hongokutei, Kanda (本石亭)
It’s always Kanda. This could be a new pattern – have a bit of a stroll up there for lunch, try to go to a different place every day…oh, I’m already in that pattern. Let’s keep the streak going. Today even managed to stretch to accomodate a special request; lunch with Gita and Zone started […]
Kappabashi 3 – good stores
After much pfaffing, finally we get to the real and useful segment of this series of posts. Most people, I suspect, walk to Kappabashi from Tawaramachi on the Ginza line. This is most efficient, and there are probably even signs in the station like there are in Akiba for ‘Electric Town’. [My preferred alternative is […]
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Bistro Taruya, Kanda (樽や)
There is beauty all around us, if we only look for it. Last night, frustrated by Friday’s unsuccessful attempt to by big-person shoes, I went to another branch of the same store. Lo, despite being only a quarter the size and located in a distinctly down-at-the-heels location next to an unused section of Ueno Yamanote […]
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Tika, Kanda
As Sato chan says here, 最近神田ばっかりです。今日も神田。Recently it’s always Kanda. Today was Kanda too. It didn’t start out that way. I had my bike, so I thought I’d go somewhere farther afield. I headed toward Akiba, didn’t see anything I really wanted to eat, got lost, and mysteriously popped out in my current favorite neighborhood on […]