Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, pork. Today felt like a vegetable day, then a meat day, and finally, by the time I left the office, I knew it was going to be a Fried Meat day. And since I somewhat disdain lesser fried meats like mince-katsu, that usually means tonkatsu (not that it’s that often). After wavering a little […]
Month: August 2009
- Other treats
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U-miya, Yaesu (う~みや)
Notable today is…the heat. I definitely feel like I’m melting after walking back from lunch. Still, I like the fact that lunch can include 20 or 30 minutes of walking. It’s good to burn off some lunch, and excellent practice should one be approaching a period in one’s life where one will need to walk […]
- izakaya
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Masuya, Tsukishima (ますや)
Yeah, this does indeed mean that I went back to roam around Tsukishima for a second night. I had seen Masuya on the previous evening and liked the seriously down-home look – brown country-style sliding door, extra supplies piled outside, lively sounds from within. And hey, what are Wednesdays for? Inside was indeed more homey […]
- Other treats
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The Lobby Lounge (Shangri La), Tokyo
A series of difficult or distressing meetings and emails? Too much fish food? Whatever the reason, I set out for a late lunch with a deep desire to eat a burger, and a mild disappointment that I was unable to think of a (new) place to do it. I had resolved to walk to Yaesu […]
- izakaya
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Sakura, Tsukishima (さくら)
Through a weird series of searches on the Google, I came upon this guy Nick’s post for a nice-looking restaurant specializing in mass quantities of off-cuts of good fish. And I gotta admit, I was seduced by his approach of posting only a shot of the street outside the restaurant and not its name or […]
- Kanda
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Gyosai Tozai, Kanda (魚采東西)
After a brief respite, Kanda lunches resumed today with this recommendation from Waka-pon, herself resuming in the office after a short trip to the country. I do love it when people recommend places, especially when they’re new to me, and even more when they help to fill in areas on the map that are somewhat […]
- Otemachi
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Asaji, Otemachi
haha, if you have to mess something up, do it right! Depending on your definitions, I may have eaten today at a place that I went to before – when it was in a different building and had a different menu and decor entirely. Well, I’ll chalk that up to experience. The basement-dwellers of the […]
- Ginza
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Sasahana, Ginza (ささ花)
Sasahana is up in the northeast corner of The Ginza, behind Printemps or Marronier or Velvia (as you like). After seeing the door, I realized that I walked by right around the same time last year, picked up a brochure, and never thought any more of it. Glad I went back! It’s not a particularly […]
- Kanda
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Izumoya, Kanda (いづもや)
Is this the eel life?Is this just fantasy?– Queen The strategy here was to save the best for last, and it seems to have worked out. This Izumoya appears to be unrelated to the (pretty good) one on the other side of the station. If you have only one meel to eet eel, (meaning you’re […]
- izakaya
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Kyusuke, Ningyocho (久助)
We interrupt this interminable series of posts on eel in Kanda to bring you something that is fundamentally different (at least until lunch!) – oden in Nigyocho. Yesterday feature a few trying times at the office, and I felt a deep need to eat out rather than salad (the verb) at home. Since I was […]