You know Sant Pau, right? If you don’t know that it’s a Spanish 3-star restaurant, and one of the few 3-stars worldwide headed by a female chef, then you probably know it as the fancy place nestled in behind Nihonbashi Coredo. As Volleyball and I confirmed today on our special “Holy Cow We Survived a […]
Month: December 2009
- Other treats
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RC Tavern, Tokyo
My locational skills are a bit off. I always assumed Tokyo Station was in Tokyo, but this place is practically in the station, and its address is Marunouchi. Ah well. If I say ‘Tokyo’, I think you know I mean ‘really close to the station’. That’s why we’re friends, right? The RC stands for Rose […]
Brasserie Yoshi, Ginza
Ginza is a hard neighborhood for the casual diner or eager bar hopper who’s not on an expense account. It’s easy to wander into a place (well, easy if you’re not scared to see what’s behind Door Number 3) and find that they have a solid seating charge plus healthy drink and service fees. Still, […]
- Ginza
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Gustoso, Ginza
I’ve always had a fear of the mid-priced places on the main streets of Ginza, the ones with the big, colorful signs at street level. That’s why I never went to one until now – I expected them to be adequate but dull and overpriced for the quality level. Now I’ve been to one, but […]
- izakaya
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Koyu, Nezu (呼友)
This being part two of my Nezu Night-time Tour with Woodie, we wandered only a block or two from Jinpachi before seeing this place. He recognized it as appearing in one of his vast library of Tokyo drinking spot-related books (seriously), and I thought it looked very promising, if a bit modern. It seems they’ve […]
- izakaya
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Nezu no Jinpachi, Nezu (根津のじん八)
Nezu is a veritable wonderland for the intrepid izakaya explorer (a class in which I would like to count myself a junior member; guys like this are longstanding pros). It’s not packed with options, but plenty of nice things are spread sparsely over the alleys east of Shinobazu Dori, stretching up into Sendagi and over […]
- Kanda
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Nocchi, Kanda
[This place has been closed for a while, but there wasn’t any reason to go in the first place. As of Feb ’11, the new noodle shop in their space is pretty good.] The one thing that comes through as a consistent theme to me after nearly 12 months of visiting a different restaurant near […]
Ander, Marunouchi (新丸７回)
Have I mentioned how I go to a different place every day for lunch? No? I haven’t mentioned it today? Good. Always nice to have an opportunity to show how clever one is. Today saw a relatively broad chast of charachters heading down to Chin Maru, where my enthusiasm is newly rekindled by the remembrance of […]
Torajiro Soba, Monzennakacho (寅次郎)
Just as another thing to try on the way to TCAT and the airport bus, Jake and I stopped by this newish soba place. It was late in the afternoon, so there was no one there, and in fact the master took some time to arrive at the counter – napping? He was up for […]
- izakaya
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Amenbo, Ogikubo (あ麺ぼ)
Well, the first review on Tabelog pretty much nails this place with the description ‘Tons of fish, cheap’. We just stopped in Ogikubo on the way home from Takao san as a way to kill some time before meeting others for dinner. It’s not as much fun as Sancha, let alone Shimokita or Kichijoji, so […]