Yooooooshta. It’s official. I have now been to all of the good sake places in Tokyo. Think you know another? Nope. Not good. This is the last one. Boo-yah! Good, I’m glad we could all agree on that. Back to work. This one has been settling in and gathering rust just above Iroha Sushi, on […]
Author: Jon
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Devilcraft, Kanda
Devilquest!!! Nuts, I’ve been excited about writing that ever since I heard of Devilcraft from Woody several weeks ago. Now I find that Devilquest is just the Japanese name for Season of the Which, witch came out early this year in America. Well, Devilcraft’s opening has been anticipated for nearly as long, and they are […]
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No. 8 Bear Pond espresso, Shibuya
You’ll notice right away, because you’re clever people, that this sign doesn’t say ‘Bear Pond’. It says ‘ON THE CORNER’ (although if I’m giving you credit for observatorial powers, you prolly knew that awready too). This is because Shimo Kitazawa’s famous and fairly fabulous espresso maniacal genius at Bear Pond has a branch shop in […]
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La Rochelle, Minami Aoyama
The happy couple. Big Bird and I are discussing wedding venues as our Thursday-romantic-lunch series continues, and La Rochelle bills its chapel as Tokyo’s Most Romantic. Not many restaurants have chapels at all, of course, so it’s awfully convenient. Also convenient is being expected, and they were nice enough to thank us for our coming. […]
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Ta, Meguro (和創作 太)
Yooooooshta. It’s official. I have now been to all of the good sake places in Tokyo. Think you know another? Nope. Not good. This is the last one. Boo-yah! Good, I’m glad we could all agree on that. Back to work. Chalk up another one, Jimmy, another of Tokyo’s best i-zaka-ya’s gone under the bridge. […]
Hakata Ramen Center, Iidabashi (博多ラーメンセンター)
Meeting everyone’s favorite ‘Cock is a good opportunity to explore rare neighborhoods. I mean, Kudanshita is rare for me, and he doesn’t go out to lunch. For some reason Ikaruga wasn’t doing maze-soba today, and I decided to boycott out of protest. As if all the other people in line cared. And on a back […]
Taniyan ramen, Monzennakacho (深川谷やんラーメン本店)
This is on the outskirts of Monnaka, where Kasaibashi Dori bends down to meet Eitai Dori and it’s hard to cross the street if you’re walking to work – which I was, for several years. And the grease and stains on the yellow awning here kept calling me. Plenty of evenings I’d wobble by on […]
- Other treats
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Tetsu ramen, Shinagawa (つけめん 煮干そば TETSU 品川店)
Yeah, it was a pretty long night. After two izakayas, I just couldn’t resist the Shinagawa ramen street on the way back to the station. At least I was able to split a bowl with someone, which in theory helped with the calorie count. In practice, don’t be silly. Tetsu is a really popular place. […]
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Hyotan, Shinagawa (和風居酒屋 ひょうたん 品川店)
We pretty much struck out at the first place, not even completing our plan to wait there until our friends arrived but at least adding an amusing one to the file of losers. The next most likely-looking establishment was Hyotan, a few hundred meters down the road, and it turned out well. Certainly it had […]
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Kirakutei, Shinagawa (きらく亭)
After a leisurely recidivist lunch at l’Effervescence we gradually worked all the way down to Shinagawa to meet the Todds…who were late because their kitchen went up in flames. Definitely a worthwhile excuse. Kirakutei was the most obviously ‘sake’ of the izakayas along the north Shinagawa shopping street (a piece of the old Tokaido, in […]