Woo hoo, weekend away. It’s been some time, eh? Atami, at the head of the Izu penninsula, is called the ‘Monaco of Japan’. Really, my colleague tried to convince me of this. I laughed at the time, then I went there…and I still think it’s funny. Sure there are dramatic hills falling down to a […]
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Ginza de Wine, Ginza (銀座でワイン)
Bring Your Own wine is a great concept, and one of the main things I miss about my years in Australia (really!). In Oz, it was usually $0-5 to bring a bottle in, which is nothing compared to the 100% markup restaurants usually impose (a problem unless you’re drinking 2-buck-Chuck). In case you didn’t know, […]
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Pork Noodle Research Center Shan, Kanda (豚麺研究所 香)
Update 11/2010: Sorry, this is closed and there’s a new place in the space that I hear is crappy. You know how there are a lot of security guards everywhere in Japan? Well, maybe not compared to America, but it seems like a lot. The difference is that in Japan they’re so often little old […]
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Fuji, Morishita (藤,森下)
Every day I sink a little deeper into Fukagawa. Which is a shame, because Fukagawa is slipping away a little every day. I hate it when travel journalists strike a maudlin tone about this sort of thing, because the single biggest factor in the slipping-away of Fukagawa’s heritage was almost certainly extensive firebombing in WWII, but […]
Viron, Marunouchi
Viron probably holds the title of ‘most visited restaurant in Tokyo’ for me. Weird, isn’t it? You can tell how much I like it because, when I started this blog, before I started writing about the restaurants that I was visiting, I wrote about a few things that were lodged in my memory, and Viron […]
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Ajiden ramen, Kanda （味伝）
Guessing on the name here, but I think it:s right. This place opened recently (they still have orchids on the stairwell landing) and it seemed like worthwhile try today when Ponkan and I went out in light rain for an early lunch. It was OK, but not up to the standard of the recommended places […]
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Manaita, Kanda (まないた)
My colleague Waddap was in town from London, and since I’ve still never been to London this is the only chance we get to socialize. Here we are leaving the office. I like to call this ‘Still Life With Waddap’ except that he’s walking. I was keen to get back to Manaita after the lovely […]
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Oedo, Kanda (大江戸)
Once in a while my fixation on the word ‘kappou’ gets me into trouble with a place that’s more expensive than I’d like it to be. On the other hand, eel is an inherently expensive item (whoulda thought?), so putting the two together isn’t a recipe for success, cost performance-wise. This place has nice atmosphere […]
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Krung Siam, Roppongi
Fooo, a long day to cap a long weekend; this one ended with some of the best Thai food I’ve had in Tokyo. I guess it’s not such a surprise when the staff is all Thai, the weather is humid and sticky, and the table is outside. Despite only one visit, this seems like a […]
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Citrus, Aoyama
Happy hour is something I’ve never been aware of in Japan, but the Peafowl are adept at finding them. In this case we were walking randomly through Aoyama and same the sign for Citrus. There’s nothing particular in the way of food at happy-hour time (including a distinct lack of mixed nuts; we had to […]