Well, we didn’t have that much luck at Kyowa, but it was early. Walking around left us in from of Fuki, which I had previously noticed as having some of that thar sakay stuff. Initially we were impressed by the seriousness of the master, who was sitting near the cash register working on a laptop. […]
Author: Jon
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Kyowa, Ningyocho (活魚料理 京和)
Marketing, my friends, is a bitch. I saw this place a bunch of times and was attracted to the modest exterior and the legend “Tai-shu Kappo”, which I interpret to mean “Classy cookin’ for reg’lar folks”. Things were a little too regular when someone and I got in, to wit just one other table eating […]
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Kishidaya, Tsukishima (岸田屋)
Kishidaya. I live near here. It’s famous. Why did it take me 7 years to get there? Easy. They open at 5. It’s popular. I mean, get-there-before-they-open popular. Who has time to do that? Who doesn’t work on weekdays? These guys, hahahahahaha. In fact, we tried to go to another place nearby that’s almost as […]
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Ooki, Asakusa (大木洋食店)
I rolled around for hours in the heat, looking at and passing by lunch options one after another. Down a wide but empty street, Ooki stood out. Mostly by the way it retreated into the scenery, humbly nestling behind the tree. It was already 1:30, and there was no sign of life inside except a […]
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Chibakiya ramen, Kasai ()
Aaaaaah, relaxing bike rides to the countryside for ramen. You know what really puts the icing on that cake? Making sure the store is open first. I arrived in North Kasai to find that the ‘closed on Tuesdays’ policy at my target shop doesn’t apply on the occasional Monday in summer. After a brief interlude […]
TGI Friday’s, Shinagawa
I’ve been accused of a willingness to blog anything. That’s pretty true, although I’ve never stooped to the level implied by the original comment by writing about a convenience store. This is close… So we were hanging out with Todd and his family, and after we got tired of eating whipped cream-jalapeno chips and drinking […]
Ohara et CIE
Many years ago I visited the confusingly Irish/Japanese-named Ohara (and who knows what the CIA means either?) as one of the very last lunches I ever ate as a Roppongi-based worker. Reading that review gives me more confidence in my much-derided one-visit policy – it was mainly the same when we went for dinner, although […]
Yoshiki Sushi, Nihonbashi
Yoooooosh (iki). As of today, I no longer lunch in Greater Otemachi. I trust that the 453 entries for Otemachi, Marunouchi, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, and Kanda will tide you over if you need ideas for lunch or dinner. But for now, let’s party! Several weeks ago, Shaft and I entered into a long process of negotiation that […]
Coulis, Shintomi
There are a few places in Tokyo that I believe in enough to go back to, and a very few that I feel compelled to post more than once about. Coulis is one of them. Y1800 for these four courses? Seriously? How do they stay in business? Feeding off the souls of the dead restaurants […]
Gyoro-Gyoro, Nihonbashi (魚櫓魚櫓)
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. I mean, it’s pretty obvious that they’ve got something going on; with a head store elsewhere (Shibooya, […]