Yaaaaaaa-kumooooooo Yaaaaaaa-kumooooooo! OK, that’s out of the way. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find a video of a sweet potato truck playing the traditional song, without a white guy on the front babbling for 2 minutes about he’s exposing the soul of Japan. Even that video kinda sucks, so you knead to […]
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Yaro Ramen, Naka Meguro (野郎ラーメン)
Yaro there! Sometimes you need to embrace the unexpected and glory in the thrill of the idiotic! Especially when you walk 35 minutes to a shop that’s CLOSED ON TUESDAYS. So you end up eating Jiro-style ramen, although I wonder if Mr. Yaro gets mad when people say that. Then again, he’s rocking the yellow […]
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Kimihan ramen, Gotanda (江戸前煮干中華そば きみはん 五反田店)
Good, heavens, this is my first-ever post in Gotanda. I believe this was the second or third time I’ve ever been here, and the first one or two were during weekend daylight hours for a funeral. I feel like it required two trips but it’s been many years and things are hazy. It’s hazy in […]
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Purple Mountain Chinese Noodles, Tamachi (ラーメン むらさき山)
So here we are again, just me and Todd, passing an enjoyable hour getting away from it all for lunch. It’s a little funny that we’re both in Tokyo. It’s also little funny that ‘getting away from it all’ entails sweating while surrounded by shortish guys in suits, but that’s how we roll. Or stroll. […]
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Requinquer, Shiroganedai
Romance is not dead. Merely slumbering. It awakens every few years. Like cicadas. With a fortuitous alignment of stars and moon this month, Big Bird and I are both in Tokyo and had a few weeks to awaken the ‘romantic Thursday Lunch‘ tradition we established in 2011. Requinquer is pretty well-known and highly-regarded, so it’s […]
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Ryumon, Meguro (龍門 目黒本店)
Lunch with a colleague. I’m so used to picking where I go (sorry about that, friends and family) that it’s very confronting to have someone else say we’re going for Chinese. Because I would ordinarily NEVER GO FOR CHINESE. But this was cool, because it’s a Szechuan place. In fact it’s a classically smoky, yellowed […]
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Kei, Gakugei Daigaku (日本酒専門店 圭)
The Bird and I had a very quiet time at Ametsuchi. I was thinking even before we started there of going for a second place on this evening, and the atmosphere and first couple dishes confirmed it. By the end I was positively itchy to finish our hike from Meguro to Gakuegeidai and see about […]
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Ametsuchi, Gakugei Daigaku (あめつち)
Sometimes the whole universe is contained in a single sesame seed. This isn’t one of those times. But it’s cool. It’s all good, baby. You’d think that the name of this place was about the rain and the soil, and the produce that they produce, but if you looked a little more you might start […]
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Ishin Ramen, Meguro (麺や 維新)
Hmmm, how did we feel about this? An absurdly high score on ramendb and a Michelin Guide ‘Bib Gourmand’ mention probably had hopes a little high. I can’t quite point to why I was dissatisfied with it. I guess if you wanted to sum it up in a phrase, it was all that but without […]
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Misakiko Sushi, Meguro (海鮮三崎港目黒店)
So I had lunch here today. The less said, the better. I don’t even want to tell you about the advances in kaiten technology since I last went to a kaiten. We’re done here. Use this link and I’ll never talk to you again. 03(3442)3266 In other news, Meguro has lots of nightlife attractions.