EOITwJ has a somewhat puzzling luv for tattoos, big orange guitars, and…tiki bars. We think it started on our birthday (that may be an excessive use of royal plural. More like rural plural or something.) in 2002, when Suz showed up unannounced at a fancy dinner and made us go to Trader Vic’s (which I […]
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Dagashi Bar, Suitengu (水天宮駄菓子バー)
You’re going to have to come down-market with me here, and indulge in a bout of nostalgia. I can’t tell whose nostalgia it is though, and I feel weird making it mine. I’ve been looking at stuff in Japan for long enough now that I understand which things are supposed to make someone feel nostalgic […]
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Maruume, Futakotamagawa
Apparently a 7th-floor-of-Takashimaya branch of a bar down at street level elsewhere in Nikotama. Small and quiet, dim lighting with a red tint, nice selection of frosted and cut glasses behind the bar, reasonable prices and charges. A good place to get lost for a while, albeit incongruously facing a courtyard with a big water […]
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B-Bar, Roppongi
We interrupt our regular programming to bring you a burst of vitriol… I knew how much the drinks cost before I went here. I knew what the charge was. But as I watched the bartender pour flat champagne into my glass and add blue food coloring, all I could think was “I’m being screwed.” Yes, […]
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Agave, Roppongi
Ohhh, it’s hard to remember what to write about Agave. That’s partly because it was almost a week ago, and partly because, well…it’s a tequila bar. What does one write in a review of a tequila bar except “Oh, my head?” No, I know that these days tequila is all about ‘sipping’, and in fact […]
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Houblon, Ginza
Boyz, this is it. You think you’ve been to a Belgian beer bar in Tokyo? If it wasn’t Houblon, you haven’t. They have the atmosphere, they have the food, and they have a menu big enough to break the camel’s back, with 300 types of beer (some of which are even in stock!). There’s a […]
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Shochu House Ando (あんど), Ginza
How do people find places like this? Ando is tucked away in a medium-size Ginza side-street building that’s otherwise crammed to the gills with hostess clubs. In fact, judging from the size, layout, and tacky, tacky furniture…there’s no way it was not previously a hostess club. They stay open late, have only young, male staff, […]
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Bar Fal, Ginza
Once in a while people ask if I know a good bar. I always say yes, and describe Fal to them. They never go. Maybe I smell bad? I don’t know what you like in a bar, but here’s what does it for me: Dark, woody, quiet. Jazz, probably. A wide selection of drinks in different […]