Self described ‘Curry Izakaya’ looks like a converted ramen shop in the bowels of the east-side Kanda entertainment streets (if I haven’t made it clear enough, this is a weird neighborhood. Today we spotted a sword shop (definitely) and a soapland (maybe).), staffed by two sub-Continental folks speaking very dodgy Japanese. Their naan was as […]
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King of Curry, Otemachi （カレーの王様）
What would you think if, say, McCormick had a fast food chicken place? (I grant you this won’t resonate unless you’re American. McCormick is probably America’s biggest manufacturer of spices. At least it’s the only one I can name, and that usually means something. Like my memory is going.) And they played only 70’s rock? […]
Brasserie Ginza Lion, Otemachi
I know exactly what you’re thinking, so let me just deal with the issue now. You’re thinking “Wait, didn’t you already go to the Ginza Lion in the Otemachi Building basement on January 15th of this year?” Well, yes, but that doesn’t make this a repeat. They have two excitingly different locations for your dining pleasure […]
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Shahi Dawat, Kanda (シャヒ・ダワット)
I reached several resolutions over lunch today, my friends. The first is that I need to do something more interesting with these posts. Daily mediocre lunches are getting tiring for me, so I shudder to think what they’re like for you. I pledge that I will include at least one thing in every post that […]
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Ganesha, Kichijoji (ガネーシャカリー,ハーモニカ横丁)
I got laughed at a few times by different people for saying that going to Ganesha ‘made me feel like I was in Asia’. It bears explaining that everyone around me these days thinks Japan isn’t part of Asia, so when they use that word, they mean “All Asian countries except Japan”. There’s a lot […]
Bridd, Kanda (ブリッド)
This place was under renovation for a while, and opened several weeks back. It’s pretty stylish, winey and Italian-looking (with a healthy side of roasted bird), which marks it as part of a new guard of Kanda places (c.f. Chailly, which, if truth be told, is the only other place I can think of in […]
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Jirokichi, Kanda (次郎吉)
Ooog. Big bowl of noodles, hot hot day, patient is comatose. Yahoo says it’s only 90/32 degrees, but I don’t believe it. I was out there. Same general area of Kanda today. Actually the same street, not the threatened pizza place around the corner. There’s always tomorrow. Or Monday. But I thought of a fun […]
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Hongokutei, Kanda (本石亭)
It’s always Kanda. This could be a new pattern – have a bit of a stroll up there for lunch, try to go to a different place every day…oh, I’m already in that pattern. Let’s keep the streak going. Today even managed to stretch to accomodate a special request; lunch with Gita and Zone started […]
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Tika, Kanda
As Sato chan says here, 最近神田ばっかりです。今日も神田。Recently it’s always Kanda. Today was Kanda too. It didn’t start out that way. I had my bike, so I thought I’d go somewhere farther afield. I headed toward Akiba, didn’t see anything I really wanted to eat, got lost, and mysteriously popped out in my current favorite neighborhood on […]
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Dom Pierre Express Curry, Tokyo
A really odd set of connections on this one. Perignon is an expensive French restaurant in the northernmost wastes of Ginza (east side). They have a cake shop, in fact two if you count the small shop attached to their bakery, in the greater Monzennakacho area (and one in Aoyama). They also have a series […]