Our introduction to Torahachi was momentarily a bit of a worry – the overhead speakers were playing a 70’s power pop song that I like but couldn’t identify. Really an embarassment. After that it was more comprehensible, if less exciting, as we cycled through late-70’s favorites across a number of genres. The Eagles treated us […]
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Budoya, Kanda (葡萄舎,鍛冶町)
EOITwJ doesn’t mean to harsh your mellow if you’re having a bad day, but we’re having some very good days here. It may be mostly the weather that’s suffusing us with contentment and feelings of well-being, and to that we say, “shine on!” No meditation or psychotics are involved （最高~~!). Nor aura therapy. Ahhhh, the […]
Mammoth Curry, Akihabara
Sure, I have a weakness for bright-yellow-themed curry restaurants. And I definitely have a weakness for curry when I had a long night eating tempura and then had to work the next day. So when I finished work of a Saturday and traipsed up to Akiba mid-afternoon, all that was on my mind was supplementing […]
Day Nite, Otemachi
There are always those days when it’s rainy and cold, and no one feels like going out, and you just want to stay in the building. Today wasn’t one of those days, so I’m not sure why we stayed in the building, but I got to have my first experience with the wacky cafeteria-style place […]
Lion D’Or Beer Cafe, Otemachi
Have I mentioned how hard it is to find a vegetarian counter lunch place in Otemachi these days? It’s hard. The basement of the Otemachi Building is massive. At a guess I’d say there are 50 restaurants down there, and at 12:00 sharp, when I went today, many of them were packed. A few places […]
Didean, Monzennakacho
Well, it was a strange idea to go for healthy ethnic food on New Year’s Eve (lunch). Didean moved some time ago, froma dead-zone location several blocks back from Eitai Dori and into the more glamorous environs of the main approach street to the Fukagawa temple. I thought it was a ‘healthy cafe’, but inside […]
Tsubakiya, Roppongi
Visit Tsubakiya for a guaranteed shot of nostalgia that will take you straight back to the Taisho years (if you were alive and living in Japan, of which I was neither). Pleasingly, this place manages to pull off the requisite ambiance without feeling as if it hasn’t been remodeled since Taisho – which is a […]
Go-Go Curry, lots of places
I wandered into the one in Ochanomizu soon after it opened and fell in love. The curry wasn’t bad either. The quirkiness of the concept (gorillas! funny names! Y2500 signature curry!) cracked me up, and then the dark, thick curry kept me happy. I haven’t been back, but that’s more a recognition of the fact […]