Le Jardin, Yoga

Setagaya Art Museum is good for a visit. It’s a healthy walk away from Yoga, and that healthy walk, if done properly on the smaller streets and not on the 6-lane monsters that cut through the area, will be almost unconscionably pleasant. It will include cobbled streets with architectural details at every corner, water features, […]

Bistro Bonnes Mares, Kanda

How do people decide they’ve had enough – learned enough, pushed enough, grown enough – and it’s time to settle in?Moreover, is it wrong to do this? Especially if you’re doing your thing better than most people could?And is it indicative of a deeper pathology that I read restaurant reviews while eating lunch? (This has […]

Chez Tomo, Shirogane

Ahhh, it’s been simply ages that I’ve been thinking of going to this place. I suppose I had heard of it, but then I ran across it one night while walking randomly around after work (when you worked at the one of 2008’s most spectacular failures, you’ve got plenty to walk and think about). And […]

Arossa, Ginza (Velvia 8)

Central Otago. What a great place. Some of my favorite people have been Central Otagans. And when I think of it, I’m inescapably reminded of crashing Jake and Kristen’s honeymoon in Queenstown, cruising around on quad bikes in the hills outside town, and stopping off at the Cardrona Hotel for beers on the way home. […]

Argo, Hanzomon

EOITwJ was embarrassed. All set to go to a very nice-looking French restaurant in the decidedly odd neighborhood of Hanzomon (or Kojimachi, more picturesquely and food-related-ly) we…were late and forgot our cameras. Thus all visual correspondence herein is courtesy of GT’s keitai; excuse our shocking omission. It’s even worse because this was very lovely food […]