Kick. Ass. Food. Granted, EOITwJ doesn’t write about a lot of it, but here it is. Yonemura doesn’t show up convincingly on radar – you won’t find a lot of reviews other than these, and the web site is weak (I especially like how the first review mentions that it’s the writer’s first time to […]
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Igrek, Marunouchi
Man, the hits keep on coming. Today saw us down in Shin Maru, ticking off a place that’s crossed the radar any number of times but always come up short for either fullness (it gets that way at lunch) or theoretic cost performance (I dunno, the dinners just look a touch…hmmm.). For lunch, the quality […]
Bistro Ishikawa Tei, Kanda (ビストロ石川亭)
A-MAZ-ing. I was so struck dumb with disbelief that I couldn’t even write a post this afternoon, my friends. If this isn’t my new favorite restaurant, I don’t know what is. Pictures at 11, or once 花水 gets them out of her camera and over to me! Koala told me that she saw Ishikawa Tei […]
Provinage, Roppongi
While Provinage is a repeat visit for EOITwJ, I’d like to reassure any worried readers that we have not abandoned our borderline-pathological focus on eating somewhere new at every opportunity. It’s just that Provinage is so pleasant, as is the opportunity to have a special event like the first ‘Eating Out In Tokyo’ dinner. I […]
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Rabelais, Ebisu
I have a feeling people go to Rabelais for one pretty good reason – you can take your dog. The excitable fellow on the left was next to me all night and kept nipping at my heels. He wasn’t noisy, but he was quite agitated, especially when faced with a camera! The whole restaurant is […]
Mieux Dominus, Kanda
I’d like to use this intermediate post (between yesterday’s lunch and dinner) as a mechanism for discussing several dimensions that interest me within the socio-psychological framework of restaurant selection, including the relative importance assigned by the customer to aspects within the restaurant’s value dialogue and also the proper identification and typification of restaurants based on […]
Bastide de Crillon, Otemachi (オアゾ５階)
“Crillon’s Castle”, or words to that effect, is tucked high in a mountain aerie where only eagles and brave or foolhardy men tread. Errr, flap and alight. And peck. Or something. Actually it’s just on Oazo’s 5th floor next to Amalfi Moderna, and its tablecloths share the same slightly vomitous shade of green. I was […]
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Gare de Lyon, Hatchobori
You know that little area on Kajibashi Dori where you cross the bridge, go under the highway, and emerge from Takaracho into Hatchobori? Right, me either, in spite of going through there any time I took a taxi home from work (not that often). So I’ll forgive you for not seeing this place from the […]
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Aux Bacchanales, Kioicho (Asakusa)
I can hear more curmudgeonly members of the audience already: “You went where?!” Then again, I post some crappy lunch place every day recently, so perhaps this is just indicative of my declining standards? Aux Bacchanales is a small chain (7 shops across Japan) that strives for bistro-style perfection without trying too hard. On the […]
Le Remois, Marunouchi (Shin Maru 5th)
Update February 17, 2010: Lunch, 3 small courses at Y1800. Salad, good grilled white fish with veg, scoop of excellent ice cream with pistachio crumbs. Service as rough as before, a touch odd. =============================================================== January 22, 2009: Lest one think that EOITwJ has descended to reviewing nothing but smoky oyaji lunch spots, here’s some genuine […]