This is the restaurant that crystallized my views on ‘old’ food. Interestingly, it was in a book of’great lunch places’ that I picked up, intending to use for weekend dinners. When I realized howclose it was to the office (i.e., “that place with the French flag that I keep seeing on the side street”)I went […]
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Pivoine, Monzennakacho (Botan)
Periodically I walk randomly around my neighborhood, especially the streets I don’t often go to, hoping that some new little place will have popped up. One night in February I was doing just that and, several blocks south of the minor shopping street that marks the southern boundary of town, saw a new place that […]
Aux Gourmands, Azabudai (Roppongi / Juban)
I had actually seen this place from the street one time after going to cosplay karaoke (a once-in-a-lifetime experience, as I like to say) but only realized that when I arrived for dinner. It’s slightly hard to find, down a small street and up some stairs, but worthwhile! The food was great, the atmosphere cozy, […]
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Au Gout du Jour, Ichigaya
eek2, you know you’ve been hitting the restaurant scene a bit when you go to a new place and recognize the staff from elsewhere. I guess it’s OK if it’s a different restaurant in the same group, but it’s still disconcerting. Especially when you’ve made what feels like a big hike across town to go […]
Labyrinthe, Marunouchi
This is one of those ‘slice of France’ places, in . It’s in Maru Biru, which I find very faceless and unappealing (perhaps it’s just the lower floors, since I haven’t ascended to the heights for any dining yet?), but when you step inside it’s dark and terribly, terribly Frenchy. I can say that with […]
Au Gout du Jour Nouvelle Ere, Marunouchi
[July 5, 2011: Amusingly, my farewell lunch with my boss today turns out to be three years to the day after I went here for the first time. I can’t even remember who I went with in 2008, so I’d have to guess she was un-amusing. What I said below is substantially correct based on […]
Viron, Marunouchi
I really can’t say enough good things about this place. In a dining career that has seen me revisit places only rarely, I’ve probably been to Viron’s Marunouchi restaurant in the Tokia building more than 10 times. It’s definitely overpriced for bistro food, but it’s so perfect in every other way that I can’t help […]
Brasserie Aux Amis, Marunouchi
Going for the bistro effect, and I guess succeeding, BAA is located at the south end of Marunouchi. Well beyond the Maru’s, Tokia and others, if you’re coming from Tokyo station you’ll probably walk past Viron to get there. You’ll be tempted to go in to Viron instead, and you should. I guess this succeeds […]