Asterix has been around for positively yonks. Even after going, I’m not sure if I’ve been before or not – it’s very possible that I went once, back in that halcyon month known as September 2004 when I had just moved to Japan and everything was fresh and exciting (except for work, which was a […]
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Vin Picoeur, Marunouchi
This is an odd position to be in – needing to recommend a restaurant from the Aux Amis chain. After a series of mediocre experiences at the Maru Biru glamour outlet and the Brasserie outlet, I don’t know what I was doing steering this work dinner toward yet another one (in the same building as the Brasserie, […]
Le Caprice, Roppongi
Let’s just skip over the convoluted path that led me to be drinking wine by myself in Roppongi on a Wednesday night pissing with rain. It’s not that interesting. What you should know is that Le Caprice is a pleasant little wine bar with decent food that’s trying hard, and I think they deserve your […]
La Chasse, Roppongi
If I were the type of guy who gave his posts descriptive titles that made it harder to search for them later, I’d be calling this one “At the Sign of the Skull”. I don’t know how they got permission for this, but La Chasse has taken a perfectly normal building deep in Roppongi-3 (the […]
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Figaro, Aoyama
Bit of a dissapointment here – looking for a cafe to kill some time between lunch, shopping and dinner, this seemed like the obvious choice in Aoyama (since, for example, the Henri Le Roux cafe was packed to the rafters, and has nothing to do with him beyond the name anyway). For those few readers […]
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C’est la Vie Nagano, Shinjuku
After planning to visit the Salon du Chocolate at Shinjuku Isetan, it seemed almost like a requirement to visit one of the many eastside Shinjuku bistros afterward. I cast about with my new favorite tool, Google Maps (seriously – just search for ‘bistro’ or whatever you want, within the neighborhood that you want, and you’ll […]
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Brasserie Bec, Yoyogi
There are a couple places I went years ago with my friend Naoko. They were all bistros – he was really good at picking bistros in outer suburbs – and after the visits I remained confused about where they were, ignorant as I was about geography in the year after I moved to Japan. In […]
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Bonheur Place, Nishi Eifuku
Eiiiiiii- fuku? Once in a great while, we venture out to odd places. And in this case not even the bustling metropolopolis of Eifuku, but the western suburb thereof. I needed to meet The Recruiter, had no particular objection to travel, and suggested we might as well meet 2 minutes from his house. He suggested […]
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Bistro Chocolat, Takasaki
Granted, it’s a bit weird to want to go for an overnight trip to a town that you’re pretty sure is going to be boring. I just wanted to get away for a day, and resolved to find someplace that was close but felt far, then wrestle all the interest from it that I could. […]
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Bordeaux Cellar, Omotesando
Proving yet again that there’s a whole world of restaurants out there in Tokyo that you haven’t heard of, and may even have walked by without noticing, or with ignoring, but would be pleasantly pleased with if you gave them a chance. Bordeaux cellar is hidden in plane site at the bottom of a nondescript […]