Someone came up with the idea that we needed Roman-style pizza after our slightly life-changing visit to Il Tamburello. Have you noticed, gentle reader, that food is the last thing I should need at this point, and yet also the first thing on my mind? By which I mean, who’s to say no? There are […]
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La Balance, Ginza (ラ・バランス銀座)
Despite their booming popularity in Japan, I still think macarons are a great thing. The king of pastry, if you will. There aren’t a lot of places that make good ones – you often see them wrapped individually in plastic, and that just can’t be a positive sign. Still, I’m always willing to try a […]
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Cafe de l’Ambre, Ginza (カフェ・ド・ランブル)
Coffee only. Only coffee. While things like that ordinarily make me want to request a danish on the side, maybe a sugar cookie, I feel a lot of respect for this place and have always wanted to go. It’s just down the street from my Ginza bar of choice, Fal, so it’s weird that it […]
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Sasahana, Ginza (ささ花)
There are a few places in Tokyo that I believe in enough to go back to, and a very few that I feel compelled to post more than once about. Sasahana is one of them. The attraction here is that you get the full-on Ginza kappo treatment for less money than you’d expect. In the […]
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Hantoco Cafe, Shintomi (ハントコcafe)
Wooden and I just wandered around a bit on the way to the station from Rusai. That was a pretty unsatisfying meal, and this little place looked awfulllly inviting as we strolled past. I’d seen it before, of course, but never noticed that it had a ‘sake ball’ outside, and we were doubly sold. We […]
Yoshioka, Kyobashi (地酒屋 よしおか)
Yooooooshta. It’s official. I have now been to all of the good sake places in Tokyo. Think you know another? Nope. Not good. This is the last one. Boo-yah! Well good, I’m glad we could all agree on that. And how could you not agree that it’s a good place? Look at that banner! It’s […]
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Karaku sushi, Ginza (鮨 からく)
It was raining this morning, which is an appropriately depressing way to come back to work after a great weekend in Kyoto, and it popped into my head that rainy days are good to pop down to Ginza for lunch. This isn’t strictly true, and it wasn’t even raining by the time I got there, […]
Towers Beer Bar, Tokyo
How many times have I walked by Towers? A dozen, maybe more. Most people wouldn’t walk from the office to Ginza, but it’s only 20-30 minutes depending on what part of Ginza, and I always do it. Towers is right in the middle, and I thought it looked cool even before my friends mentioned this […]
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Konokara, Ginza ( こなから 銀座店)
As soon as I saw the hyotan, I said “Aw hell, it’s Konakara.” Not that this was a bad thing; there are only a few branches, and in fact the one I’ve been to (Shin Maru) is a branch as well, while the original store is small and popular – full when I’ve called, enforced […]
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Dedesuke, Ginza (でですけ)
Typhoon? Nuts to that. Lunch time. I was so keen to do something different that I took the train to Ginza. Where it was raining. Hard. Dedesuke is not necessarily a promising place – if you look over the door, you’ll see the first word is hormone…and you should know that that word means nothing […]