It’s tough to say no to lunch invitations from people you haven’t seen for a while. Especially when you have a lot of similar interests to that person. And even more so when they invite you to a place where you can join the “city’s growing population of urban hip…to take full advantage of the […]
Italian
Dandolo Dandolo, Nihonbashi
What’s a dandolo? I presume it’s something Italian, but I’m not going to look it up, because I find my reimaging funnier. It reminds of the word ‘dandle’ and a quick google of that yielded not the song I was thinking of, but some results for dolls with ‘rump actuated sound generators’. That’s a good […]
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Southern Dining, Yoga
After getting off the train in Sakura Shinmachi to look for a place to eat lunch, I have the following observation: the best thing to do is to start walking, and don’t stop until you get to Yoga. Yoga is a pleasant and leafy suburb in the (to me) Far West of Tokyo. Other people […]
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Mia Bocca, Minami Sunamachi
Sometimes it’s a hot summer day and you’re sitting on the couch and you’re sticking to it and all you can think is “Hey, it would be better to be at the mall than being here” and then you go to the mall. Since I finally started riding my bike again, I now know that […]
Pagliaccio, Marunouchi
This, I like to think, is the Olive Garden done for Tokyo. I know we already have Saizeriya and Popola Mama, but how else should you describe it when a chain specializing in Chinese restaurants (which I love, btw – tantanmen and gyoza) branches out into Italian? The difference, as you’ll be expecting, is that […]
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Piatto Suzuki, Azabu Juban
Sometimes events make you question your life and the path you’ve been on. This was not one of those events. It DID, however, make me question the basis for Michelin ratings. Coming on the heels of an adequate but unenlightening Chez Tomo experience, the equally one-starred Piatto Suzuki was a pleasant and tasty but ultimately […]
Isola Smeralda, Marunouchi (丸ビル5階)
Do you get these cravings sometimes? Maybe you’re pregnant so you understand (I made some pickles on Sunday. They’re getting pretty good now!). Sometimes I eat so little meat that I just get desperate for beef. Today it was…cranberry juice. I thought Meijiya was the place to go, but they didn’t have it. In any […]
Panino Giusto, Otemachi (Oazo)
Mucho Gusto! Wait, what does that mean? Panino Giusto is a little confusing too – an indoor/outdoor Italian restaurant specializing in hams? As with many of these things, the reality is a bit less interesting than the first paragraph.The big Oazo building has always felt a little under-baked to me. It’s big, but strangely empty […]
Delizioso Firenze, Marunouchi
The happy days are over, folks. As of this week, technology issues have removed my ability to post at will. I’ll continue to post relentlessly on indiscriminately-selected dining venues, but the updates may not make it live in the afternoons. And they may be shorter and even more typo-ridden.Today’s venue is anything but indiscriminately selected. […]
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Al Porto Don, Tokyo
Whoo, that was close my friends… 鈴時さん and I actually got all the way to the table of Suginoko before the sight of the menus reminded me that I had been there before. Oops. Fortunately this was the penultimate day of new-venue restrictions, and in the future such little slips won’t risk endangering mt, errr, […]