Probably more than a year has gone by since I started thinking that Bistro Lugdunum looked like the best bistro in Kagurazaka – which any French person in Tokyo will tell you is saying something. Since the French School is nearby, various French things have congregated there for years, and there’s a higher concentration of […]
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Seigetsu, Kagurazaka (霽月)
Things wound down naturally as the crew worked through the sake menu at Shutoan. After 2 hours we started thinking our business was pretty near complete, and we were itching to visit another establishment. Poshand put in a quick call to Seigetsu, in nearby Kagurazaka – previously recommended by Journey and also pre-confirmed as being […]
Hana Modern, Kagurazaka (華もだん)
Japanese people, damn your language. I was moping around the counter at this place, thinking how crappy it was that I couldn’t understand what ‘modan’ meant. Written in hiragana, I assumed it was a regional word or something. Then I noticed it was written ‘modern’ on their business card, and I said “damn your language”. […]
Tamanegiya, Kagurazaka (たまねぎや)
Friday night…errr, Wednesday night before the Thursday holiday…saw me walking around Kagurazaka, freezing my nuggets off, in search of sake. It’s been 2 weeks since I last brought you any sake exploration (the last was Ikebukuro’s Umibatake, which I still remember fondly) – a short low-consumption period to recharge. Feeling better now, thank you. Having […]
La Scene, Kagurazaka
Kagurazaka is famous for French stuff. It’s funny, but there really ARE a ton of little French (and Italian) places lurking around. It’s not that they’re clustered in one place; this one, which appeared in a Hanako article, is actually a bit north of what you may think of as the ‘main drag’ (Waseda Dori), […]
Maison de la Bourgogne, Kagurazaka
Kagurazaka is a neighborhood of side streets. If you stay on the main street, you’ll think it’s mildly charming but a bit gaudy and a bit ruined by development. Chain restaurants, cheap bars and down-market shops abound. The particular maison in question today is down towards the Iidabashi end of Kagurazaka (for those Chinese-speaking people […]
Onodera, Kagurazaka
Given that we’ve already posted a glowing review on Onodera from our first visit, we shan’t spend too much time rehashing. In fact, we feel a little bad violating our rule about not posting multiple times on one restaurant, but this place is so good we just gotta do it…looking back, I see that a […]
Menosou, Kagurazaka (目乃想)
Kagurazaka is a little…bewitching. It’s the small, dark alleys, packed with the promise of exclusive Japanese-style dining where you need an introduction and a 3rd-generation fortune to get in. For the rest of us, there are plenty of interesting places tucked away off the main street (both behind and above). You just have to work […]
Hap, Kagurazaka
After being a bit disappointed with the Artist Cafe, I wanted to redeem the evening by walking around somewhere nice – and thought that Kagurazaka was close. Y’know, it’s hard to find stuff there when walking around at random. Hap, I think I had seen before on a random expedition. It’s kinda neat and modern-looking […]
Onodera, Kagurazaka (おの寺)
Welcome back to another exhaustive installment of Eating Out In Tokyo. My camera was on fine form last night, so you can get a good idea of the food at the second highly-recommended washoku place I visited this weekend. Onodera is hidden in plain sight, on the fourth floor of a small building in the […]