A-MAZ-ing. I was so struck dumb with disbelief that I couldn’t even write a post this afternoon, my friends. If this isn’t my new favorite restaurant, I don’t know what is. Pictures at 11, or once 花水 gets them out of her camera and over to me! Koala told me that she saw Ishikawa Tei […]
Kanda
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Champs de Soleil, Kanda
That’s right folks, 2 days in a row both see EOITwJ visiting the same Kanda street for Euro-food. This time it’s the highly-recommended Belgian outlet Champs de Soleil (but his friends call him ‘Champ’). Widely known among the underground, this is firmly on the list of ‘places to leave the office at 11:30 for’. After […]
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Trattoria Birichino, Kanda
My friends, I know I’ve maligned Kanda in the past. But today the sun is shining, the sky is clear, the weather is warm, and even the salarymen look a little less gray. With no intended sarcasm, it’s nice to be alive, employed in Tokyo and able to walk to Kanda for a late lunch. […]
Ikkon Buta, Kanda (一献豚、神田洞門)
Hitsumabushi is a unique dish of eel that’s famous in Nagoya (along with miso katsu!). ‘Famous in Nagoya’ is actually enough of a tipoff in my book that it’s not good, because (I’m prepared for backlash here) there’s really nothing interesting in Nagoya (please prove me wrong. I’ll visit any time.). The point of the […]
Mieux Dominus, Kanda
I’d like to use this intermediate post (between yesterday’s lunch and dinner) as a mechanism for discussing several dimensions that interest me within the socio-psychological framework of restaurant selection, including the relative importance assigned by the customer to aspects within the restaurant’s value dialogue and also the proper identification and typification of restaurants based on […]
Saikai, Otemachi (西海、神田)
Kanda is a confusing grid of streets north of Otemachi – not quite a restaurant desination, but every street seems to hold one or two surprises (OK, zero or one). (The confusion comes from the fact that it is, again, set off at a slight angle from Chuo-dori and the adjacent grid). Walking around today […]
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Bistro Columbus, Kanda
I’m not at all sure how I came to be in Kanda. No altered states were involved; I just started in Ochanu, disgruntled because I couldn’t find any of the things I wanted to look at in the guitar stores, thought of a place I wanted to go, found it full, kept walking to Akiba, […]