[Nov 29, 2010 It is with no great sniffling that I alert you to the closure of this establishment. It’s now a ‘salt ramen’ specialist.] Restaurant politics are interesting in Japan. There’s a concept of family trees, and places can proudly advertise the fact that they derived their expertise from a famous parent. Do they […]
Kanda
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Takaban, Awajicho
Tuesday night, I wanted…information. I figured if I got You drunk, then by hook or by crook I’d get some. He was already unstable as we were leaving the office – look how blurry he is here. We walked up to Takaban, which I visited some time ago alone, sans camera, while waiting for someone […]
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Mumbai Bar, Kanda
Recently the sky is so blue it’s almost comical. Anyway. Food. “This place has been on the radar for months.” Repetitious, no? But true. It’s on the main street from whence you turn to get to all the places in the north of Kanda that are featured here daily. The bright exterior is a cut […]
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Zemaitis Museum, Kanda
Note, no actual food content here. Lots of guitars though. Tony Zemaitis was a British guitar builder who may have been the first to throw a slab of metal on the front of a guitar (cf my friend Chris Larsen and Girl Grand Guitars for more modern and wacky stuff!). He retired in 2000 and […]
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Wagura ramen, Kanda (わ蔵)
Frankly, being in a new neighborhood is confusing these days. I’ve spent so much time wandering a few blocks of Kanda that it feels like home, and it’s disconcerting to visit streets that have the same faceless similarity of most of Tokyo…but aren’t the same. And that’s cool! I was standing on a corner, dithering […]
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Daitetsu, Kanda (大鉄)
Japan’s construction philosophy is often described as ‘scrap and build’. You’d think that the narrow buildings and cramped neighborhoods would impede construction, but no…it just means they find ways to be careful. Here, a building is being torn out from between others, and a pint-sized backhoe is perched atop the rubble. But that’s not particularly […]
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Sanshuya, Kanda ( 大衆割烹 三州屋)
Things are so hot in Tokyo at the moment that whole sections of street keep spontaneously combusting, forcing the fire department to work overtime racing to conflagrations for liquid refreshment. But it’s always cool as an uri up in Kanda, where this branch of the Sanshuya chain is dishing out tasty dishes. Hard to say […]
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Yatsudeya, Kanda (八ッ手屋)
There’s a lot of pleasure in visiting old places. The danger is that the theme-park attraction of them is often not met by anything resembling food, Alternatively, you can be forcibly reminded that the theme park is in your head, and the people who own and run these places aren’t doing it to be retro […]
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Miharado, Kanda (三原堂)
After the disappointing cold noodles at the Big Dragon (and don’t get excited by the name, just avoid it), I needed something else to eat. Preacher and I happened by this place and I remember liking the look of it before. It’s a normal sweets shop, so you can get the usual assortment of baked […]
Dairyu, Kanda (大龍)
The heat, my friends, makes one do stupid things. I keep having this problem where I get headaches from exercise, mainly from cycling – after 80 or 90 minutes, I start getting a headache that lasts all day. It feels like dehydration, but I drank gallons of water last time and it still didn’t work. […]