What’s that you say? EOITwJ never goes to Chinese? You’re right, it’s an awfully rare occurrence. Why is that? Well…it’s a bit samey, and they never have beef with broccoli. We have to have our American-style Chinese food, don’t we? No, seriously, we just don’t enjoy Chinese food that much. We don’t know what it […]
Monzennakacho
Fukagawa Tei, Monzennakacho (深川亭)
This little place popped up a while ago, perhaps as much as a year, and it looked like the sort of simple izakaya that would deliver some fresh and tasty food. I put off going for a long time because it doesn’t look that exciting, but when I was feeling tired and just needed to […]
Wine Bar Kay, Monzennakacho
I know what you’re thinking – it’s really quite uncanny what a great place Monzennakacho is! I can’t understand why it’s not a regular stop on the circuit for visiting foreign dignitaries and food writers. Not only is there great sushi and kappou, there’s good French and Italian, and some award-winning bars. Kay is not […]
Oteru, Monzennakacho (お照)
The personal email issues are almost solved, my friends. The IT team is starting to get things under control. After Ojisan and I left Hanabishi, I thougt I was going peacefully home. It was not to be, as he had his claws into me and insisted that I join him at another geisha-run place. This […]
Hanabishi, Monzennakacho (花菱)
EOITwJ is not dead, my friends, merely having computing problems. Thanks for your kind wishes. There is now an unfortunately huge backlog of eating out ‘experiences’ to get through, from Tuesday night, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Argh. Hanabishi turned out to be more of a history lesson than a culinary extravaganza, but since it […]
Tanta Papatoria, Monzennakacho
Many’s the time I’ve been to Papatoria, my friends, many’s the time. Usually I’ve gone to the main restaurant in Tomioka 1 as opposed to this second store in Monzennakacho 1. Some would say it’s a fine point to differentiate between similar restaurants that are only separated by 3 minutes walk, and some would say […]
Tsushima, Monzennakacho (つしま)
Wow, everything that’s great about Japanese dining, under one roof! I was positively euphoric after this dinner – so fresh, so delicious, seasonal, well-cooked, nicely presented, reasonably-priced…it’s a mystery to me why this Tsushima isn’t profiled in the usual places or rated more highly. It’s also a mystery why I didn’t visit for the first […]
Tsukudaya, Monzennakacho (寿司割烹佃屋)
OK, so it was probably a mistake to go out for a little dinner, alone, two days after the new year. But it was Friday night, I didn’t feel like sitting around home any more, and plenty of places were open. Despite the length of time I’ve lived in Monnaka, there are still plenty of […]
Didean, Monzennakacho
Well, it was a strange idea to go for healthy ethnic food on New Year’s Eve (lunch). Didean moved some time ago, froma dead-zone location several blocks back from Eitai Dori and into the more glamorous environs of the main approach street to the Fukagawa temple. I thought it was a ‘healthy cafe’, but inside […]
Shimada, Monzennakacho (しまだ)
For some reason I had it in my head that this was a good and recommended soba place. I’m pretty sure this was because of the hand-made aspect – they have a room in the front window where they make the soba, and even when I was there Jiji was up there rollin’ and foldin’. […]