This has turned out to be a digressive and self-indulgent post. Feel free to skip it. The curry and lunch sets here were OK. Pon and I fell prey to several traps today: one was leaving the office at the height of rush hour (12:15?). The other was trying to go to places that are popular. […]
Nihonbashi
Taikourou, Yaesu (泰興楼)
I’m starting to feel like a Shitamachi dining insider – this very good recommendation from Ricky is a gyoza specialist (with a broad menu) whose branch is Gyoza Bar Fei, in Kayabacho, tidily reversing my own dining trend between last night and today. I don’t really remember the gyoza at Fei, but I’ll remember the […]
Ohashi, Nihonbashi (小割烹おはし,COREDO)
Today marks the 10th month of no-repeat lunching (as well as the first day of the rest of your life!). Seriously, I don’t feel any shortage of places to go, and could easily finish out the year. Remains to be seen, I guess. Including some non-repeat dinners, the blog and map now must feature close […]
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 […]
Hide, Kyobashi (秀)
Nice weather and a ready bike always make me want to venture farther away from the office. I want to stress that it has very little to do with finding new places, which is not a challenge – there are still 3 places right in my building that I haven’t been to yet! Today I […]
Yong Jiang, Nihonbashi (甬江)
Nothing like a quick Chinese dinner on the way home. You know I’m not generally in favor of Chinese dinners, but I’m certainly in favor of broadened horizons. This place is on the 4th floor of Coredo, near Da Cibo and Quatorieme. It’s a Big Menu place – folds out to 6 pages, organized into […]
Ichino ichino ichi, Nihonbashi
Fire, water, wind…an elemental dining experience is on offer here at Ichinoichinoichi (can I abbreviate that as ‘hey you’ or ‘the place’?). I first saw this n a magazine and was mildly impressed by the outdoor terrace, big torches, and overall resort-y aspect…until I saw the address was Nihonbashi! ‘Where could that BE,’ I thought […]
Hazu Sushi, Mitsukoshimae (寿司筈、三越前)
Sometimes the most tenuous things link us together in this beautiful dance called life. For instance, today I ended up at a restaurant just because there was empty space on my map and I thought it would be fun to explore a little. If the food had been better I could talk about serendipity, but […]
Ten Shan Fei Wei, Nihonbashi (天香回味)
Before you ask, no, this is not the normal Nihonbashi shop. They opened another one right behind Coredo, on the little block to the left of Saint Pau where the Italian place is. And now that I’ve got that gratuitous “Gosh I’m so well informed and knowledgeable” posturing out of the way, on to the […]
Vin de Reve, Ginza 1-Chome (東)
Vin de Reve gets high marks in some quarters, and I’ve been itching to try it for some time. A casual Tuesday night proved too much to resist, so I cruised down to The Wine of Dreams for a quiet glass and some nourishment. When I say ‘cruised’, of course I mean ‘rode my pearl-white […]