まず, readers should remember that the initial impetus for EOITwJ was actually to create a Roppongi Lunches site, as suggested by Shaklee long ago. Given the coverage of expensive restaurants in many quarters, sniffing out unusual lunches around the office seemed like a more worthwhile and socially-useful function (if blogging ever is). With the move […]
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Aji-Ichii, Otemachi (櫟)
Cleverly exploiting the advantages of Otemachi (The Underground City) to avoid pissing rain and the general malaise on the streets, Lin-ji and I migrated through the long, marbled halls of the Otemachi building, finding no open seats in restaurants, but only lines of hopeful patrons longer even than this sentence. We ended up confused and […]
S. Stefano, Otemachi (Marunouchi)
It’s official, I’m reformed. A new man. I used to eat nothing but French food. Now I eat nothing but washoku and Italian. Haven’t eaten French since last Wednesday. The first step was admitting that there’s a higher power than myself, and one of these days I’ll get around to seeing what the other 11 […]
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Bamboo, Otemachi
Ladies and gentlemen… I present to you after weeks of searching a pretty good restaurant in an Otemachi basement. And it’s Ethnic! Bamboo is in the long, long, forbiddingly long and crowded corridors of the Otemachi Building (creative names abound here). It’s in a strange place where the walls of the canyon press in a […]
Sushi Sei, Otemachi
You know how the Japanese alphabet (errr, syllabary) works, right? [Actually it’s already time for a digression. Do you know the story of the Cherokee syllabary? The Cherokee had no written language until the 1820’s, when one of them decided it would be cool to have, and made up a syllabary. Only recorded instance of […]
Rinya, Otemachi
Day 14: We continue to explore. Day by day, we hack away a few more meters of jungle with our machetes, but the work is slow and we frequently have to stop so the coolies can sharpen our blades. They seem to be growing restless due to the steady diet of teishoku and Indian, and […]
The Tandoor, Otemachi (Kanda)
Ishikawa Tei is a somewhat-famous French bistro in lower Kanda (just the other side of the river from Otemachi). It’s reputed to offer the #1 tastiest-valuest lunch in the area. That’s why there was still a line outside when I tried to go at 1:45 (lunch hours are 11 – 2). Around the corner, I […]
Amalfi Moderna, Otemachi (Oazo)
Ahhh, the limitless options continue. Here in week 3 of our new Otemachi Adventure, my friends, there’s not even a hint of revisiting the same places. Several readers have now accused us here at EOITwJ of excessive completism, but we continue to view it as our public service, nay, sacred mission, to provide information on […]
Wu Shang Lu, Otemachi (五香路)
If it quacks like a duck…I dunno. Things get really crowded around Otemachi at lunch time. I mean like “If you don’t leave the office at 11:30, lots of places will have lines of people waiting outside”-full. This is one of those places (quacks) but it didn’t really taste like duck (platypus?). Going with the […]
Kassen Ichiba, Otemachi (活洋市場の大手町２号店)
Having lunch with different friends is good, my friends, because they surprise you with destinations you wouldn’t otherwise think of. I’m in office-building-basement mode for lunch (unless Oazo is involved), but my friend Fred is decidedly not (not the one who was scared of still-twitching shrimp, but just as bald!). He’s now driving to work […]