Mmmmmmmm, Yoshoku. Some people love this stuff. I don’t quite see the attraction, and today’s pre-made bento did little to dispel my preconceptions. I should really go somewhere famous to try serious yoshoku. Kamiya might be kinda famous. Anyone else know it? This branch in Yurakucho near the corner of Hibiya and Harumi (from the […]
Otemachi
Lion D’Or Beer Cafe, Otemachi
Have I mentioned how hard it is to find a vegetarian counter lunch place in Otemachi these days? It’s hard. The basement of the Otemachi Building is massive. At a guess I’d say there are 50 restaurants down there, and at 12:00 sharp, when I went today, many of them were packed. A few places […]
Ganesha, Otemachi
“I just saw Slumdog Millionaire and boy am I hungry!” ==> Indian lunch.OK, that wasn’t really how it went, but the movie was mentioned at lunch (again, after its strong performance at Golden Globes). Ganesha is in fact the Indian restaurant in the basement of the JA building where I knew the waitress from another […]
Gokumen, Otemachi (新浪漫亭)
Late lunch, limited time…I still don’t want to let a day go by without trying something new. After all, I’ll probably only work in Otemachi for another…oh, 300 business days (pleasant thought!) so I have to make the most of it. There’s a row of restaurants under the Yamanote sen / Chuo Honsen tracks just […]
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Asaji, Otemachi
Ohhhhhh, now we move deep, deep into depressing territory. Descend to the basement. Low ceilings. Sad little places cranking out teishoku, curry and Chinese. Smoke-yellowed walls and customers. You know you’re in Japan. This was my first visit to the basement of the JA Building, and one might reasonably expect it to be exactly this […]
The Orchid, Otemachi (Oazo)
Day 2. There are a decent number of big buildings around. It’s a little too far to walk to Maru and Shin Maru, but there’s that Sankei building where we went yesterday, this First Square place, and Oazo, among others. This may have been my first time in Oazo – it was trying to do […]
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Manhattan Bleu, Otemachi
Getting the “we lunch in Otemachi now” derby off with a resounding…thud, it’s a Y1000 buffet in the basement of the Sankei building (which also has that bistro French place and casual Italian place that both look nice for after work!). Buffet is buffet – quality is low and you always overeat. At least we […]
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Zenmaru, Otemachi (膳丸)
For the inaugural lunch of our Otemachi encroachment, we were shepherded into the basement of the oddly-named ‘First Square’ building and given a choice of two teishoku places (since I had ventured that I wanted to eat teishoku, being in the center of Japanese business and all that). Maruzen looked better, and turned out to […]