Agave, Roppongi

Ohhh, it’s hard to remember what to write about Agave. That’s partly because it was almost a week ago, and partly because, well…it’s a tequila bar. What does one write in a review of a tequila bar except “Oh, my head?” No, I know that these days tequila is all about ‘sipping’, and in fact […]

Kyouzen, Roppongi (京善)

Kind of an interesting place, this. There aren’t a lot of lunch places where you can feel like you’ve stepped out of Roppongi and into an altogether more civilized and Japanese environment (Umaya comes to mind, R.I.P.). I suppose for foreigners this means Kyoto style, or at least ‘traditional’ and ‘Japanese’ and ‘the kind of […]

Matagi, Nishi Azabu

I feel like this review should be written in grunts, sort of like the noises that would be made by a wild boar as he snuffles through the undergrowth just before being blown away by a shotgun wielded by one of Matagi’s ‘sourcers’. While new to me, coming through the pages of a back-issue of […]