It’s a measure of both the popularity and, I like to think, the inferiority of sushi in foreign countries. Waddap asked if we could go to a ‘sushi-type place’ today on his last day of visiting from London, and was suitably amazed by Eiki. Nothing wrong with that – it was one of the best sushi […]
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Sato, Tama Plaza (佐藤)
Part 2 of what we should expect to be a long series of posts on the greater Kawasaki area’s greater dining options, also known as Eating Outside Tokyo With Someone (whaddya think of that, Little Lord Pottleroy?). Sato looked like the best thing on Tabelog, and I stand by the idea that it’s probably the […]
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Iroha Sushi, Kanda (いろは鮨)
This was sort of a standout lunch – not really recommended, just all manner of surprises. Everyone has walked by the place since it’s right in the middle of the Kanda west-side shotengai. I’ve avoided it for years now because it looked like it would be cheap and tired. OMG, I’ve worked in Otemachi for yearS now. […]
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Sushi Mimatsu, Asakusa (三松寿司)
After our blowout sushi dinner at Hashiguchi, I figured it was only fitting and proper that I should do some tour-guiding for Victorious. I thought he might like to buy a Japanese knife, and maybe see Asakusa, and Akihabara, and that’s what we did. He allowed as how he wouldn’t mind eating sushi again, and […]
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Sushi Hashiguchi, Akasaka (はしぐち)
Hmmm, here we go – Victorious came to Japan for his first ever visit, and this was the first time in over 10 years that we had spoken in person. What did he want to eat? Sushi, and Kobe, in that order (Americans love to call Japanese beef ‘Kobe’; I tried to delve into some […]
Kizushi, Monzennakacho (喜寿司)
Friday night, I turned down invitations from colleagues after work in order to meditate and prepare myself for Saturday. “I vant to be alone,” I thought, but a few seconds of research yields the information that, as usual, the famous quote isn’t really what Garbo said. Being in America for a few weeks, I hadn’t […]
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Edokko sushi, Kanda (江戸っ子寿司)
Edokko is a chain born and bred in Kanda, with a good half-dozen stores all clustered around the west entrance to the JR station. You’ve probably seen the yellow signs. Oh, unless you never go to Kanda, which I imagine is most of you. Well, here’s the glamorous environment that they serve fine fish in. […]
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Matsumi Sushi (松海)
l You can see where a guy like me would be interested in a place like this, can’t you? Looks so old and beat down, but with a quiet pride… Anyway, that romantic claptrap gets you nowhere when the subject is fish, and inside was also a little dingy, with a mild fish-and-vinegar bouquet. While […]
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Isohana, Kanda (磯はな、司町)
Kanda…where magic happens. Went up to the same little alley I mentioned in the linked post – there were two very worthwhile places there. The better looking, whose offering I don’t really understand (language issues) but whose style I admire…is closed on Wednesdays. That means that after the requisite walk-around-to-confirm, I ended up back across […]
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Sushi Dining Tatsu (辰)
With a bunch of critical meetings keeping important people busy or out of the office, plus temperatures nudging the high 70’s and clear skies, today was the ideal occasion for a long lunch. And long it was. I corralled Ponkan into visiting my favorite new neighborhood, the little corner of northerly Kanda with Mimasuya and Hanakago […]