Boring post, good sushi. No, really good sushi. Great value sushi. If you know some of my proclivities, you’ll know how much I like my restaurant map. And I also really enjoy seeing it fill out over time (Shinjuku recommendations very welcome!). There’s one region of the greater office area map that’s been sadly lacking in […]
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Tsunezushi, Asakusa (常寿司)
There are few things better than getting buried in an old neighborhood and popping randomly in to a nice place to eat. No? In Tokyo there are whole magazines devoted to this peculiar pastime, but all you really need is a train pass and a good nose for restaurants. I love trying to interpret the […]
Kita no Maru, Otemachi (北の丸、新大手町ビル)
There’s a weird ‘network’ concept going on in Marunouchi. All of the buildings above a certain size seem to belong to a sort of neighborhood association for mutual benefit. Nothing sinister, of course – here in Japan even the mafia aren’t sinister. But they cross-promote each other through magazines, video screens and takeaway pamphlets in […]
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 […]
Uoriki, Otemachi (魚力)
Just a few work days to go until we change the name of the blog and explore some classic options from an altogether different, more traditional yet somehow still exciting cuisine…watch out for it. Until then, every day brings a new Otemachi budget lunch destination! What with the rain and all today, it seemed like […]
Taruzen, Marunouchi (たる善, 新丸５階)
My friends, not eating a lot of meat has several strange effects on a person. The main one that I always notice is a powerful craving for meat, and over the past few days it’s been no exception. After a big beef-oriented Saturday night, I didn’t eat much protein for a couple days, and yesterday […]
Mizuki Sushi (水喜), Monzennakacho
One of my colleagues was looking at the map-and-pin system last week and said “So, you don’t have any recommended sushi places?” The reason for this is more a result of Google’s functionality than anything else; I didn’t see a suitable icon for recommended sushi. But to a certain extent I didn’t have any sushi […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Tobishima, Sakata (酒田、山形県)
One dangerous thing about having a car is that you’ll tend to drive it. So when faced with the prospect of nothing to do in Akita and a train late in the day, we looked at the map and set out semi-randomly for the coast. Sakata in Yamagata was the nearest city, and 2 hours […]