Beef!!!! I’ve been eating too much brown rice and vegetable this week (comments about big plates of curry and burger notwithstanding. Or maybe those comments should be withstanding, and this should be themed ‘hambagu week’ at EOITwJ. This paranthetical has now completely hijacked the first paragraph, so let’s just leave it open and go about […]
Tokyo
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Andalucia, Yaesu
Yeeeessss, one place wasn’t enough for all the conversation we had to get through, so Preacher and I strolled around debating what to do, finding no particular place where we wanted to settle in after eating so much at Hanaya. A few blocks passed before we found ourselves in front of Kavach and the ill-starred […]
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Hanaya, Tokyo (華屋,八重洲北口)
Not that long ago, Zone and I wandered deep into the wilds of Yaesu for lunch and found buried treasure (if shabby, cheap, retro standing izakaya count as treasure!). This has been on my mind for some time and has been engendering a deep desire to explore further in this ‘deep’ neighborhood (where we take […]
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Mirokuya, Tokyo (もろくや)
Ahhh, is it time to inaugurate a Fukuoka category? No? I didn’t think so either. This is a pure stepping stone along the way to finishing off all the options of the 東京ガード下. It nestles down at the Marunouchi Kitaguchi end, and consists of not much more than a yellow sign, and big round counter…and […]
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Hiro Primo, Tokyo (キッチンストリート)
Hiro can’t get a break…from me at least. When I went to his Maru Biru branch (Hiro Centro; good lord, I think I didn’t write a post on this!) I found it to be over-priced and under-serviced, but such things are natural for the upper floors of the Maru Birus. Today I tried (again) to […]
Sabou Oiwake, Tokyo (茶房追分,東京駅)
Fresh from overdosing on chicken, I realized that lunch with Volleyball had been scheduled in for some time. He had overdosed on pork last night, so we set out in a healthy frame of mind. Wandering past the south-of-Eitai-dori options under the tracks, I was struck by the fact that nothing looks good there. It […]
- Other treats
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No-tenki, Tokyo (呑うてんき,八重洲)
Evidently a bit of linguistic confusion on this one – the dictionary doesn’t want to admit that the titular phrase exists, and one noted expert around the office says “There’s no such word.” It’s a slight bastardization of a phrase for ‘happy-go-lucky’, which I guess is as good a phrase as any to convey the […]
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Steak Peter, Tokyo
Mom has always been a big fan of health food. Some of my earliest memories seem to be of hanging out in health food stores, trying to get some carob snacks. Or yogurt raisins (do those ever get anywhere near yogurt?). Some kids take this as a prod to go in the direction of anti-health […]
Kaku-uchi, Tokyo (角打)
Accidents will happen, especially in the current global climate. Bearing this in mind, we at EOITwJ try to remain open to happy accidents, especially when they involve the happy accident of finding a cheap yet tasty lunch locale in Greater Otemachi. Clearly this policy is going to result in some unhappy accidents as well; despite […]
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Suginoko Udon, Tokyo (すぎのこ、東京駅キチンストリート)
Yesterday, my friends, marked the end of our three month ‘experimental’ period here at EOITwJ. For the first three months of Otemachi life, we resolved to 1) Wear no tie that we had previously worn in our old lives, but only ties that we bought over the New Year’s break and 2) Eat lunch at […]