Open 24 hours, 7 days a week, this Korean place seems to serve its limited menu mainly to Koreans working in the Akasaka area (of which there are many, especially at night. That’s why there were various tables of women with big hair and fur coats even late at night.). It’s tasty and soothing, a […]
Akasaka
- bar
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Trader Vic’s (Hotel New Otani, Kioicho/Akasaka)
EOITwJ has a somewhat puzzling luv for tattoos, big orange guitars, and…tiki bars. We think it started on our birthday (that may be an excessive use of royal plural. More like rural plural or something.) in 2002, when Suz showed up unannounced at a fancy dinner and made us go to Trader Vic’s (which I […]
- beer
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Delirium Cafe Reserve, Akasaka
My friends, do you like beer? 4 out of 5 dentists agree that men like beer, in a strictly clichéd and stereotypic way. But I like beer, and my good friend McNoonan also likes beer, and we were having a little reunion last night involving the usual lunch cast-of-characters plus McN, and we went to […]
- bistro
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Aux Bacchanales, Kioicho (Asakusa)
I can hear more curmudgeonly members of the audience already: “You went where?!” Then again, I post some crappy lunch place every day recently, so perhaps this is just indicative of my declining standards? Aux Bacchanales is a small chain (7 shops across Japan) that strives for bistro-style perfection without trying too hard. On the […]
Jim Thompson’s Table, Akasaka
I like Thai food. I really like Thai food. I could mostly eat just Thai and Japanese and French food every day, with perhaps a little Mexican, American, and Italian thrown in for variety. But only those. A Thai buffet is therefore an awfully tempting proposition, especially if it also includes some Japanese and French […]