The search for quality Mexican food in Tokyo, my friends, stops here. But only briefly. And then it continues on its way, sadly shaking its head from side to side. That’s an overstatement, and the tacos here were certainly not bad. The tortillas were not at all bad, but very thin in an almost rice-paper […]
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Toritetsu, Otemachi (とり鉄)
Incredibly attentive readers will remember that we’ve visited an outpost of the Toritetsu Empire before, in the wilds of Inner Mongolia. Lest they take us too much to task for this repetition, we’d like to point out that we’re not opposed to reviewing multiple branches of the same chain (case in point, Sushi Zanmai), and […]
Kappogi, Otemachi (かっぽうぎ)
A recent spate of mediocre to bad lunches have left us worried, my friends, that we’ve exhausted all the good lunch options in Otemachi. Today’s sojourn at Kappogi did only a little to ameliorate that trend, but it did afford us the opportunity to use ‘sojourn’ and ‘ameliorate’ in one sentence. There’s a signboard outside […]
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Darts Bar Jam, Kita Senju
Our obsessive tendencies continue with this post on a tiny, dark, 3rd-floor darts bar in Kita Senju. However if you’ve been for a burger at Sunny Diner (and you should go, you really should), and afterward you want to play darts and have a drink and do some quiet contemplation of how great the burger […]
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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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Tonton, Yurakucho (登運とん)
That name is crap. Nobody could read the kanji without being told. I can’t even figure out what they’re trying to say – ‘rising luck’? But Japan is great, and this place is one of a million reasons why. Tonton is cheap as chips (or whatever cheap thing you prefer if you’re not English), and […]
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Tama no Hikari, Otemachi
Thus far, EOITwJ has done a pretty weak job of bringing you coverage of the 24 restaurants in the basement of the Otemachi Building (that doesn’t include Starbucks or the conbini, nor does it include the street-level places like Drunk Bears). Today we set out to change that (for a start, we counted the restaurants). […]
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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 […]
Torahachi, Otemachi (とら八)
Our introduction to Torahachi was momentarily a bit of a worry – the overhead speakers were playing a 70’s power pop song that I like but couldn’t identify. Really an embarassment. After that it was more comprehensible, if less exciting, as we cycled through late-70’s favorites across a number of genres. The Eagles treated us […]
Bravo, Marunouchi
Bravo! Actually the praise runs out more or less right there, scotching my budding plans to make this a hilariously positive joke post. Bravo is an adequate pasta-pizza lunch spot. It’s almost the last thing in line under the train tracks leading north from Tokyo station, on the Marunouchi side. Mildly inspired by my crazy […]