This is one of those places that I walk by frequently and never go into. Usually I’m walking by coming from the train, when they’re not open, or going to the train, when I’d like to stop in but am trying to avoid extraneous calories when alone. Today lunch had to wait until almost 1:30, […]
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Rigoletto, Marunouchi (新丸７階)
Shin-Maru’s 7th floor is an adequate late-night destination, should you not be the old, withered type who prefers to be safely tucked up in bed by 1, 2 or 3 (like me). The semi-open plan and plethora of mildly-interesting destinations, few of which EOITwJ has yet visited. The year is young… Rigoletto also has an […]
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Budoya, Kanda (葡萄舎,鍛冶町)
EOITwJ doesn’t mean to harsh your mellow if you’re having a bad day, but we’re having some very good days here. It may be mostly the weather that’s suffusing us with contentment and feelings of well-being, and to that we say, “shine on!” No meditation or psychotics are involved （最高~~!). Nor aura therapy. Ahhhh, 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 […]
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Yuru-Yura, Kanda (日本橋本石町)
This is a bit of a genre unto itself, isn’t it? By that I mean not the ‘Kyo Banzai’ that Yuru and Yura specialize in, but rather “Dark wood bar with good snacks run by women and playing reggae”. The food’s good, the atmosphere is pleasant in a weird ‘tropical Kyoto’ way, and it seems […]
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Frank, Kanda (フランク、鍛冶町)
Where do they get these names? By ‘they’ I mean ‘the people of Japan’. Still, we love ’em, one and all (the funny names). Frank is a more-than-worthy contribution to the name sweepstakes. Where does the word ‘sweepstakes’ come from? (This is a colorless and unsurprising explanation. Yuck. I hold out hope for a more […]
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 […]
Mammoth Curry, Akihabara
Sure, I have a weakness for bright-yellow-themed curry restaurants. And I definitely have a weakness for curry when I had a long night eating tempura and then had to work the next day. So when I finished work of a Saturday and traipsed up to Akiba mid-afternoon, all that was on my mind was supplementing […]
Bistro Ishikawa Tei, Kanda (ビストロ石川亭)
A-MAZ-ing. I was so struck dumb with disbelief that I couldn’t even write a post this afternoon, my friends. If this isn’t my new favorite restaurant, I don’t know what is. Pictures at 11, or once 花水 gets them out of her camera and over to me! Koala told me that she saw Ishikawa Tei […]
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Rui, Otemachi
My friends, the Sankei Building still has a few tricks left to surprise and delight us even after lo these many months of unbroken newness in our daily lunch quest.Well, maybe not ‘delight’ so much. Surprise…sure, let’s give ’em the benefit of the doubt. Respecting the wishes of Joey, Dee Dee, et al, I had […]