Arrrr, beef, blah blah blah. Grade A5 wagyu, yadda yadda. Was it really worth trucking out to Ebisu after work to meet Roofie and have a burger? It’s actually closer than I always think, so it was pretty good value, time-wise. In addition to the animals being served at Blacows, the other wildlife in Ebisu is […]
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Tsunahachi, Shinjuku
Here we have a whole flock of peafowl scratching about in the yard, looking for seeds and worms. Actually we don’t. Only two of them are peafowl. But all of them are about to enter this tempura restaurant that I’ve read about a couple times, Tsunahachi. Let me just get it out there – I’m […]
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Sushi Hashiguchi, Akasaka (はしぐち)
Hmmm, here we go – Victorious came to Japan for his first ever visit, and this was the first time in over 10 years that we had spoken in person. What did he want to eat? Sushi, and Kobe, in that order (Americans love to call Japanese beef ‘Kobe’; I tried to delve into some […]
Kizushi, Monzennakacho (喜寿司)
Friday night, I turned down invitations from colleagues after work in order to meditate and prepare myself for Saturday. “I vant to be alone,” I thought, but a few seconds of research yields the information that, as usual, the famous quote isn’t really what Garbo said. Being in America for a few weeks, I hadn’t […]
Bonefish Grill, Deptford
For Dad’s birthday, and my last night in America on this trip, we went out for a pretty nice dinner. Bonefish Grill is up by the mall, just off the highway where Chichi’s used to be (reminds me of one time when I went there with some people and one guy insisted on giving his […]
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Swede’s Inn, Swedesboro
Well, this is it. The whole reason I went on this trip in September instead of May was to play this show. We had been working on a CD for the prior year+, and having completed it a few months before,scheduled a rockin’ good time for ourselves at the Swede’s – 4 bands featuring various […]
Five Points Diner, Deptford
Late night dining in Tokyo might mean chain izakaya, possibly sushi, or ramen, but definitely family restaurant. While your ‘fami-res’ choices in Japan are limited to Denny’s, Jonathan’s and a very few others, New Jersey is wonderful in that it’s still packed with late-night diners. The Seven Stars Diner is one such, residing as it […]
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Winnie’s Le Bus, Manayunk
Been to Manayunk? It’s still a nice area – I love all the old houses and older buildings, squeezed together in a setting that almost feels turn-of-the-century. If I could point to a downside, I think it’s not a very robust neighborhood. Based on the concentration of restaurants vs. all other types of business, it’s […]
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Hayashiya, Asagaya (食愉旬感 HAYASHIYA)
Northside Asagaya is a hip, bohemian enclave of over 100 fun little bars and restaurants…that were all closed on the holiday. But no reason we couldn’t walk around and see things, like this hip, bohemian house. They left the window open. I think that makes it fair game, and even fairer with a flash. Don’t […]
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Kaburaya, Asagaya (かぶら屋)
Kaburaya is a medium-sized chain of cheerful and very, very cheap izakayas centered on Ikebukuro and south on the Shinjuku axis. They have a few farther-out branches like this one that Peacock and I stopped in to after being rejected by some other places. God blesses the meek and the early openers – these guys […]