Probably more than a year has gone by since I started thinking that Bistro Lugdunum looked like the best bistro in Kagurazaka – which any French person in Tokyo will tell you is saying something. Since the French School is nearby, various French things have congregated there for years, and there’s a higher concentration of […]
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Gassan, Hatchobori (月山)
My work dinner finished early – awfully early, in fact, since the guest of honor had a separate dinner plan that we didn’t know about. That left me mildly fed and, having already written off the evening, not in the mood to go home. Naturally that led to a random cruise around some odd neighborhoods, […]
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Zenshutoku, Ginza (全聚徳)
When you’re in Beijing, if you say ‘Peking Duck’, everyone will tell you to go to Zenshutoku (I heard this from the waiter and at least one other source – who actually lived in Beijing – so it must be true). When you’re in Ginza, or Shinjuku, you may say Peking Duck with impunity, safe […]
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Ajitoku, Shinbashi (あじとく)
Having finished our studies at the Fish Research Center, and wanting somewhere else to go, Preacher and I perused the back alleys of Shinbashi some more. For some reason I thought this place looked good in a down-home way. I was more or less wrong. Certainly it was authentic and cheap, and the customers and […]
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Fish Research Center, Shinbashi (魚研究所)
Several weeks or months ago, coming home from a particularly disastrous meeting (this one, but I’m sort of a gentleman sometimes so I didn’t mention the disastrous aspects in the original post), I was so disgruntled that I got off the train and walked around Shinbashi. It always seemed like a grubby, seedy area for […]
Fukumen Ramen, Jinbocho (覆面)
mmmm? mmmm!? mmm hmm. mmmm! MMMM!!!! !!!m!MM!!M!!M!MM!!!!!! Fly~~~ me to tha moooooon… [January 12, 2011: At the risk of ruining the purity and impact of this post, let me discuss the membership policy here. In theory it’s members only, but I believe that’s only applied at weekday dinners. On the other hand, I first went […]
Akatsuki, Jogasaki (暁、城ヶ崎海岸、静岡県)
Let me start off by saying that I don’t particularly want you to go here – we got a really weird last-minute deal (65% off? What were they thinking?) that made it worthwhile. If you paid full price, you’d be disappointed despite the excellent location just north of Izu Kogen, within walking distance of the […]
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Ginza de Wine, Ginza (銀座でワイン)
Bring Your Own wine is a great concept, and one of the main things I miss about my years in Australia (really!). In Oz, it was usually $0-5 to bring a bottle in, which is nothing compared to the 100% markup restaurants usually impose (a problem unless you’re drinking 2-buck-Chuck). In case you didn’t know, […]
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Fuji, Morishita (藤,森下)
Every day I sink a little deeper into Fukagawa. Which is a shame, because Fukagawa is slipping away a little every day. I hate it when travel journalists strike a maudlin tone about this sort of thing, because the single biggest factor in the slipping-away of Fukagawa’s heritage was almost certainly extensive firebombing in WWII, but […]
Viron, Marunouchi
Viron probably holds the title of ‘most visited restaurant in Tokyo’ for me. Weird, isn’t it? You can tell how much I like it because, when I started this blog, before I started writing about the restaurants that I was visiting, I wrote about a few things that were lodged in my memory, and Viron […]