So, you know, a stressful week at work…made me want to do something quiet and contemplative, by myself. So I looked up some likely sake places in… and headed along after work. Let’s not beat about the bushes, Kasai is pretty dull. I went out this way once before (it’s farther east than my place, […]
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Akaoni, Sangenchaya (赤鬼)
The Red Devil is a famous place – certainly it was packed almost from the opening on the Sunday that we went (Woody, Poshand, me, taking advantage of their special 5 PM early-opener on Sundays). You’ll want to reserve if you go, and in return you’ll get access to a pretty magnificent list of sakes. […]
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Shinkomachi, Kiba (新小町)
Ahhhh, I kinda forgot to take a picture of the exterior here. It’s funny, where the place I went just before was empty, this was packed. I squeezed into the counter, which required several people to move their coats (and later required me to move mine when the last 2 seats filled up. Come to […]
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Tanyao, Kiba (たんやお)
Bait and switch, my friends. It’s an old trick. If you look closely at Tanyao’s sign, you’ll see that it clearly says ‘jizake’. I saw this a week or two ago when I went to the nearby bathhouse. When it got to be a Friday night and I had nothing else to do, I thought […]
Yamahei, Monzennakacho (酒蔵 や満平)
Documented fact – Don Henley’s Building the Perfect Beast is a great album. In addition to being a veritable catalog of 80’s effects (the constant use of FM synthesizers, one would imagine DX-7’s?; the gating on the snares (or at least the quick release times on the envelopes of the snare samples!); the washy reverb), […]
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Toritoku, Kayabacho (鳥徳)
It’s feasting season again…when the winds of change rise up, Putin rears his head and comes out of Russia into Alaska’s airspace, and the company randomly reassigns people to different teams with no apparent motivation or prior notice. Strange humors dwelleth in the heartseth of men, and the only solution is to get drunk and […]
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Omasa Komasa, Higashi Nakano (大政小政)
He means well. I want to preface all that follows with my emphatic belief that he does mean well. The waitress at Ranman (who was really lovely, in such a sweet and motherly way) told us it would take about 15 minutes to walk to Higashi Nakano, but warned that “It’s really dark.” While a […]
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Ranman, Nakano (らんまん)
No joke, after Okajouki we needed something more satisfying. (Nuts, did I really just write something that stupid? Well, you know the rules – no edits.) Ranman was it. In our party (which enlarged at this point) there was general agreement that this is one of the best pure izakayas ever. EVER! In the history […]
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Okajouki, Nakano (陸蒸気)
Well, I had promised to meet The Woodsman at 5 PM, after my bath. Due to excessive bathing and the sluggishness of mind that immediately follows it, it took me some time to get back up to the station and then start north along Nakano’s enormous, insane, pack-em-in covered shotengai. I didn’t even have a […]
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Wajin, Meguro (和神)
Now, when I was heading out to Meguro this evening, one of my colleagues thought that was a very exciting place to go. She said there are lots of old-fashioned places to eat. Before I started looking around, I had been excited too, but I found it pretty difficult to find anything that looked especially […]