After the minor debacle of the grumpy grandma, I felt a little burned, but also a little hungry. Ever the glutton for punishment (see prior comments about needing to search to find those hidden diamonds), another sign piqued my interest. Ikada was equally a bit scary – a very normal izakaya on a very small […]
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Kimiyoshi, Monzennakacho (君代柴)
Hey, it’s time to be rude again! Seems like only yesterday… One time a few months ago, I worked up the courage to try this place in a back street of Monnaka. It’s got a nice aspect from the outside – dark, traditional house, a bright sign with difficult-to-read print, no menu outside…The kind of […]
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Chez Tomo, Shirogane
Ahhh, it’s been simply ages that I’ve been thinking of going to this place. I suppose I had heard of it, but then I ran across it one night while walking randomly around after work (when you worked at the one of 2008’s most spectacular failures, you’ve got plenty to walk and think about). And […]
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Pin, Ginza
A work event. Restaurants selected for work events make me skeptical. Even if they’re good restaurants, they’ll struggle to make and serve to a large group in a way that does justice to the food. Yet another thing that makes me skeptical is ‘Dining Bars’, which I’ve come to think of as Tokyo’s Applebee’s – […]
S&S, Monzennakacho
Deeeeeep. I’ve only gotten aware of the Japanization of this word in the last year or so, and in the context of something being sorta “way downtown”, i.e. really old-fashioned and authentic, and maybe a little grubby. So I’ve seen this izakaya reviewed as being pretty deep, although the same could be said about half […]
Gojusuzu, Monzennakacho (五十鈴)
Smarting from the poor picking I’d done on Izuro several minutes before and in need of something to redeem my honor (as well as better food), Gojusuzu seemed like a good pick. Again in the near southeast quadrant of Monnaka crossing, it had a pleasantly shabby outlook and a bunch of people inside. No particular […]
Izuro, Monzen Nakacho (いづろ)
Know what kind of restaurant I like best? The kind that’s simple, fun, cheap and yet still blows you away on taste. Despite any evidence to the contrary, I maintain that the flavor’s the thing, and the main reason why I go to higher-end restaurants is that the chances of tastiness are a bit better. […]
Raj, Marunouchi
Hugo (or Julito, as we like to call him, being in a perpetually Spanish frame of mind these days) was in The City for only a few days, and thus the old team resolved to spend a bit of time together. Bizarrely, our attempt to simplify matters while still meeting his request for ‘simple Japanese […]
Gabrier, Monzennakacho (ガブリエ)
Beer!!!!!!Yeah, definitely looking forward to tomorrow so I can let this motif go. Gabrier opened a couple months ago in the restaurant street north of Eitai dori – if you remember where there use to be a kinda long, narrow Italian place, with Ivy growing on the front, close to S&S izakaya and the main […]
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Mary’s Panhead Pub, Gibbstown
Mary, why ya buggin? With this post, we finally make good on the first element of our nj promise – rockin’. Unfortunately, a wardrobe malfunction means there are no audio recordings of the event, but there are certainly pictures aplenty…you’ll have to be in the Inner Circle to see those, unfortunately. As you can probably […]