After being a bit disappointed with the Artist Cafe, I wanted to redeem the evening by walking around somewhere nice – and thought that Kagurazaka was close. Y’know, it’s hard to find stuff there when walking around at random. Hap, I think I had seen before on a random expedition. It’s kinda neat and modern-looking […]
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Artist Cafe, Korakuen
This sounds like a great idea – live jazz every night with stunning views from the 43rd floor of Tokyo Dome Hotel. In practice, it’s a little less impressive than that… The decor and menu are a little on the family-restaurant side. I know they’d be pizzed to read that, but it’s true. The names […]
Pui, Kiba
The whole team here at EOITwJ has done a LOT of scouting missions around the greater Monzennakacho area (the ‘metro area’ we like to call it). Outside the main regions, there isn’t usually much to see, and things don’t come and go the way they do on the Monnaka back streets either. So when we […]
Provinage, Roppongi
While Provinage is a repeat visit for EOITwJ, I’d like to reassure any worried readers that we have not abandoned our borderline-pathological focus on eating somewhere new at every opportunity. It’s just that Provinage is so pleasant, as is the opportunity to have a special event like the first ‘Eating Out In Tokyo’ dinner. I […]
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Rabelais, Ebisu
I have a feeling people go to Rabelais for one pretty good reason – you can take your dog. The excitable fellow on the left was next to me all night and kept nipping at my heels. He wasn’t noisy, but he was quite agitated, especially when faced with a camera! The whole restaurant is […]
Wansu, Ebisu
Well, Korean food is not one of my specialties, but this makes two Fridays in a row that EOITwJ has gotten all jiggy with the togarashi. This week’s event, organized by Shaft, was much more Korean than Karaya last week, which was a good (but not better) thing. The atmosphere and menu are too different […]
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Pasela, Ginza
As in the previous (really rather embarrassing) post, I’d like to ruminate on some things. I’ll get back to food eventually, I promise, and hit it hard over the weekend for the benefit of all and sundry. In Australia, people liked to say ‘horses for courses’ to mean that different things are appropriate in different […]
Aquavit, Gaienmae
Lest anyone think that EOITwJ is strictly an OL-style lunch blog liberally peppered with snarky comments and random musical asides, here’s some genuine fine dining. Aquavit hit my radar through the glossy pages of Tokyo Calendar, where it featured in one of the ‘style’ posts – models lounging around the restaurant, little to no food […]
Karaya, Shinbashi (甘楽屋、内幸町)
Ohhhh, when will I learn kanji my friends? Only last night I was still making the beginner’s mistake of confusing ‘spicy’ for ‘happy’. Quel embarassment, as they say in France when they’re tourists and also can’t spell. One could hopefully be forgiven for not correctly guessing the correct pronunciation of either the name or the […]
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Dagashi Bar, Suitengu (水天宮駄菓子バー)
You’re going to have to come down-market with me here, and indulge in a bout of nostalgia. I can’t tell whose nostalgia it is though, and I feel weird making it mine. I’ve been looking at stuff in Japan for long enough now that I understand which things are supposed to make someone feel nostalgic […]