In this unassuming Shibuya basement (near the back side / high side of Tokyu Hands – I didn’t know this was called ‘Spain Slope’ until now) lurks…an unassuming Vietnamese restaurant with decent food, mediocre service, and weak cost performance! Sorry. Fresh spring rolls, which did pretty much what it said on the tin – fresh […]
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Papaya Leaf, Marunouchi
Hands up, who remembers the Coneheads? Yeah, my hand’s not really up either – that stuff was mainly before my time (or after it, if you consider that I’ve never been the type to stay up late enough to watch SNL). But I definitely remember that the early coneheads had a few catchphrases like “France…we […]
Cafe Hai, Kiyosumi Shirakawa (Modern Art Museum, Kiba Park)
An odd little sanitized slice of Vietnamese street life, transported to the second floor of the Tokyo Modern Art Museum in Kiyosumi Shirakawa (or Kiba, depending on your view). It’s mainly bright and pleasant and errr, authentic, with the wooden patio furniture and astroturf carpet only adding to the ambience created by the cute paintings […]
Cita Cita, Marunouchi (丸ビル５階)
How many Citas does it take to screw in a light bulb? How many dollars will it take to save Citabank? Hopefully it’s only 2, because the Soho Restaurant Group has only one outlet of this marque (the group also includes Roy’s, Xen and other Roppongi Hillz dwellerz). On a dark and rainy day when […]
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Bamboo, Otemachi
Ladies and gentlemen… I present to you after weeks of searching a pretty good restaurant in an Otemachi basement. And it’s Ethnic! Bamboo is in the long, long, forbiddingly long and crowded corridors of the Otemachi Building (creative names abound here). It’s in a strange place where the walls of the canyon press in a […]
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Café Singapura , Roppongi
For the regular lunch crowd, this used to be Golden Burning, variously known as’the Thai place’, ‘the Vietnamese place’, ‘the Asian place’ or ‘the red place’across from TV Asahi, at the bottom of Imoraizaka. ‘Red’ was a good description,what with the whole exterior being painted red and all. Now the red is gone(white, with a […]