The Hongo explorations continue. I like it up here because it’s so quiet, especially if you cross the intersection going north toward Tokyo U, and even more so if you take the soft left onto this little half-shuttered shopping street. I found it months ago, coming from a different direction, totally lost, and was pretty […]
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Suzuki Sushi, Hongo (鮨すず木)
Down near the end of Hongo Ginza, past the fancy cured-meat purveyors and extremely hearty ramen dispensatories, a quiet little house with a fading noren waits. With bamboo. And the sign says ‘sushi’, but there’s no menu. The ‘design aesthetic’, such as it is, is the timeless one that pervades Japanese restaurants of a certain […]
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Bistro Abats, Hongo
Look, I know everyone’s upset about this whole nucular meltdown thing, but last Thursday everything was peachy. So peachy, in fact, that I wandered up to Hongo to try a place that appealed on previous research but closed too early for me to sample. It’s peeking out from behind the tropical foliage, down at the […]
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Aux Delices de Hongo, Hongo
On a little street in Paris…no, this is the alley leading from the oddly-placed Hongo station to the street. Aux Delices is a multi-level affair with a semi-casual bistro down and a more formal restaurant up. It would be neat to see what the top floor does, because the price ranges of lunch options overlap […]
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Otokoyama ramen, Hongo (縄麺 男山)
Have you noticed recently that it’s all about Hongo? Probably not since this is only the third post from there, but I’ve already been to 6 places that you’ll see in good course. I just started thinking, if I’m willing to go to Kagurazaka for lunch, what else is in range? Hongo – 6 minutes […]
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Shodai Keisuke, Hongo (初代けいすけ)
Keisuke has a bunch of different ramen shops and deserves a lot of credit for being creative. The first one I went to was the ‘lobster noodle’ place, which is like a very light, lobster-flavored ramen (and nothing like the lobster noodles you might get in Southeast Asia). That one’s called “Second Generation Keisuke”, so […]
Firehouse, Hongo
Boooooooy am I happy with this picture. I took one without the biker, but then I saw him coming, and BOOM! Anyway, now you know what Firehouse looks like. I’ve been riding my bike by here for years on my 20km ‘city loop’ and never noticed one of Tokyo’s best-known burger shops. And best. It’s […]