Saturday, I bought a ramen magazine that focused on recently-opened stores. Surprisingly, it had quite a few places in my general neighborhood. Disappointingly, I had been to most of them! One that I remembered looking good was in the basement of the Asahi/Nihon Building – I had been perhaps unfairly biased against it because of […]
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Ree Rose Cafe, Kanda
Self described ‘Curry Izakaya’ looks like a converted ramen shop in the bowels of the east-side Kanda entertainment streets (if I haven’t made it clear enough, this is a weird neighborhood. Today we spotted a sword shop (definitely) and a soapland (maybe).), staffed by two sub-Continental folks speaking very dodgy Japanese. Their naan was as […]
Bistro Lyon, Otemachi
You’re not going to believe this one – I hadn’t been to the casual bistro place in the basement of the building across the street? Well, no. It’s generally kinda crowded, but it’s more my contrariness menifesting in a desire to avoid buildings that more people frequent. With a late lunch promising limited crowding, I […]
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Cafe Vignoble, Takadanobaba
A few days around the house and I was mildly bored. Since there are a nearly-endless series of neighborhoods to explore, and no time like the present to get started, I did a quick search on the Interwebs and then went to Takadanobaba. I don’t know how the name came about, but the ‘high field’ […]
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Yuasa, Mita (湯浅,芝)
This post innaugurates an exciting new chapter in ‘places I’ve never been before but will have to explore’ – Mita. If you’re like me, you may well have thought of Mita as a boring subway stop consisting mainly of office towers and huge apartment blocks. If you were like me, you would have been wrong, […]
Izzy and Nat’s, New York (Battery Park)
A great deli is one of the world’s great pleasures. Izzy and Nate’s is a little puzzling to me (the classic-sounding Hebe deli names coupled with the largely Latino staff, but I think that’s a NY thing or maybe just a US thing emergent in the 9+ years since I left, and yes I’m licensed […]
Brasserie Ginza Lion, Otemachi
I know exactly what you’re thinking, so let me just deal with the issue now. You’re thinking “Wait, didn’t you already go to the Ginza Lion in the Otemachi Building basement on January 15th of this year?” Well, yes, but that doesn’t make this a repeat. They have two excitingly different locations for your dining pleasure […]
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Denshou, Kayabacho (田昌)
November 18, 2009: Second visit confirms that this place has warm, quirky service and great food – chicken or not. Sashimi was exemplary, I still like the moutain potato tofu, and I believe firmly in electric-grilled chicken. A funny surprise was that the master was working the fish and cooked things – there was a […]
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Bangkok Express, Otemachi
Raising the Boring Post indicator to Amber Alert. If we’ve ever talked about Thai food, you know how much I like the Tokyo Thai chain Tinun. Oddly, I see that I haven’t been to a branch since I started writing this blog, which is a real oversight. If you choose your branch carefully (avoid Yoyogi), […]
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Le Point Ouest, Kamakura
On the way back from Enoshima, we did the touristy thing and took the Enoden, the small, old, electric train that meanders carefully through a series of cute neighborhoods between Fujisaki and Kamakura. (Incidentally, I don’t recommend taking it to get to Enoshima. We got off the main train line at Fujisaki, as close as […]