After learning that there IS one decent Mexican restaurant in Japan, it was still early. We elected to find a cafe and/or bar, and started walking in the general direction of Gaienmae. Somewhere along the way we ran across Cafe Flaneur, which is the kind of place that makes city living so nice. Tokyo style. […]
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Kanda Hanten, Kanda
This is a boring post. Watch out. Quick lunch with Zoner to catch up after vacation; in a slightly compulsive way, I just steered toward Kanda and picked out a new place. It’s getting a bit thin up there other than the mass of shops under the tracks; we looked at the place that has […]
Hide, Kyobashi (秀)
Nice weather and a ready bike always make me want to venture farther away from the office. I want to stress that it has very little to do with finding new places, which is not a challenge – there are still 3 places right in my building that I haven’t been to yet! Today I […]
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Mia Bocca, Minami Sunamachi
Sometimes it’s a hot summer day and you’re sitting on the couch and you’re sticking to it and all you can think is “Hey, it would be better to be at the mall than being here” and then you go to the mall. Since I finally started riding my bike again, I now know that […]
Cafe Life, Azabu Juban
In Japan, your apartment is probably small. And that means a significant part of your social life takes place outside it. For some people, their personal life may take place outside the home as well – your apartment is so small that you don’t feel like being there, and it’s hard to cook, so why […]
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Chok Di, Kanda (โชคดี)
With apologies to all fully and partially Thai readers, because I really love the country, did you know that in Thailand it’s polite to crap? Ugh, this is in poor taste already. But seriously, it’s very polite to say ‘crap’ after practically every sentence if you’re a man (pronounced with an almost vanishing ‘r’ and […]
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Kashira, Shimokitazawa (頭,下北沢)
When I got to Tokyo, McNoonan was living in Shimokita. This seemed like a slightly odd place to live, but he swore by it despite the small apartment and long commute (Roppongi isn’t convenient. Opening the Oedo line helped, but it’s still not that convenient except for foreigners who live right around there.). Of course, […]
Espressamente Illy, Marunouchi
Coffee!!!No, not really, because I haven’t been drinking coffee much this year (good lord, the year’s almost half over). But today 鈴寺さん and I went out so I could listen to her complain about work, and we headed toward Kitchen Street again, and then I remembered the semi-outdoor place at the northwest extreme of Tokyo […]
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Hanaya, Tokyo (華屋,八重洲北口)
Not that long ago, Zone and I wandered deep into the wilds of Yaesu for lunch and found buried treasure (if shabby, cheap, retro standing izakaya count as treasure!). This has been on my mind for some time and has been engendering a deep desire to explore further in this ‘deep’ neighborhood (where we take […]
Bomu, Ebisu (韓国居酒屋ボム)
Well, another Friday night, another Korean diner dinner. This was unfortunately way less good (if I may use such language in your erudite company) than Wansu; I kepｔ looking at the menu in the hope of finding some of the things that I ate at the other place. No relation, so I guess it’s unrealistic, […]