Oazo B1 branch of this purportedly Shanghai restaurant. 4 choices of lunch set hovering around Y1000, with today’s choices including Ma Po Tofu, Tan Tan Men (these are Shanghai specialties? I didn’t know Shanghai was in Sichuan!), Hoi Ko Lo (sorry I can’t spell this) and egg/jellyfish/pork stir fry. My ma po was adequately spicy […]
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Ganesha, Otemachi
“I just saw Slumdog Millionaire and boy am I hungry!” ==> Indian lunch.OK, that wasn’t really how it went, but the movie was mentioned at lunch (again, after its strong performance at Golden Globes). Ganesha is in fact the Indian restaurant in the basement of the JA building where I knew the waitress from another […]
Kanda Grill, Akihabara
Once again finding myself in Akiba (funny how that always happens…), I wandered around the Showa Dori side for quite a while looking for somewhere tasty to lunch. Seat seems to post Akiba places every week, so I thought I’d run into them…but nothing appealed, and I ended up back at the big Yodobashi and […]
Murasaki Takumi No Tsukemen, Monzennakacho （紫匠乃)
A new tsukemen place opened in Monnaka a while back. In fact, I have a feeling it’s going on 2 years, but time moves more slowly for us 江戸っ子. I’ve thought many times about going, but never pulled it together. Partly it’s the plethora of other options in the dining paradise that is Monnaka, and […]
Jewel of India, Roppongi
The hits keep on coming, don’t they? Today’s lunch was the curry buffet at the famous Jewel of India. I went with Double-R, who tells me that this is a favorite hangout for Indian movie stars visiting Tokyo, as well as being K-Rizzle’s favorite lunch place (and K is Pakistani, so he should know something). […]
Tamura, Roppongi (田村)
Ohhhhhh, this was good. Bangkok was full (down the street kinda behind TGI Friday’s, right? Near the Oakwood serviced apartments, formerly Weekly Mansion?) so we continued walking down the street and saw a sign outside. That was for the motsu nabe place, which draws resounding ‘yucks’ at lunch from most people (like me). Across the […]
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Sakura Shokudou, Roppongi (Sakura 食堂. Really.)
This pleasant place opened during the ‘renewal open’ period a while back (errr, it may be 6 months already, but the last 6 months have been kinda surreal as you may have read). It has all the elements of a ‘healthy cafe’ that you might expect to find in a side street of Shibuya or […]
Ichiriki, Monzennakachououou (一力)
[Jan 2011: This closed ages ago. It’s a shame, really.] 幸せ. I’m really not sure what prevented me from going into this place over 4 years of walking by it. I have a feeling it was the lack of menu outside, which is of course a frequent problem in Japan and one that any self-respecting […]
Goroku, Monzennakacho (伍六)
It’s a hard job, being a famous food writer, and my liver bears the scars for it. But I feel a responsibility to my fan, so I keep going. Tuesday night found us shlepping home (in the royal plural sense) from work, in the rain, remembering that the new restaurant we had spotted the day […]
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Table d’Hote, Kayabacho
Hey, my new favorite Italian restaurant! Dangerously close to the route between home and the new office (moving date still to be determined), so could prompt frequent stops for a pasta and glass of wine on the way home. As long as I’m walking or biking, I think it’s OK! One-man restaurants are dicey. I […]