Many times I’ve lied and many times I’ve listened, many times I’ve wandered around Kagurazaka’s bistros. This included a lot of mid-to-late-night rambles, and it’s hard to find places that are open. One that’s reliably so is Hap, and one that’s reliably closed is organic vegetable-specialist A Ma Terrasse. Today I ate lunch there. It was […]
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En, Monzennakacho (えん)
Clearly I’m not spending enough time walking the streets of Monnaka at night; there were several new places since the last time I got around, and that’s a rarity. This one looked really nice on Friday night when Mayu and I were binging on my old favorite places, so when we found ourselves with time […]
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, Ikejiri Ohashi
Stop me if you’ve read this one before. Several years ago I saw a post by a foreign visitor that talked about a restaurant he’d visitied and how aMAZing it was. But, he said, the owner’s wife had asked him not to blog about it. Too secret. Too great. So he just posted a picture of […]
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Zukunashi, Tachikawa (ずくなし)
After spending some time reading, trying to nap, and swatting ants in the big Showa Kinen Park, I started walking around when I thought shops would be opening. Sometimes my approach lets me down. Much as I love picking an unfamiliar area and just rolling around, freestyling, looking for good stuff, the whole woody-exterior, bottles-outside […]
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Wagura ramen, Kanda (わ蔵)
Frankly, being in a new neighborhood is confusing these days. I’ve spent so much time wandering a few blocks of Kanda that it feels like home, and it’s disconcerting to visit streets that have the same faceless similarity of most of Tokyo…but aren’t the same. And that’s cool! I was standing on a corner, dithering […]
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Miharado, Kanda (三原堂)
After the disappointing cold noodles at the Big Dragon (and don’t get excited by the name, just avoid it), I needed something else to eat. Preacher and I happened by this place and I remember liking the look of it before. It’s a normal sweets shop, so you can get the usual assortment of baked […]
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Honoka, Musashi Koyama (穂のか)
Why is it that I find so many places recently worthy of a Recommended tag? (For the record, it’s currently 138 places out of a total 850, and I find that ratio quite acceptable, especially when you consider that some of them are lunch recommendations) I like to think that it’s because I’m such a […]
Hourai, Yaesu (蓬莱)
Cold Noodle Exploration Month (season?) continued today as I wandered through Yaesu looking for a likely candidate among the largish concentration of Chinese places there. Hourai was advertising their construction of cold noodle dishes (it’s the white page on the blackboard, so definitely seasonal), and I like the look too. A very pleasantly family-feeling place, […]
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Kikanbou, Kanda (鬼金棒)
Ahahahaha. I started laughing when I saw pictures of the ramen here. It shows up on ramendb as a top shop in Kanda, then gets pretty good scores for a ramen shop on tabelog. Those are mere data points, tit-bits and suggestions, but the pictures don’t lie, and the pictures were awesome. From what you can see, […]
Tonpu, Marunouchi (とん風)
18 months into the game, there are still plenty of restaurants to try out there, and this day featured a mixed cast of characters including Koala, Ponkan and Zoner; rare to see them all together, eh? This is one of the ones on the 5th floor of Shin Maru that just never quite appealed enough […]