Spring is in the airz. The tower continues to erectify. That wasn’t a word, so don’t add it to your vocabulary. Meanwhile, in a completely differential part of town (I’m Edokko, so I think Eitaibashi is light years away from northerly Kanda), Big Bird and I walked around for a long time, decided we didn’t […]
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Sasazushi, Kanda (笹寿司)
Sasazushi is constant. Sasazushi doesn’t change. This is the first thing they say on the web site, which is pretty funny when you consider that the history page features a detailed explanation of all the various sushi carts and locations on both sides of the river that went into the lineage of the present-day Kanda […]
Katayama, Kiyosumi Shirakawa (天ぷら 片山)
Today was the day of the big fish ‘n’ sake party, and I was out shopping. This is ont he way to the sake store, but the sake store was closed and I had already bought a bunch. My favorite rice store is right near the sake store – they always have at least half […]
Nolita House, New York
I’m sure you’ve noticed that I like me a little bluegrass music. I come by that honestly since Dad (not his real name) liked it before me. When I managed to convince him and Mom (not her real name) to come up to New York for a visit during my business trip, it seemed like […]
Island, New York
Island is all about proximity. We ended up there because it’s proximate to the famous SOLOMON museum, seen here in an arty shot. Further, we ended up at Island because it’s right next to the famous brunch spot Sarabeth’s. I believe this is the same branch I visited with Mayu and OJ years ago; it […]
SouthWest NY
Noted Southwestern cooking experts Abraham Merchant and Richard Cohn promulgated this restaurant in the bottom of World Financial Center. It’s like all the restaurants in the building – good in the pictures, but sorta brash and lacking charm in person. When it’s busy at lunch, it’s pretty tiring. I should know – I went twice, on […]
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Touran ramen, Kanda (桃蘭)
It’s an ill-advised wind, my friends, one that blows in from Kanda. It blows you down little alleys like this and into shops that aren’t likely to be very good. There’s a certain romance to seeking out hidden gems, but this is Tokyo. Depending on your reckoning there are 9 to 50 million people, and […]
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Pure Yakiniku, Kanda (焼肉 ぴゅあ)
Right across the street from Eiki sushi, this gets the same distinction – one of the most-walked-by places I’ve never visited. That all changed for the better today when Todd and Tucker were the guinea pigs for yet another expedition to Kanda and a new place. Not that we ate guinea pigs. It’s all meat […]
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Rio, Kanda
Aaaaah, how many times have I written this review? “Average quality European-influenced owner-chef-style restaurant where too much Japanese influence has crept in over time and standards have crept down.” Too bad, because the door looks nice. This is exactly the kind of place my team would go for a work dinner. Looking at the food […]
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Eiki sushi, Kanda (えい輝)
It’s a measure of both the popularity and, I like to think, the inferiority of sushi in foreign countries. Waddap asked if we could go to a ‘sushi-type place’ today on his last day of visiting from London, and was suitably amazed by Eiki. Nothing wrong with that – it was one of the best sushi […]