Romance is not dead. Merely slumbering. It awakens every few years. Like cicadas. With a fortuitous alignment of stars and moon this month, Big Bird and I are both in Tokyo and had a few weeks to awaken the ‘romantic Thursday Lunch‘ tradition we established in 2011. Requinquer is pretty well-known and highly-regarded, so it’s […]
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Ryumon, Meguro (龍門 目黒本店)
Lunch with a colleague. I’m so used to picking where I go (sorry about that, friends and family) that it’s very confronting to have someone else say we’re going for Chinese. Because I would ordinarily NEVER GO FOR CHINESE. But this was cool, because it’s a Szechuan place. In fact it’s a classically smoky, yellowed […]
- Other treats
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Ishin Ramen, Meguro (麺や 維新)
Hmmm, how did we feel about this? An absurdly high score on ramendb and a Michelin Guide ‘Bib Gourmand’ mention probably had hopes a little high. I can’t quite point to why I was dissatisfied with it. I guess if you wanted to sum it up in a phrase, it was all that but without […]
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Misakiko Sushi, Meguro (海鮮三崎港目黒店)
So I had lunch here today. The less said, the better. I don’t even want to tell you about the advances in kaiten technology since I last went to a kaiten. We’re done here. Use this link and I’ll never talk to you again. 03(3442)3266 In other news, Meguro has lots of nightlife attractions.
Gonpachi, Azamino (権八)
OMG, we found the most incredible place! It’s aMAZEballz! Did you know they filmed Kill Bill here? But I jest. They didn’t really film Kill Bill at the Roppongi location, and when you factor in the complete lack of driving rain inside this place and the 8-person private room they allocated to our family of […]
- French
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Anis, Hatsudai (アニス)
We have to pick our lunch spots carefully these days – where can we run out to for a glamorous lunch and be back before Peanut wakes up from his nap? I kid, I kid, but we do have to pick, because he can’t stay home for that long. I thought Anis was near Yoyogi, which […]
Cafe Normale, Shimo Kitazawa (カフェ ノルマーレ)
I am hungry, and yes, yes, it is called love. It is called love in the world. Continuing on with amusing uses of foreign language, we have Cafe Normale. Amusing in this case because cafe should be masculine and get a manly adjective form, but I’m not hung up on that, because the two women […]
- Italian
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Quinto Canto, Osaka (クイントカント)
Any lunch that starts this way has got to be pretty good, right? No, seriously, I went to Osaka for the first time ever, and since someone else was paying the fare, I felt it left me plenty of room financially to act like a big shot. I worked the inter-pipes and came up with […]
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Ichi Kichi Ramen, Kami Asao (らーめん 壱吉, 川崎市麻生区上麻生)
Once in a while I like doing a long, loving post about something completely inconsequential. Today the sky was blue and the mountains were calling, and I went for walk in search of sustenance. Sort of hunter-gatherer thing, you understand. On the other side of the mountain, life is simpler. This is really like country […]
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Hachi Ramen, Takadanobaba (はち ラーメン)
I was out on a mission this afternoon – go to guitar stores, have ramen, urban-hike Tokyo, find an early-opener izakaya with Sunday hours, and get drunk. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, BY GUM. The guitar stores were in Shin Okubo today (Korea town, also interestingly invaded these days by people whose provenance causes them to open spice […]