With no plans for lunch on Thursday, I took the opportunity to freestyle a different neighborhood (a really different neighborhood from Otemachi). Following my nose out of World Financial Center, across the pedestrian bridge, past Ground Zero, all the construction and the pile of gapers, I ended up walking north on West Broadway (which is […]
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Benash Deli, New York
One of the world’s great joys is a great deli. If I lived in America, I would eat in delis frequently (in fact, despite what I do every day in Tokyo, I still maintain that my basic preference is for a nice sandwich at lunch time). When you see the pictures here, you’ll probably agree […]
Plane Food, Russia / Alaska
An impromptu trip to New York gave me the option to change the blog title yet again, just for a few days. Before things get back to normal in Tokyo we’ll see 4 Michelin stars and two tremendous local favorites. Actually you won’t see half of that, because most of the pictures are crappy beyond […]
Brasserie Ginza Lion, Otemachi
I know exactly what you’re thinking, so let me just deal with the issue now. You’re thinking “Wait, didn’t you already go to the Ginza Lion in the Otemachi Building basement on January 15th of this year?” Well, yes, but that doesn’t make this a repeat. They have two excitingly different locations for your dining pleasure […]
Otemachi Chubo, Otemachi (大手町厨房)
Late lunch filled me with desire to eat a big plate of pasta as well as a yen to knock off some more places in the neighboring Otemachi Building. It was close to 2:30 by the time I got down to the basement (these meetings get longer every week), and a lot of places were […]
Shintaku, Murakami (新多久)
Sunday, after leaving the lovely onsen, we went a bit farther north and out almost to the coast and the town of Murakami. This is a good model for tourism in the time of swine flu; the town has really pulled together to maximize the interesting elements and create enough attractions for visitors to make […]
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Kawatake Sushi, Niigata (河竹)
Did we do anything on this vacation except eat? Sure. A little. But mostly it involved being boiled. More on that when we get to tonight’s dinner (and an exhaustive look at the incredible onsen where we stayed). But first, it’s Niigata sushi! As I mentioned in an earlier post, sushi is viewed as a […]
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Hirugao Ramen, Tokyo (ひるがお)
Under Tokyo Station, all sorts of delights await. I walked it once before with little excitement, but today I enjoyed some mild exploration down the length of #1 Street (一番街, it’s on the Yaesu side). Down at the extreme south end, they have a little ‘ramen museum’ setup that opened this year. Perhaps in a […]
Ohashi, Nihonbashi (小割烹おはし,COREDO)
Today marks the 10th month of no-repeat lunching (as well as the first day of the rest of your life!). Seriously, I don’t feel any shortage of places to go, and could easily finish out the year. Remains to be seen, I guess. Including some non-repeat dinners, the blog and map now must feature close […]
Maisen, Tokyo (まい泉、大丸東京駅)
As a memorialist, I have little value. By this, I mean that I can’t remember things worth a damn. It used to be that I was the kind of person who could go from one room to another, then realize an hour later that I’d forgotten the thing I went for. Now, in our hyper-digitalized […]