Boring post, dead ahead. Aye aye cap’n! Hard astern!! This place is always crowded. During lunch hours they have 8 or 10 chairs outside, and a good portion of the time they’re in use. This means that the place is either really good or else is just plain popular for no good reason, which happens […]
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Shanghai Chubou, Kanda (上海厨房)
Well, if I’m going to have Tonkatsu Tuesdays, should I also implement Cheap Chinese Fridays? Because that’s what I got here. It was sorta soothing, it wasn’t bad, and it was really cheap. I’m totally guessing on the name Work plus an inconveniently-scheduled meeting meant that I didn’t get out for lunch until after 2. […]
Katsukichi, Marunouchi (かつ吉,新丸５階)
Probably a boring post, but let’s see where it takes us, OK? At least it will be tangential, I can promise you that. On a sunny late-summer day that only increased the twinges of autumn that have been percolating in the air all week, I asked Ponkan to go out for lunch. She said that […]
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Hantejiya, Kanda (韓豚屋)
This will be a boring post. Watch out. Coming back from a big vacation and eating nothing but European food for a week, I actually feel…sated. Usually I want to eat some meat, or pasta or desserts, but this week, not so much. It seems like a good opportunity to reflect and eat less, despite […]
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Kanda Hanten, Kanda
This is a boring post. Watch out. Quick lunch with Zoner to catch up after vacation; in a slightly compulsive way, I just steered toward Kanda and picked out a new place. It’s getting a bit thin up there other than the mass of shops under the tracks; we looked at the place that has […]
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Sozaiya, Otemachi
This will be a boring post – for some of us. If I’m not careful, I’ll finish going to all the restaurants in the basement of the neighboring Shin Otemachi building. They’re somewhat lackluster, but that’s Otemachi for you. I hope you’ve gotten that theme as it recurred over the past 8 months and over […]
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Nishimura, Tokyo
Truly, my friends, you can’t roller skate in a buffalo herd. But you can eat okonomiyaki for lunch any time if you try. Nishimura proves it. This is a rarity, wouldn’t you agree? What’s even cooler about Nishimura is the food ethic they espouse – it manages to incorporate some elegance in both the space […]
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Kakoiya, Otemachi (かこいや)
It’s great to see things through other people’s eyes – today’s lunch featured some overseas guests, and the most normal things on the plate were suddenly strange and bizarre. And fishy. I got the sense that their overriding sense was a sense of fishiness. They were right, all those things did have fish in them. […]
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Zen, Otemachi (然)
Mmmmmmm, natural and healthy. I don’t mean that sarcastically, actually. Despite being focused on healthy food (and serving brown rice), this place was quite tasty. That’s probably why this visit marked an unheard-of third visit for Shaft (though of course a first for me). It’s in the basement of the new JA building, which I […]
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Takegami Ittetsu Soba, Tokyo (たけがみ 一徹)
Tokyo Station Kitchen Street is actually starting to look a little slim in terms of unexplored places. This was one of them, and I liked it. The name means something like ‘stubborn’, which I expect is meant to be a comment on their unwavering commitment to quality. Tokyo Station has a campaign on for the […]