haha, if you have to mess something up, do it right! Depending on your definitions, I may have eaten today at a place that I went to before – when it was in a different building and had a different menu and decor entirely. Well, I’ll chalk that up to experience. The basement-dwellers of the […]
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Izumoya, Kanda (いづもや)
Is this the eel life?Is this just fantasy?– Queen The strategy here was to save the best for last, and it seems to have worked out. This Izumoya appears to be unrelated to the (pretty good) one on the other side of the station. If you have only one meel to eet eel, (meaning you’re […]
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Tamai Anago, Kanda (あなご玉ゐ)
Rikki dont lose that number / Its the only one you own You might use it if you eel better / When you get home – Eely Dan Yet again we break the eel-shop pattern today in several slight, distinct and interesting ways (not the least of which is that the eel was damn good!). […]
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Marushou, Kanda (築地丸正)
I just called to tell you that I need you, baby I just called to tell you how I ee~~~~~~~l– Wiffen Many genres within a particular field of study seem hopelessly limited until one plunges into them deeply enough. Submersion brings familiarity, and with familiarity comes not contempt, but a regard for the small details […]
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Izumoya, Kanda (いづもや、神田２丁目)
This eel’s on fireBurning down the road– Danko, Dylan Ahhhh, things roll on up in Kanda. I have to say, I was really looking forward to having a nice box of eel for lunch today! Izumoya didn’t disappoint, but I’ll certainly need to wait until Friday to give any thoughts on what your priorities should […]
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Kametomi, Kanda (亀とみ)
Eel in the sky keeps on turningI don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow – Fleishman, Schon, Valery The Kanda Eel Showdown kicks off today with a pleasant, middle-of-the-road choice. Were I to be a completist about lunch destinations (heavens!), I’d point out that this place occupies a little sliver of real estate right between Sunaba […]
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Ganesha, Kichijoji (ガネーシャカリー,ハーモニカ横丁)
I got laughed at a few times by different people for saying that going to Ganesha ‘made me feel like I was in Asia’. It bears explaining that everyone around me these days thinks Japan isn’t part of Asia, so when they use that word, they mean “All Asian countries except Japan”. There’s a lot […]
Bridd, Kanda (ブリッド)
This place was under renovation for a while, and opened several weeks back. It’s pretty stylish, winey and Italian-looking (with a healthy side of roasted bird), which marks it as part of a new guard of Kanda places (c.f. Chailly, which, if truth be told, is the only other place I can think of in […]
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Jirokichi, Kanda (次郎吉)
Ooog. Big bowl of noodles, hot hot day, patient is comatose. Yahoo says it’s only 90/32 degrees, but I don’t believe it. I was out there. Same general area of Kanda today. Actually the same street, not the threatened pizza place around the corner. There’s always tomorrow. Or Monday. But I thought of a fun […]
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Muromachi Sunaba, Kanda (室町 砂場)
Kanda continues to delight this hardened area lunch-eater. Today I ventured even farther afield, getting to the limits of where I can walk and return in an hour, to visit this highly-regarded soba restaurant. If you’re wondering where I got the picture (and why it’s so sunny when that’s clearly not today), I yanked it […]