Mmmmmm, Roti. Oh wait, we don’t work in Roppongi any more. West Park Cafe is probably the closest one can get to the Roti Roppongi experience around here (the old Roti, before they went all black and mirrored). They even describe themselves as an Authentic American-Style restaurant. We all had burger sets, how about I […]
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Barbacoa, Marunouchi
The Wondertable group contains far, far more restaurants than is probably good for anyone’s health. I had no idea about this until I saw the spread of business cards under the counter at Barbacoa – the empire stretches from izakaya chain Roku Roku (Roppongi Hillz 5th floor, Shibuya near Parco, etc), shabu-ya Momo Paradise, Tokyo […]
Uoriki, Otemachi (魚力)
Just a few work days to go until we change the name of the blog and explore some classic options from an altogether different, more traditional yet somehow still exciting cuisine…watch out for it. Until then, every day brings a new Otemachi budget lunch destination! What with the rain and all today, it seemed like […]
Jokouen, Monzennakacho (叙香苑)
What’s that you say? EOITwJ never goes to Chinese? You’re right, it’s an awfully rare occurrence. Why is that? Well…it’s a bit samey, and they never have beef with broccoli. We have to have our American-style Chinese food, don’t we? No, seriously, we just don’t enjoy Chinese food that much. We don’t know what it […]
Cafe Hai, Kiyosumi Shirakawa (Modern Art Museum, Kiba Park)
An odd little sanitized slice of Vietnamese street life, transported to the second floor of the Tokyo Modern Art Museum in Kiyosumi Shirakawa (or Kiba, depending on your view). It’s mainly bright and pleasant and errr, authentic, with the wooden patio furniture and astroturf carpet only adding to the ambience created by the cute paintings […]
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Menya Kissou, Kiba (麺や吉左右)
EOITwJ is picky about a few things (no, really?). One of them is waiting in lines to eat. We’ve reached a point where we just don’t mind calling ahead to make sure we can walk in and sit down. But today we waited 40 minutes. For ramen. Why was that? One, the weather was nice. […]
Toritetsu, Otemachi (とり鉄)
Incredibly attentive readers will remember that we’ve visited an outpost of the Toritetsu Empire before, in the wilds of Inner Mongolia. Lest they take us too much to task for this repetition, we’d like to point out that we’re not opposed to reviewing multiple branches of the same chain (case in point, Sushi Zanmai), and […]
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Pizzeria d’Oro, Kanda
How do we feel about chain restaurants these days, my friends? For at least one of us (who’s writing this), it still comes as a bit of a shock to realize that the charming and ‘authentic’ place you just enjoyed is one of 5 or 6 just like it. We’d like it to be unique […]
Kappogi, Otemachi (かっぽうぎ)
A recent spate of mediocre to bad lunches have left us worried, my friends, that we’ve exhausted all the good lunch options in Otemachi. Today’s sojourn at Kappogi did only a little to ameliorate that trend, but it did afford us the opportunity to use ‘sojourn’ and ‘ameliorate’ in one sentence. There’s a signboard outside […]
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Mirokuya, Tokyo (もろくや)
Ahhh, is it time to inaugurate a Fukuoka category? No? I didn’t think so either. This is a pure stepping stone along the way to finishing off all the options of the 東京ガード下. It nestles down at the Marunouchi Kitaguchi end, and consists of not much more than a yellow sign, and big round counter…and […]