Geez, when the weather turns good, it brings out the dogs. And the dogs, and their owners, want to sit on cafe terraces and sip lattes, and the like. Barring that, for instance if they’re unfortunate enough to live in Tsukuda, home of huge apartment buildings and not much else (and a short walk only […]
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Budoya, Kanda (葡萄舎,鍛冶町)
EOITwJ doesn’t mean to harsh your mellow if you’re having a bad day, but we’re having some very good days here. It may be mostly the weather that’s suffusing us with contentment and feelings of well-being, and to that we say, “shine on!” No meditation or psychotics are involved （最高~~!). Nor aura therapy. Ahhhh, the […]
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Steak Peter, Tokyo
Mom has always been a big fan of health food. Some of my earliest memories seem to be of hanging out in health food stores, trying to get some carob snacks. Or yogurt raisins (do those ever get anywhere near yogurt?). Some kids take this as a prod to go in the direction of anti-health […]
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Yuru-Yura, Kanda (日本橋本石町)
This is a bit of a genre unto itself, isn’t it? By that I mean not the ‘Kyo Banzai’ that Yuru and Yura specialize in, but rather “Dark wood bar with good snacks run by women and playing reggae”. The food’s good, the atmosphere is pleasant in a weird ‘tropical Kyoto’ way, and it seems […]
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Frank, Kanda (フランク、鍛冶町)
Where do they get these names? By ‘they’ I mean ‘the people of Japan’. Still, we love ’em, one and all (the funny names). Frank is a more-than-worthy contribution to the name sweepstakes. Where does the word ‘sweepstakes’ come from? (This is a colorless and unsurprising explanation. Yuck. I hold out hope for a more […]
Saigon, Otemachi
It’s no secret around the EOITwJ offices that we like ‘dad jokes’ or ‘oyaji gags’, in today’s parlance. That’s why translating the name of this place as ‘The Last Grunt’ is so amusing right now. (最後んっ.) Good to the Last Grunt? My friend J. had the fortune, I won’t say if it’s good or bad, […]
Igrek, Marunouchi
Man, the hits keep on coming. Today saw us down in Shin Maru, ticking off a place that’s crossed the radar any number of times but always come up short for either fullness (it gets that way at lunch) or theoretic cost performance (I dunno, the dinners just look a touch…hmmm.). For lunch, the quality […]
Kaku-uchi, Tokyo (角打)
Accidents will happen, especially in the current global climate. Bearing this in mind, we at EOITwJ try to remain open to happy accidents, especially when they involve the happy accident of finding a cheap yet tasty lunch locale in Greater Otemachi. Clearly this policy is going to result in some unhappy accidents as well; despite […]
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Suginoko Udon, Tokyo (すぎのこ、東京駅キチンストリート)
Yesterday, my friends, marked the end of our three month ‘experimental’ period here at EOITwJ. For the first three months of Otemachi life, we resolved to 1) Wear no tie that we had previously worn in our old lives, but only ties that we bought over the New Year’s break and 2) Eat lunch at […]
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Chailly, Kanda (シャイー)
My friends, I just want to highlight the effects of popularity in Asian culture. (In a broad, overly general, and likely patronizing or imperialistic fashion.) When something is popular, everyone wants to do it. No lie – all ~10 million people who live or work in Tokyo’s 23 wards want to come to Kanda for […]