Sato Yosuke is a fairly good-sized chain of udon shops, with their spiritual home in the Yuzawa region – the town of Inaniwa, source of the eponymous udon (there’s also a Ginza branch, making this review genuinely relevant). Pictured at left, I kid you not, is Inaniwa Castle, though you could be forgiven if you […]
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Roppongi: R.I.P.
Well, my friends, this was it – the Last Lunch in Roppongi. Did I feel a bit like Jesus, surrounded by my disciples? No, not a bit. This is a repeat post, but it’s also a sad and special occasion. It was decreed that our last lunch be a Burger. And it was subsequently put […]
Cogito, Roppongi
Let’s begin today’s post with a link to Terry’s review of the same establishment, to save him the trouble of posting the same… Cogito is a charming, cozy, warm and cluttered French outpost that nestles in a secluded mountain clearing across the street from the Grand Hyatt and barely 1 minute’s walk from Terry’s apartment. […]
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Shioya, Roppongi
In the basement of this building you’ll find the famous grilled-pork specialist Tontokoton. Upstairs there’s a very dignified-looking sushi place, and a very un-dignified-looking Okinawa place specializing in salt-grilling. We went the undignified route! Not a lot of options at lunch – today there was sanma (I thought the season was over! O’Hara served us […]
Saizeriya, Monzennakacho (Toyocho)
You will ask yourself, gentle reader, why I went to Saizeriya. Truth is, it’s not so bad, it’s dead cheap, the food doesn’t always contain excess melamine, and the only other choice in that location (Toyocho’s East 21 center, home of a new Queen’s Isetan that I was test-driving for dinner shopping) is…Sushi Zanmai. 2 […]
Ohara et CIE, Roppongi (Nishi Azabu)
I can die happy, my friends. Along with l’Auberge au l’Ill, this was the remaining high-end French lunch I wanted to eat in Roppongi. With it out of the way, I think we can regard the Roppongi lunching experience as mainly closed (although there’s still a whole week of lunches to go, and one hopes […]
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Zen, Roppongi (膳, 芋洗坂)
In troubled times, nothing comforts like soul food. Thus on a difficult day like today, suffering through bizarre work orders from various sides, trepidation about the future of the team, and existential angst about life, it was a pleasure to be turned away from two other establishments on Imoraizaka and find ourselves in Zen. (The […]
Jewel of India, Roppongi
The hits keep on coming, don’t they? Today’s lunch was the curry buffet at the famous Jewel of India. I went with Double-R, who tells me that this is a favorite hangout for Indian movie stars visiting Tokyo, as well as being K-Rizzle’s favorite lunch place (and K is Pakistani, so he should know something). […]
Giliola, Roppongi
The streets around Roppongi Crossing are a mess; I was noticing today that there are far more sandwichboard lunch advertisements than I ever thought before. I don’t know what these places are, and at this point I’m never going to find out! Giliola is a little more notable – it faces Roppongi Dori on the […]
Sunny Diner, Kita Senju
I went to Kita Senju, Sharon, to buy myself some cheap ties. It’s a sort of personal-improvement project. For the next period, still to be determined but at least 4 weeks, I’m wearing nothing but ties that I would never have considered wearing 2 weeks ago. Since these are items that I expect to go […]