Faced with the upcoming decampment from Roppongi, the denouement of my Roppongi lunching career if you will, I feel a burning need to get around to as many restaurants as I can manage. And if I have to spend a bit to do it, well, them’s the breaks. We also need one more leisurely lunch […]
lunch
Aladdin, Roppongi
“I want Indian.”“I want to eat a lot.”“Let’s go to Aladdin.”These things go together. Aladdin’s Y1200 lunch buffet is the thing to do when you want to eat a lot of mediocre curry and tasty lamb (used to be Y1000 but has increased due to ‘rising food costs’). Let me skip the service and atmosphere […]
- Italian
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Pizza Salvatore Cuomo, Nishi Azabu
I had to wait very very late for lunch (thanks chief), and it’s hard to find much that’s open at 2:30. Fortunately the Salvatore on Nizhi Azabu’s fabled ‘restaurant street’ was still open (last order at 2:30, closing at 3. They were pretty keen that we not dally.). My friend announced in advance that the […]
- Other treats
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Sumishou, Nishi Azabu (炙り処 すみしょう)
Continuing with our theme of random places on the north side of Nishi Azabu crossing, I wandered into a tiny one today. (This is also in keeping with my theme of averaging one post per day this month…hang in there.) I didn’t notice until after I ate, but Sumishou is a motsu specialist – your […]
Burdigala, Roppongi
Wow, after all these years, who would’ve thought that I hadn’t posted about Burdigala yet? There used to be a time when Burdi’s was really a refuge for us – the place where we’d go on days where the morning had just exploded and we had crunched something out by 1 PM and said “Lunch?” […]
Provinage, Roppongi
UPDATE: Per YM’s comment below, we did indeed go back, and can now confirm that the Y2800 lunch course is more or less like the Y6000 dinner course at some restaurants. Her main was two ankou medallions in separate sauces (one the signature Americaine, the other I can’t remember), my main was two thick-ish lamb […]
- Indian
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Mantra, Ueno
Newsflash: The Ameyoko Center Building in Ueno (long, thin triangular one behond the Doraemon statue) has a big ethnic market in the basement. Fresh ethnic spices like lemongrass and cilantro, ‘ethnic’-looking cuts of meet like pigs feet and fish heads, big bags of lentils, imported pre-mixed seasonings (e.g., rendang mix, just add beef). I’ve been […]
4eme, Nihonbashi
It’s not every day that you get to have lunch in a strange city (just Nihonbashi in this case, so actually closer to home for me, but not Roppongi). Might as well make the most of it! In this case we were accidentally released early from obligations, and found ourselves on the street barely after […]
Sushigin (すし銀), Roppongi (Azabu Juban)
Tokyo will surprise you every time – there’s always something hidden away, even without resorting to secluded areas or invitation-only restaurants. We went to Juban specifically looking for something new, and since the really delicious-smelling giraffe curry place is takeout only, we had to keep looking. Much faffing around with French and Italian places later, […]
Azabu Choko (麻布長江), Roppongi (Nishi Azabu)
Hmmm, Chinese lunch. Not something that usually floats my boat, but something I’ve mentioned wanting to learn a bit more about recently. In this case we came to Azabu Choko quite by accident – wandering down the backstreet hills from Roppongi to Nishi Azabu, not settling on anything, finally getting to Gaien Nishi Dori and […]