While looking for Suji’s web site, I saw another reviewer describe it as ‘unwelcoming’. I don’t know that I’d agree with that – it’s just like being in America. And how can anything American be unwelcoming? On a rainy day when you’ve woken up to find yourself employed by a different and significantly more Japanese […]
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Moti, Roppongi
Nothing says love like a succession of massive days in the office over the weekend, toiling away for your failed firm. And nothing puts the cherry on the icing on the cake like a big glutinous mass of Indian food plus some hot ‘n’ fresh naan. As an aside, in 1998 when I was working […]
Baggio, Roppongi
One of the happiest days of my life was when I learned Baggio was doing lunches. Until then they were hit-or-miss, mostly miss, with no pizzas, only pasta, and some months no lunch at all. Frankly not so interesting; pasta doesn’t pay the bills. So when I found out a few months ago that they’d […]
Shanghai Dream, Roppongi
Inspired by my last visit to Hutong and realization that I don’t know enough about Chinese lunches, I maneuvered today’s lunch into a trip to Shanghai Dream, known (to me) as ‘the orange-fronted place’. This is on Roppongi Dori’s south side, on the way to Nishi Azabu (near the horrible Charleston Cafe, or the quite […]
La Brace, Roppongi (Azabu-Juban)
This place should have a nickname in my team, but it doesn’t. We have ‘The Oyaji Place’, ‘The Duck Place’, ‘The Weird Chinese Place’, ‘The Too Much Food Place’, etc. For a while Burdigala was ‘The Good Value Italian Place’, but that was mainly because of the bread (which changed, along with the increased price […]
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Ammirare Firenze, Kamakura
Well off the beaten path for this one, but I was joining my friend for a (pretty terrible) sort of community-themed live music event near his house in Kamakura. And when venturing into the wilderness like that, I always figure one should make the most of it and explore some local fare. After hours of […]
Hu Tong San La Ju, Roppongi
Duck! To my knowledge, this is the only place to go if you really want a duck lunch in Roppongi (Café Eight is known for it, but only at dinner, and their lunches are insipid – I think of it as bad Chinese diner.) The too-much-food and too-tasty Y2000 duck lunch is well-met by lots […]
L’Osteria, Roppongi
UPDATE 11/14/08:Had the Pranzo A for the first time. Y2600 seems like good value for the following. I’m not quite as rhapsodic as the same deal at Provinage, however…– Appetizer: small leaf salad with fresh crab (delicious), small portion of roasted vegetables in olive oil with orange accent (a little weird but tasty)– Pasta: Small […]
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Teppanyaki Aoyama, Roppongi
Newish-contender in the give-me-your-lunch-dollar stakes, offering a very refined and expensive-looking environment in which to enjoy teppan lunch sets that are, I kid you not, good value for Y1400 or Y2000. In a nice building (strange narrow concrete front, tucked away down Imoraizaka, large running water feature and spiral starecase in the dark, cool lobby. […]
Lescure, Roppongi
Well, I went to Lescure for lunch in the Winter of 2007, so it’s perhaps unfair to review it now (especially since I didn’t like it!). On the other hand, in checking for the web site now, I’ve learned that it’s closing down tomorrow. Insert smug comment here. The name on the web site itself […]