I got all excited when I learned I was going to be working in Meguro for two weeks. I say ‘learned’ like I didn’t bust my hump to arrange it… but as soon as it was finalized, the ol’ obsessive habits kicked in and I was busily cataloguing every izakaya, ramen, and romantic European restaurant […]
Meguro
- Italian
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l’Asse, Meguro (レストラン・ラッセ)
I approach this review in a quiet residential neighborhood with some trepidation. What’s on tap for lunch today? A HUMMER? Are you sure? What’s it like? Oh, it’s LIKE NOTHING ELSE. Well, I can get behind that. Wait, what the heck IS this place? It is indeed, truly, verily, a ‘House of Tail’. Without further […]
- French
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Requinquer, Shiroganedai
Romance is not dead. Merely slumbering. It awakens every few years. Like cicadas. With a fortuitous alignment of stars and moon this month, Big Bird and I are both in Tokyo and had a few weeks to awaken the ‘romantic Thursday Lunch‘ tradition we established in 2011. Requinquer is pretty well-known and highly-regarded, so it’s […]
- Chinese
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Ryumon, Meguro (龍門 目黒本店)
Lunch with a colleague. I’m so used to picking where I go (sorry about that, friends and family) that it’s very confronting to have someone else say we’re going for Chinese. Because I would ordinarily NEVER GO FOR CHINESE. But this was cool, because it’s a Szechuan place. In fact it’s a classically smoky, yellowed […]
- izakaya
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Ametsuchi, Gakugei Daigaku (あめつち)
Sometimes the whole universe is contained in a single sesame seed. This isn’t one of those times. But it’s cool. It’s all good, baby. You’d think that the name of this place was about the rain and the soil, and the produce that they produce, but if you looked a little more you might start […]
- Other treats
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Ishin Ramen, Meguro (麺や 維新)
Hmmm, how did we feel about this? An absurdly high score on ramendb and a Michelin Guide ‘Bib Gourmand’ mention probably had hopes a little high. I can’t quite point to why I was dissatisfied with it. I guess if you wanted to sum it up in a phrase, it was all that but without […]
- Other treats
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Misakiko Sushi, Meguro (海鮮三崎港目黒店)
So I had lunch here today. The less said, the better. I don’t even want to tell you about the advances in kaiten technology since I last went to a kaiten. We’re done here. Use this link and I’ll never talk to you again. 03(3442)3266 In other news, Meguro has lots of nightlife attractions.
- izakaya
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Ta, Meguro (和創作 太)
Yooooooshta. It’s official. I have now been to all of the good sake places in Tokyo. Think you know another? Nope. Not good. This is the last one. Boo-yah! Good, I’m glad we could all agree on that. Back to work. Chalk up another one, Jimmy, another of Tokyo’s best i-zaka-ya’s gone under the bridge. […]
- izakaya
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Wajin, Meguro (和神)
Now, when I was heading out to Meguro this evening, one of my colleagues thought that was a very exciting place to go. She said there are lots of old-fashioned places to eat. Before I started looking around, I had been excited too, but I found it pretty difficult to find anything that looked especially […]