Delicious Mexican Cuisine! is what the web site promises. It’s not bad, but it’s also not a patch on the Crazy Mariachi in Hammonton. On the other hand, it’s a good place to stop while exploring the declasse delights of the Newcastle Fleamarket. I really wonder how Mexican people feel when they see brightly colored […]
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Pan American, New York
Another night, another temporary departure from the office for dinner with a friend (tonight: Wolf) before returning to work until 2. Fortunately I did a touch of research in advance and this place turned out well. Wolf, I promise I didn’t see the review from Ashton B. on Yelp who says this place ‘oozes sex’. […]
El Marichi Loco, Hammonton
Good Mexican is pretty much a requirement for any trip to America as far as I’m concerned. One time I went to Napa Valley for a business trip, an offsite. I got to the resort about 5 hours before I needed to attend the first event and, reasoning that good Mexican is available anywhere in […]
Tacos del Amigo, Harajuku
Ole! Oye como va! I’ve exhausted my Spanish! Obviously Eating Out In Tokyo With Jake was a series of loosely-connected visits to strange choices of eating and drinking establishments…Venturing into this Mexican place on the Omotesando side of Harajuku was just the earliest in the succession, before we went down to Shibuya for a look […]
The Little Bigger Place, New York
With no plans for lunch on Thursday, I took the opportunity to freestyle a different neighborhood (a really different neighborhood from Otemachi). Following my nose out of World Financial Center, across the pedestrian bridge, past Ground Zero, all the construction and the pile of gapers, I ended up walking north on West Broadway (which is […]
Fonda de la Madrugada, Harajuku
My friends, I am a changed and converted and (further) humbled man. There is an OK Mexican restaurant in Tokyo. And it’s exactly where everyone said it was. In a basement in Harajuku that distorts time and space. As we went into the basement, my expectations actually increased. It’s well-nigh impossible to find decent Mexican […]
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Sol Amigo, Kanda
The recently Asia-jet-setting friend formerly known as Preacher, or sometimes Cheese Farmer, is here on a business trip (which we hope will be a frequent event) and we went out to eat. I finally made good on my desire to drag someone up to Kanda at night! It’s very bright and busy, but in a […]
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Le Jardin, Yoga
Setagaya Art Museum is good for a visit. It’s a healthy walk away from Yoga, and that healthy walk, if done properly on the smaller streets and not on the 6-lane monsters that cut through the area, will be almost unconscionably pleasant. It will include cobbled streets with architectural details at every corner, water features, […]
La China Poblano, Glassboro
Surprisingly, mes amis, there’s a real dearth of Mexican opportunities around Pitman (and it’s not just because of the racial bias, because the surrounding towns are weak also). Last week EOIPwJ visited a chain establishment called Moe’s that was so dull we couldn’t even get up the gumption to write about it (which you know […]
Taco Derio, Shinjuku (御苑ぐらい)
The search for quality Mexican food in Tokyo, my friends, stops here. But only briefly. And then it continues on its way, sadly shaking its head from side to side. That’s an overstatement, and the tacos here were certainly not bad. The tortillas were not at all bad, but very thin in an almost rice-paper […]