Recently I’ve been feeling like we’ve ‘done all the good stuff’ regarding sake in Tokyo, i.e., visited all the famous izakayas and even the hidden gems. With that in mind, I consulted my ‘targets’ map for something a bit more out of the way for Poshand and me to try this evening. Being sorta between […]
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- Kanda
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Kibi ramen, Kanda (支那そば きび)
On the radar for quite some time is this Shina Soba place in the northern reach of Kanda – the same area I always go on about, yes. It gets pretty good scores for the area. It’s dark and moody inside – not dirty, just dim and artfully-lit. Which is funny because the customers are […]
- Italian
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Canova, Sendagi
Plan for a day off: Run. Decompress. Ride bike to Nezu/Sendagi for foreign-food lunch. Done. New Tokyo Tower is getting pretty damn big. If you get up next to it, you’ll definitely be incredulousized at its biggosity. As it is, and if you live on the good side of town like me (West Side haterz, […]
- coffee
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Midori no Mame, Toyocho (緑の豆)
It’s such a pleasure to be wandering around my neighborhood during business hours on a weekday (this was the day I renewed my driver’s license, so I had the whole afternoon off). Usually it’s a weekend, which doesn’t feel the same, or it’s 6 in the morning and I’m running or cycling or something. All […]
- Other treats
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Umauma ramen, Tokyo (うま馬)
Sorry, I was with a colleague (You) and forgot to get a picture of the exterior. This is tucked into a corner of Tokyo Station’s Kitchen Street, so you should be able to find it without much trouble. Not that I’m advocating finding it, I’m just saying. Didn’t even realize it’s Hakata ramen until we […]
- Asakusa
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Otafuku, Iriya (大多福)
Otafuku is an institution. The Woodsman has been here several times over his comings and going vis a vis Japan (something like 15 years since the first arrival, no?) and positioned it as one of those ‘You haven’t been?!’ experiences. Plus the horse stew place I wanted to try was closed when we got there. […]
Kizushi, Monzennakacho (喜寿司)
Friday night, I turned down invitations from colleagues after work in order to meditate and prepare myself for Saturday. “I vant to be alone,” I thought, but a few seconds of research yields the information that, as usual, the famous quote isn’t really what Garbo said. Being in America for a few weeks, I hadn’t […]
Silver Diner, Cherry Hill
Silver Diner came to my attention years ago when I lived in the Washington metro area, where I think it originated. The concept is to re-do and over-do the classic diner, making it bigger, blockier, shinier and diner-ier than it ever was in the first place. As people point out all the time when they’re […]
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Swede’s Inn, Swedesboro
Well, this is it. The whole reason I went on this trip in September instead of May was to play this show. We had been working on a CD for the prior year+, and having completed it a few months before,scheduled a rockin’ good time for ourselves at the Swede’s – 4 bands featuring various […]
Olympia Restaurant, Vineland
Did I forget how much I like Greek food, or did I never know? I bet the last time I went to a Greek restaurant in America was in Greektown in Chicago, circa 1999. I do know that there was one time in college where I was back in Pitman and drove down to the […]