Whoo, that was close my friends… 鈴時さん and I actually got all the way to the table of Suginoko before the sight of the menus reminded me that I had been there before. Oops. Fortunately this was the penultimate day of new-venue restrictions, and in the future such little slips won’t risk endangering mt, errr, […]
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Ichino ichino ichi, Nihonbashi
Fire, water, wind…an elemental dining experience is on offer here at Ichinoichinoichi (can I abbreviate that as ‘hey you’ or ‘the place’?). I first saw this n a magazine and was mildly impressed by the outdoor terrace, big torches, and overall resort-y aspect…until I saw the address was Nihonbashi! ‘Where could that BE,’ I thought […]
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Shigenoi, Tokyo (繁の井,東京駅キチンストリート)
Yup, the Delicious Link Group is getting all my lunch dollar$ this week. Straight up. Seriously, I think the whole basement of Tokyo Station’s Kitchen Street is controlled by this same shadowy organization. Well, they’ve got a bit more style than many other restaurant groups, so I’ll let them pass. Shigenoi is a bait and […]
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Tobu Sakana, Shimo Kitazawa
Wow, the main course. This is close to the station, and one of the first places we saw when we started walking around. Stayed on my mind all day, and I wanted to go back. This being Japan, the good-looking places get packed, as was this one when we got back (at 6:30). Fortunately the […]
Second House Cake Shop, Shimo Kitazawa
I know, I know, the last thing you need after a bowl of ramen and a plate of gyoza is a piece of cake. But after walking around for an hours, you get tired of standing up and looking at old clothes (which is one of the main activities in SKZ). This being Japan, there’s […]
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Pin, Ginza
A work event. Restaurants selected for work events make me skeptical. Even if they’re good restaurants, they’ll struggle to make and serve to a large group in a way that does justice to the food. Yet another thing that makes me skeptical is ‘Dining Bars’, which I’ve come to think of as Tokyo’s Applebee’s – […]
Papaya Leaf, Marunouchi
Hands up, who remembers the Coneheads? Yeah, my hand’s not really up either – that stuff was mainly before my time (or after it, if you consider that I’ve never been the type to stay up late enough to watch SNL). But I definitely remember that the early coneheads had a few catchphrases like “France…we […]
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Jumpee, Kanda
Before we get started, can I divert for an unrelated thing:Stuff Parisians Like is a funny blog. It’s openly ripped off from Stuff White People Like, but covers a group that I’m not part of and a place I’m interested in. OK, on to today’s dining adventure. Decayed and rotten fish is a great thing, […]
Maison de la Bourgogne, Kagurazaka
Kagurazaka is a neighborhood of side streets. If you stay on the main street, you’ll think it’s mildly charming but a bit gaudy and a bit ruined by development. Chain restaurants, cheap bars and down-market shops abound. The particular maison in question today is down towards the Iidabashi end of Kagurazaka (for those Chinese-speaking people […]
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Da Cibo, Tokyo
Nearly 3 months ago, my friends, an impending GWC meeting caused a few of us to be in Nihonbashi at lunch hour. Not wanting to waste the opportunity, we went to Coredo for that lunch. In fact we ate pizza at a decent place with a genuine brick oven of the imported-from-Italy species. Today we […]