My friends, I just want to highlight the effects of popularity in Asian culture. (In a broad, overly general, and likely patronizing or imperialistic fashion.) When something is popular, everyone wants to do it. No lie – all ~10 million people who live or work in Tokyo’s 23 wards want to come to Kanda for […]
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Toriyoshi, Ginza (鳥よし)
A work dinner with Koala, Ponyo, and three guys who don’t have cute nicknames (and for some reason don’t inspire me to assign any). There were some elements of tastiness, but this seemed like run-of-the-mill yakitori to me despite some recommendations. I did pick it from a list, so I’ll take responsibility; live and learn. […]
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Grande Mama, Yoga
Yeah, I can see where that name is a bit funny in English. Well, the staff here at eoitwj never like to let an opportunity pass. Today saw us gettiing our skates properly on for a bit of Hanami in Yoga (yes Shaft, at Kinuta! The trees were quite non-compliant. In fact I worry that […]
Pizzeria da Cibo
When Coredo comes to mind, all I can think of is compliance. Ponkan and I went to compliance training in Nihonbashi which was notable mainly for the length of the breaks and the relaxed atmosphere in the back of the room. This allowed us an extremely long lunch involving Coredo’s Quatorieme, both their standing bar […]
Maharaja, Marunouchi (My Plaza B2)
In need of a lot of exercise plus a tremendous Indian repast in order to burn it off? Actually, I wonder what’s the opposite of ‘burn it off’. Any ideas? Maharaja, it has to be said, is REALLY far away. If you’re coming from the office in Otemachi, it’s a healthy 15 minutes, or probably […]
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Kamonka, Tokyo (過門香)
There’s really a wealth of semi-hidden nooks all around Otemachi. As discussed with Koala yesterday, a lot of them aren’t worth seeking out, but I maintain the search is…oh, about 20% of the fun. Still, we soldier on. The North side of Tokyo station has a big bus boarding area (this is the convenient entrance […]
Hap, Kagurazaka
After being a bit disappointed with the Artist Cafe, I wanted to redeem the evening by walking around somewhere nice – and thought that Kagurazaka was close. Y’know, it’s hard to find stuff there when walking around at random. Hap, I think I had seen before on a random expedition. It’s kinda neat and modern-looking […]
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Champs de Soleil, Kanda
That’s right folks, 2 days in a row both see EOITwJ visiting the same Kanda street for Euro-food. This time it’s the highly-recommended Belgian outlet Champs de Soleil (but his friends call him ‘Champ’). Widely known among the underground, this is firmly on the list of ‘places to leave the office at 11:30 for’. After […]
Ikkon Buta, Kanda (一献豚、神田洞門)
Hitsumabushi is a unique dish of eel that’s famous in Nagoya (along with miso katsu!). ‘Famous in Nagoya’ is actually enough of a tipoff in my book that it’s not good, because (I’m prepared for backlash here) there’s really nothing interesting in Nagoya (please prove me wrong. I’ll visit any time.). The point of the […]
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Pasela, Ginza
As in the previous (really rather embarrassing) post, I’d like to ruminate on some things. I’ll get back to food eventually, I promise, and hit it hard over the weekend for the benefit of all and sundry. In Australia, people liked to say ‘horses for courses’ to mean that different things are appropriate in different […]