Man, I really feel like I wrote this before. We’ve all been to Kurosawa, right? Shifting set of lunch options anchored by soba as well as buta-don, slightly interesting and slightly expensive dinners? Sure, we’ve all been. This is the Roppongi Kurosawa. It does that sorta ‘country Japanese’ ambience quite well, managing to feel homey […]
mid-price
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Kavach, Tokyo (カバチェ)
Well, if you’re going to have 4 work dinners in a month, some of them might as well be in decent locations. Kavach is the Yaesu branch of a 3-restaurant Italian chain specializing in reasonable-if-dull repetitions of Italian classics. In fairness, I was in a group of 30, and I think that even the best […]
- Other treats
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Outback Steakhouse, Roppongi
Good lord, what was I thinking, missing Outback? I shudder to think of all the places I’ve been in Roppongi that I won’t be able to get back to in time to post legitimately on them before shuffling off to Buffalotemachi, but at least this one’s out of the way. After the menu revamp a […]
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Saraku, Tokyo (茶らく)
I have a feeling that I need to adjust my rating system. The lunch contained herein felt like Y1200 or even Y1500 by Roppongi standards, but was Y1100 (and the under-Y1000 lunch looked just fine too). Similarly, if every day is going to bring a new teishoku, just tagging all these entries ‘washoku’ isn’t going […]
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Bistro Khamsa, Nakameguro
We were stumbling around Nakame last night, and I was freezing my patooties off. Despite being hungry, tired and cold, I still wasn’t willing to compromise on the vittles. We passed some places that looked good, and I wish we had gone to Bacione, but there’s usually a next time. So next time! Along the […]
Sushi Aoki, Monzen Nakacho (鮨あおき）
I admit, I had looked at this place before and thought it was fairly nondescript in that slightly scary sushi way where you don’t know what you’re going to have to pay. Then I looked on tabelog, found that this was the top-ranked sushiya in Monnaka, and shamelessly planned to go. I’ll go back; it […]
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Iruchi, Roppongi (Nishi Azabu)
Recently alerted to the entry of this place to the lunch scene, I fooled a friend into trekking down to Nishi Azabu for some Korean luvvin’. No, it’s not a barber shop, but it IS a tasteful and modern basement space serving chige and bibimbap that meets or exceeds expectations. The menu is a little […]
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Zenmaru, Otemachi (膳丸)
For the inaugural lunch of our Otemachi encroachment, we were shepherded into the basement of the oddly-named ‘First Square’ building and given a choice of two teishoku places (since I had ventured that I wanted to eat teishoku, being in the center of Japanese business and all that). Maruzen looked better, and turned out to […]
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Oriental Princess, Roppongi
Ahhh, Oriental Princess. You know, this was the first place I ever had lunch as a Lehman Brothers employee? Thanks Scottie! Phew, that seems like a lifetime ago. I love their slogan – “Spicy Asian Diet”!The Princess is a basic Japanized Thai place. For lunch you can get a couple choices – curry plate with […]
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Houblon, Ginza
Boyz, this is it. You think you’ve been to a Belgian beer bar in Tokyo? If it wasn’t Houblon, you haven’t. They have the atmosphere, they have the food, and they have a menu big enough to break the camel’s back, with 300 types of beer (some of which are even in stock!). There’s a […]