How did this excape notice? I mean, it certainly didn’t excape my notice as a chocolate destination. I used to stop in of an afternoon when I was bored at work in the UrbanNet building around the corner, or after a rousing lunch under the railroad tracks. But somehow it excaped blogular detailment. Debailleul occupies […]
Oazo
Kobeya, Otemachi
A weird sort of deja vu, all over again. I could swear that I already wrote about my lunch at Kobeya, which was late last year or early this. I really enjoyed it at the time, despite the obvious failings, and I remembered it fondly enough that I went back again. For the better part […]
Tazumura, Otemachi (たづむら,OAZO 5)
Welcome to the first installment of Tonkatsu Tuesdays. Geez, I thought of all sorts of interesting things while I was eating today, but now I’ve forgotten and can’t promise that this will be interesting at all. Not to put too fine a point on it, I visited the tonkatsu place in Oazo that Ponkan and […]
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Okazuya Heikuboncho, Marunouchi (Oazo)
You’d be for given for thinking I’d sneezed in some spectacular way,what with the length and glottal spasming of that name. But no, that’s what they call it! The first part is something like ‘side-dish seller’, and that’s a pretty accurate capsule review here – great side dishes, lackluster mains. (I feel unusually compelled to […]
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Imonokura, Otemachi (芋の蔵、オアゾ６階)
The quest continues, my friends. As we enter the third week of March, marking more or less 10 weeks of Otemachi, we are proud and a little embarassed to report that EOITwJ has not, in fact, EO at the same Otemachi dining outlet twice. Unless you count the desk-lunch bento from Bamboo, but we don’t […]
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Komatsuan, Otemachi (小松庵、オアゾ５階)
I’ll tell ya, it’s been a long time since I enjoyed soba this much. Usually I want to like it, because I like the handmade soba ethic, and the whole ‘pure mountain grain and water’ sort of thing that goes along with it. But the noodles often come out…how can I put this…boring? Yep. The […]
Bastide de Crillon, Otemachi (オアゾ５階)
“Crillon’s Castle”, or words to that effect, is tucked high in a mountain aerie where only eagles and brave or foolhardy men tread. Errr, flap and alight. And peck. Or something. Actually it’s just on Oazo’s 5th floor next to Amalfi Moderna, and its tablecloths share the same slightly vomitous shade of green. I was […]
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Nenohi, Otemachi (ねのひ, Oazo 6th)
Someone wiser than myself once said “You get what you pay for”. This has been repeated ad naseum but still holds water, as recent Otemachi dining experience has shown. Fortunately there are still gradations within the spectrum of getting what you pay for, and today’s lunch was a good example of paying a healthy amount […]
Amalfi Moderna, Otemachi (Oazo)
Ahhh, the limitless options continue. Here in week 3 of our new Otemachi Adventure, my friends, there’s not even a hint of revisiting the same places. Several readers have now accused us here at EOITwJ of excessive completism, but we continue to view it as our public service, nay, sacred mission, to provide information on […]
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Sekkomon, Otemachi (石庫門, Oazo B1)
Oazo B1 branch of this purportedly Shanghai restaurant. 4 choices of lunch set hovering around Y1000, with today’s choices including Ma Po Tofu, Tan Tan Men (these are Shanghai specialties? I didn’t know Shanghai was in Sichuan!), Hoi Ko Lo (sorry I can’t spell this) and egg/jellyfish/pork stir fry. My ma po was adequately spicy […]