Yoooooosh (iki). As of today, I no longer lunch in Greater Otemachi. I trust that the 453 entries for Otemachi, Marunouchi, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, and Kanda will tide you over if you need ideas for lunch or dinner. But for now, let’s party! Several weeks ago, Shaft and I entered into a long process of negotiation that […]
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Coulis, Shintomi
There are a few places in Tokyo that I believe in enough to go back to, and a very few that I feel compelled to post more than once about. Coulis is one of them. Y1800 for these four courses? Seriously? How do they stay in business? Feeding off the souls of the dead restaurants […]
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Honoka, Musashi Koyama (穂のか)
There are a few places in Tokyo that I like believe in enough to go back to, and a very few that I feel compelled to post more than once about. Obviously Honoka is one of them. I don’t think they remember me despite the nice welcome card, because I was there quite some time […]
- bar
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Ant & Bee, Roppongi (アントンビー)
Years of my life, I spent here, years. Seeing Mori Tower gives me a peculiar feeling; not like the dread I used to get when I would catch a glimpse of Chifley Tower across Sydney Harbor on a Sunday, but a little twinge. Fortunately it’s been years in arrears since I felt the certain intensity […]
- izakaya
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Mitakaya Sakaba, Morishita (みたかや酒場)
I almost feel bad writing about Mitakaya. Let me count the ways. Just two, actually. 1. It’s on my street, and I like to support local business, but it took me approximately 2,500 nights to go for the first time. 2. The Mitakas, and their customers, are the nicest people, and I would hate for anyone […]
Sabroso, Ochanomizu (サブロッソ)
Yooooooshta. It’s official. I have now been to all of the good sake places in Tokyo. Think you know another? Nope. Not good. This is the last one. Boo-yah! Good, I’m glad we could all agree on that. Warm, sunny nights in summer, I just enjoy the hell out of Tokyo. After work I took […]
- Italian
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Molinari’s Deli, San Francisco
We just, y’know, stopped off in San Fran for a few minutes. Checked in downtown, had a look around. Ran smack into the 57th annual North Beach Street Fair. Shit. So much for showing someone all the little places I used to love around here. People were lined up 6 and 8 deep to get mediocre […]
- French
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Eleven Madison Park, New York
Whoa, attack of the rainy season. Someone and I didn’t have umbrellas, so when the minimal patter of raindrops in Brooklyn became a thuddingly heavy downpour in Manhattan, we were stuck in the subway exit with a hundred of our closest friends. A strolling umbrella vendor wandered through, but that was for suckers – rain […]
- bistro
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Bibou, Philadelphia
This Wednesday was supposed to be road-trip day, followed by date-night. Fortunately we had the awkward conversation that let us conclude mutually conclude that the road-trip idea was batshit crazy. Thus evening saw us capping a quiet day by dressing up a notch and navigating the historic streets of Center City PhilaPA to get down […]
Duffield’s, Sewell
I love Duffield’s. Every time I go to Pitman, I arrive late-afternoon or early-evening, and I’m out at Duffield’s pretty much the next day. Let me save you the trouble of blowing up this picture – it says “Duffield’s Farm, Where Jesus Is Lord”. The lord is watching over the vegetables, and he’s watching over […]