18 months into the game, there are still plenty of restaurants to try out there, and this day featured a mixed cast of characters including Koala, Ponkan and Zoner; rare to see them all together, eh? This is one of the ones on the 5th floor of Shin Maru that just never quite appealed enough […]
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Tanaka, Ito (たなか、伊東、静岡県)
From somewhere, I got the idea that Ito city would be good for a several-hour walk around on the way home from Izu. Minus the ‘several’, that statement could sorta be true, but much less so on Sundays. As usual I spent too much time obsessing over which place to visit for our obligatory fish-and-rice […]
Mikura, Atami (海蔵、熱海)
Woo hoo, weekend away. It’s been some time, eh? Atami, at the head of the Izu penninsula, is called the ‘Monaco of Japan’. Really, my colleague tried to convince me of this. I laughed at the time, then I went there…and I still think it’s funny. Sure there are dramatic hills falling down to a […]
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Otsukiya, Kanda (おつき屋)
Much in the same way that Alvin Lucier famously once got wicked stoned and recorded himself sitting in a room for several hours, today I came up with the idea of mangling meaning through recursive translation. Of course if this were done by a good human translator, it could come out sensibly. So let’s leave […]
Hannariya, Nihonbashi (はんなりや)
It’s always a sad day when someone leaves a great firm like mine. It’s even worse when it’s one of the very few people that you can really count as a friend. I wanted to find something a little special for this lunch with Linji; Hannariya turned out to be really nice, but not that […]
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Mimasuya, Kanda (みますや)
There’s no way you can not love a neighborhood institution, especially when it’s been going since Meiji 38 (1906, methinks), and especially when the neighborhood is Kanda? Even the most casual reader should know how fond I am of Kanda as a lunch destination; it’s something about the way just enough glimpses of the area’s former […]
Torikaku, Otemachi (とりかく)
Neuuu, this was not the most brilliant fried chicken lunch I’ve ever had. Nor was the conversation particularly inspiring (sorry You). Combination of the weather, obsessing over the financial markets, and the indignity of having lunch at 11:30 (back at my desk by 12:15 – good lord the afternoon was long). Uhhhhh…Torikaku is very utilitarian, […]
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Hanamiya, Kanda (葉菜海家)
This place was identified by a guy in Legal, who told my colleague from Retail, who took me there today, and we ate a lot. It’s a little dark and grubby, but they say it has a line out the door most of the time (coincidentally, it’s right across the street from Bistro Ishikawatei, which […]
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Kisaku, Kanda (吉作)
Still plenty of things hiding in plain sight in Kanda…this place is across the street from the chirashidon place of 2 weeks ago; somehow I never looked at it before. They have half a dozen lunch sets, all of which are normal and yet diverse. For example, I had the sashimi set, which came with […]
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Shunsaian, Otemachi (旬采庵)
While this was a truly dull lunch food-wise, I can think of a few positive things to say about this place: – It’s cheap. I mean, $7 lunch sets cheap. – It’s pretty cool that it’s mainly private rooms, so you can sit in horikotatsu and mellow out on your lunch hour. – The rice […]