Through a weird series of searches on the Google, I came upon this guy Nick’s post for a nice-looking restaurant specializing in mass quantities of off-cuts of good fish. And I gotta admit, I was seduced by his approach of posting only a shot of the street outside the restaurant and not its name or […]
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Izumoya, Kanda (いづもや)
Is this the eel life?Is this just fantasy?– Queen The strategy here was to save the best for last, and it seems to have worked out. This Izumoya appears to be unrelated to the (pretty good) one on the other side of the station. If you have only one meel to eet eel, (meaning you’re […]
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Tamai Anago, Kanda (あなご玉ゐ)
Rikki dont lose that number / Its the only one you own You might use it if you eel better / When you get home – Eely Dan Yet again we break the eel-shop pattern today in several slight, distinct and interesting ways (not the least of which is that the eel was damn good!). […]
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Izumoya, Kanda (いづもや、神田２丁目)
This eel’s on fireBurning down the road– Danko, Dylan Ahhhh, things roll on up in Kanda. I have to say, I was really looking forward to having a nice box of eel for lunch today! Izumoya didn’t disappoint, but I’ll certainly need to wait until Friday to give any thoughts on what your priorities should […]
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Ganesha, Kichijoji (ガネーシャカリー,ハーモニカ横丁)
I got laughed at a few times by different people for saying that going to Ganesha ‘made me feel like I was in Asia’. It bears explaining that everyone around me these days thinks Japan isn’t part of Asia, so when they use that word, they mean “All Asian countries except Japan”. There’s a lot […]
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Muromachi Sunaba, Kanda (室町 砂場)
Kanda continues to delight this hardened area lunch-eater. Today I ventured even farther afield, getting to the limits of where I can walk and return in an hour, to visit this highly-regarded soba restaurant. If you’re wondering where I got the picture (and why it’s so sunny when that’s clearly not today), I yanked it […]
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TY Harbor Brewery, Shinagawa
This review is purely for the benefit of both foreigners in Tokyo who haven’t yet been to TY Harbor. Until Saturday night, there were three of us, but I’m sad to say I’ve now departed. As shown below, getting to TY’s huge refitted warehouse from the station is very pleasant and residential if you do […]
Saudade, Shinjuku
So I went to Shinjuku to look for some shoes. Foreigner? Wear large sizes? Tired of being laughed out regular stores for having big feet, or tired of trying to make do with the one pair of daggy brown shoes they have in your size? Hikari is your place (weirdly, I think this Kutsu no […]
Yong Jiang, Nihonbashi (甬江)
Nothing like a quick Chinese dinner on the way home. You know I’m not generally in favor of Chinese dinners, but I’m certainly in favor of broadened horizons. This place is on the 4th floor of Coredo, near Da Cibo and Quatorieme. It’s a Big Menu place – folds out to 6 pages, organized into […]
Isola Smeralda, Marunouchi (丸ビル5階)
Do you get these cravings sometimes? Maybe you’re pregnant so you understand (I made some pickles on Sunday. They’re getting pretty good now!). Sometimes I eat so little meat that I just get desperate for beef. Today it was…cranberry juice. I thought Meijiya was the place to go, but they didn’t have it. In any […]