The happy days are over, folks. As of this week, technology issues have removed my ability to post at will. I’ll continue to post relentlessly on indiscriminately-selected dining venues, but the updates may not make it live in the afternoons. And they may be shorter and even more typo-ridden.Today’s venue is anything but indiscriminately selected. […]
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Hazu Sushi, Mitsukoshimae (寿司筈、三越前)
Sometimes the most tenuous things link us together in this beautiful dance called life. For instance, today I ended up at a restaurant just because there was empty space on my map and I thought it would be fun to explore a little. If the food had been better I could talk about serendipity, but […]
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Chez Tomo, Shirogane
Ahhh, it’s been simply ages that I’ve been thinking of going to this place. I suppose I had heard of it, but then I ran across it one night while walking randomly around after work (when you worked at the one of 2008’s most spectacular failures, you’ve got plenty to walk and think about). And […]
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Osainotame, Tokyo (為御菜,東京駅キチンストリート)
Old-time food? Well, that’s what the man said. You pay your money and you take your chances. I enjoyed this place, in a healthful and cleansing sort of way that seemed appropriate after a long weekend of eating. In some way they’re trying to recreate Edo food. I think. They also make you getcher shoes […]
Katsugen, Tokyo (かつ玄)
Over the past few years, I’ve actually come to believe the pseudo-medical concept that your body will ‘tell you what to eat’. If I eat nothing but vegetables for a few days, I develop single-minded urges for meat. Despite some obvious meat consumption over the weekend (I remember something about stewed pork belly not 12 […]
Suju Dining, Marunouchi (酢重)
Today’s lunch featured a recurring character, Ding, who announced unannounced that a new character would be joining the show. Hilarity was bound to ensue! We’ll call him Ricky. Actually, I was a little trepidational since Ricky isn’t a regular cast member, and irregular cast members could be inclined toward disgruntlifaction when faced with my starting-to-get-really-weird […]
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Dom Pierre Express Curry, Tokyo
A really odd set of connections on this one. Perignon is an expensive French restaurant in the northernmost wastes of Ginza (east side). They have a cake shop, in fact two if you count the small shop attached to their bakery, in the greater Monzennakacho area (and one in Aoyama). They also have a series […]
Raj, Marunouchi
Hugo (or Julito, as we like to call him, being in a perpetually Spanish frame of mind these days) was in The City for only a few days, and thus the old team resolved to spend a bit of time together. Bizarrely, our attempt to simplify matters while still meeting his request for ‘simple Japanese […]
West Park Cafe, Marunouchi
Mmmmmm, Roti. Oh wait, we don’t work in Roppongi any more. West Park Cafe is probably the closest one can get to the Roti Roppongi experience around here (the old Roti, before they went all black and mirrored). They even describe themselves as an Authentic American-Style restaurant. We all had burger sets, how about I […]
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Arossa, Ginza (Velvia 8)
Central Otago. What a great place. Some of my favorite people have been Central Otagans. And when I think of it, I’m inescapably reminded of crashing Jake and Kristen’s honeymoon in Queenstown, cruising around on quad bikes in the hills outside town, and stopping off at the Cardrona Hotel for beers on the way home. […]