Boy, things change a lot if you don’t go to a specific building for a while. For this business lunch, the person I was meeting suggested Trattoria da Cibo. I said “Oh sure, the pizza is good there,” and he said “No, that’s the pizza place. This one is separate but on the same floor.” […]
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Grape Gumbo, Ginza
Remember last year when I went to Mardi Gras? Always meant to go back, but the pressures of needing to try new places have thus far kept me from their door. Grape Gumbo is the father-restaurant of Mardi Gras, with a similar menu and style, so I feel like I’ve been back now – new […]
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Zoogunzoo, Shibuya
You wanna see what a night-in-the-life is like? In addition to having a long and relaxed night on the turps with Swannie, I took pictures along the way. If I haven’t mentioned this before, I think of this blog as something I’ll be able to look back on with amusement when I’m in my dotage, so […]
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 […]
Viron, Marunouchi
Viron probably holds the title of ‘most visited restaurant in Tokyo’ for me. Weird, isn’t it? You can tell how much I like it because, when I started this blog, before I started writing about the restaurants that I was visiting, I wrote about a few things that were lodged in my memory, and Viron […]
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Koyu II, Nezu (呼友)
Waiting on the subway platform for McNoonan to show up after work, I thought to myself “There’s nothing like a little goth-loli-spotting to get the evening started right.” Nor is there anything like a Black Punch to get this partee started, but where we were going, there’s no black punch. Just deserted streets where it […]
Brasserie Paul Bocuse la Musee
Years I’ve meant to go to this place. Years. How long has it been open? Even before that I wanted to go there. Even before that. Why? It’s inside the museum, but more importantly it’s located on top of a giant inverted concrete cone in the lobby. If you sit near the edge, it’s sort […]
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 […]
Betterave, Shibuya
I had been meaning to call the Peafowl to go out during Golden Week. Specifically I was thinking of the 30th, but I started thinking I should rest between some of the other engagements and never called. Then Peacock called in the morning of the 30th, and with a smidgen of serendipity, all was set. […]
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Ichi, Roppongi (いち)
Not exactly what I was expecting, getting a recommendation for a very nice course kappou place in the back of Roppongi from Koala, who I always think of as a Korean / Chinese / hotpot specialist. But very nice it was indeed, and along with several peafowl I enjoyed it very much. This place is under-reported […]