I sure do complain a lot, don’t I? Well, at least I eat a lot, so there’s usually something to talk about. The thing that reminded me that I complain too much is that I was going to complain about people who say they have ‘culinary adventures’. Going to a restaurant and paying money to […]
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Okonn, Yoyogi Uehara (おこん)
DAMN, I know how to pick restaurants. This one is a little hard to describe, but let me rattle off some ideas that describe it: secluded, stylish, simple cooking but great ingredients, and a lot of care and concern. First, the location – it’s 7 minutes walk from Yoyogi Uehara, which sounds close but feels […]
Fukahama, Fukagawa （深はま、深川）
You know it’s not often that I double-post places – it means I really like them. I really like Fukahama. When readers Kwong and Hachi came to town (and this was not a short trip by any means) and suggested we meet, I quickly thought of Fukahama as a place that does really well at […]
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Okajouki, Nakano (陸蒸気)
Well, I had promised to meet The Woodsman at 5 PM, after my bath. Due to excessive bathing and the sluggishness of mind that immediately follows it, it took me some time to get back up to the station and then start north along Nakano’s enormous, insane, pack-em-in covered shotengai. I didn’t even have a […]
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Wajin, Meguro (和神)
Now, when I was heading out to Meguro this evening, one of my colleagues thought that was a very exciting place to go. She said there are lots of old-fashioned places to eat. Before I started looking around, I had been excited too, but I found it pretty difficult to find anything that looked especially […]
Hagoromo, Kamiyamada (羽衣)
Various activities ensued after my ramen lunch and before dinner – walking to the (dead boring) temple on top of the local mountain, more photos, nap. You don’t get any pics of that. You DO get this neat picture of a retro streetlight. No processing; the colors here seem to be on accounta some confusion […]
Zubora, Nihonbashi (寿保羅)
Geez, with a second repetition already under our belts, this weekly language lunch thing could become a permanent fixture. It’s great lunching with a Retail guy too, because he knows all sorts of quirky places that I wouldn’t find. This one was on the fourth floor of a mostly unmarked building (and appeared even less-marked […]
Uobaka Santaro
Remember, Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance. A lack of adherence to this rule is how I came to be eating at this establishment, rather than it’s brother around the corner, on a day where they didn’t really even have fish. Still, would you think that a casual restaurant in Shinjuku specializing in squid would be […]
Shintaku, Murakami (新多久)
Sunday, after leaving the lovely onsen, we went a bit farther north and out almost to the coast and the town of Murakami. This is a good model for tourism in the time of swine flu; the town has really pulled together to maximize the interesting elements and create enough attractions for visitors to make […]
Ohashi, Nihonbashi (小割烹おはし,COREDO)
Today marks the 10th month of no-repeat lunching (as well as the first day of the rest of your life!). Seriously, I don’t feel any shortage of places to go, and could easily finish out the year. Remains to be seen, I guess. Including some non-repeat dinners, the blog and map now must feature close […]