Yup, the Delicious Link Group is getting all my lunch dollar$ this week. Straight up. Seriously, I think the whole basement of Tokyo Station’s Kitchen Street is controlled by this same shadowy organization. Well, they’ve got a bit more style than many other restaurant groups, so I’ll let them pass. Shigenoi is a bait 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 […]
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 […]
Onodera, Kagurazaka
Given that we’ve already posted a glowing review on Onodera from our first visit, we shan’t spend too much time rehashing. In fact, we feel a little bad violating our rule about not posting multiple times on one restaurant, but this place is so good we just gotta do it…looking back, I see that a […]
Toritetsu, Otemachi (とり鉄)
Incredibly attentive readers will remember that we’ve visited an outpost of the Toritetsu Empire before, in the wilds of Inner Mongolia. Lest they take us too much to task for this repetition, we’d like to point out that we’re not opposed to reviewing multiple branches of the same chain (case in point, Sushi Zanmai), and […]
Sabou Oiwake, Tokyo (茶房追分,東京駅)
Fresh from overdosing on chicken, I realized that lunch with Volleyball had been scheduled in for some time. He had overdosed on pork last night, so we set out in a healthy frame of mind. Wandering past the south-of-Eitai-dori options under the tracks, I was struck by the fact that nothing looks good there. It […]
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No-tenki, Tokyo (呑うてんき,八重洲)
Evidently a bit of linguistic confusion on this one – the dictionary doesn’t want to admit that the titular phrase exists, and one noted expert around the office says “There’s no such word.” It’s a slight bastardization of a phrase for ‘happy-go-lucky’, which I guess is as good a phrase as any to convey the […]
Inaba Toshiro, Marunouchi (いなば十四郎、丸ビル３５階)
My friends, I’ve figured out what it is about the 35th floor of Maru Biru. It’s 35% overpriced. Everything. Aux Amis I fell for (errr, twice, but the second time wasn’t my idea); Hiro Centro I was edgy about but it was recommended (not talking to her any more); Mango Tree is patently overpriced – […]
Sasaoka, Marunouchi (恵比寿笹岡、新丸５階)
High-end restaurants in Japan do funny things. [When I say ‘high-end’, I only mean at the plebian end of the high market, the part I can access. There’s presumably a whole world over that level that I gots no idea about.] One I’ve noticed recently is opening a larger branch store in a more glamorous […]
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Yonemura, Ginza (よねむら)
Kick. Ass. Food. Granted, EOITwJ doesn’t write about a lot of it, but here it is. Yonemura doesn’t show up convincingly on radar – you won’t find a lot of reviews other than these, and the web site is weak (I especially like how the first review mentions that it’s the writer’s first time to […]