Kagurazaka is a little…bewitching. It’s the small, dark alleys, packed with the promise of exclusive Japanese-style dining where you need an introduction and a 3rd-generation fortune to get in. For the rest of us, there are plenty of interesting places tucked away off the main street (both behind and above). You just have to work […]
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Imonokura, Otemachi (芋の蔵、オアゾ６階)
The quest continues, my friends. As we enter the third week of March, marking more or less 10 weeks of Otemachi, we are proud and a little embarassed to report that EOITwJ has not, in fact, EO at the same Otemachi dining outlet twice. Unless you count the desk-lunch bento from Bamboo, but we don’t […]
Kushi Kushi, Maebashi (串くし)
What kind of place is Maebashi? One of the bigger buildings that I could see from my hotel was called Maebashi City Hall, and I’ll leave it to the katakana readers to interpret シティーホール for the rest… Honestly, the biggest remaining industry in Maebashi seems to be clubs, but even the best clubs have a […]
Uguisu, Maebashi
DISCLAIMER: This post has very little to do with food. It’s more of a disjointed travelogue about a mediocre country town. And it’s not even much of that. But it IS long… The last post (delivered via mobile!) may have been a bit confusing if anyone was paying attention. I decided a quick overnight trip […]
Sakura no Mi, Maebashi
So many things in Japan are just wrong…like the talk show that I’m watching while I wait for my yakisoba here in beautiful downtown Maebashi. They seem to be doing ‘weird body facts’, and had a guy trying to eat udon while standing on his head in front of an xray machine so they could […]
Oteru, Monzennakacho (お照)
The personal email issues are almost solved, my friends. The IT team is starting to get things under control. After Ojisan and I left Hanabishi, I thougt I was going peacefully home. It was not to be, as he had his claws into me and insisted that I join him at another geisha-run place. This […]
Hanabishi, Monzennakacho (花菱)
EOITwJ is not dead, my friends, merely having computing problems. Thanks for your kind wishes. There is now an unfortunately huge backlog of eating out ‘experiences’ to get through, from Tuesday night, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Argh. Hanabishi turned out to be more of a history lesson than a culinary extravaganza, but since it […]
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Nenohi, Otemachi (ねのひ, Oazo 6th)
Someone wiser than myself once said “You get what you pay for”. This has been repeated ad naseum but still holds water, as recent Otemachi dining experience has shown. Fortunately there are still gradations within the spectrum of getting what you pay for, and today’s lunch was a good example of paying a healthy amount […]
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Aji-Ichii, Otemachi (櫟)
Cleverly exploiting the advantages of Otemachi (The Underground City) to avoid pissing rain and the general malaise on the streets, Lin-ji and I migrated through the long, marbled halls of the Otemachi building, finding no open seats in restaurants, but only lines of hopeful patrons longer even than this sentence. We ended up confused and […]
Onodera, Kagurazaka (おの寺)
Welcome back to another exhaustive installment of Eating Out In Tokyo. My camera was on fine form last night, so you can get a good idea of the food at the second highly-recommended washoku place I visited this weekend. Onodera is hidden in plain sight, on the fourth floor of a small building in the […]