Another day of this week, another visit to Muromachi Coredo. Today, working clockwise brought us to Bou-ya (and I say ‘us’ because I was pleasantly accompanied by Ponkan). I was super-pleased to realize that this is a branch of the well-rated yakiniku-ya I wanted to try during the Hongo project, but found them closed and […]
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Magoroku, Monzennakacho (深川 孫六)
This was very pleasing. Very very pleasing – brilliant yakitori plus game meat and jizake. How did I manage to go this long without trying it? Mainly it was my unreasonable anti-chicken bias. I’m recently converted, and now there are several more chicken places I should hit around town. You can keep your everything-but-the-cluck Birdland […]
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Pure Yakiniku, Kanda (焼肉 ぴゅあ)
Right across the street from Eiki sushi, this gets the same distinction – one of the most-walked-by places I’ve never visited. That all changed for the better today when Todd and Tucker were the guinea pigs for yet another expedition to Kanda and a new place. Not that we ate guinea pigs. It’s all meat […]
Kotora, Sendai (仔虎)
So you go up to Sendai, and what’s it famous for? Well, of course there’s Matsushima Bay, but after half a day of getting up there, poking around, and getting back, you’re left with plenty of time. The other thing that’s famous in Sendai is beef. Specifically, beef tongue. Now, you can get tongue in […]
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Dedesuke, Ginza (でですけ)
Typhoon? Nuts to that. Lunch time. I was so keen to do something different that I took the train to Ginza. Where it was raining. Hard. Dedesuke is not necessarily a promising place – if you look over the door, you’ll see the first word is hormone…and you should know that that word means nothing […]
Sakaiya Food Hall, Hikifune (サカイ食堂,曳舟)
Hoodwinked, cruelly tricked, and disgusted. And maybe a little proud. If you’re a foreigner, and you like to say “I can eat anything”, there’s one hurdle that may be too far, and you may just have to be pressured into hurdling that hurdle with cheap booze and fast conversation. Unfortunately, all that’s on the other […]
Kyushu Otokomichi, Ebisu (九州男道)
Chain izakayas. Do you think I hate them? I don’t. They fill a niche, and are fun, and the food is never bad even if it’s never surprising or exciting or different. Not liking chain izakayas is, I think, unnecessary snobbery. Despite the funny name (Kyushu Men’s Street?), you can sorta tell from the slickness […]
Han Hyang, Shibuya
How come people don’t write posts for yakiniku? Maybe because it’s always the same thing – plates of meat, cooked on a fire. Still, I liked this place, and also thought there were some interesting things worth mentioning. First off, it’s confusing from outside. The sign is HUGE, and it:s a neon shamrock on the […]
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Yamada Mongol, Kanda
Years ago I read a book by Haruki Murakami that was called ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’ in English. Aside from the funny bit about the girl’s ears, and the overall spaciness and magical quality that it had (first Murakami book I read, so it was especially memorable), I remember being struck by the statement that […]
Wansu, Ebisu
Well, Korean food is not one of my specialties, but this makes two Fridays in a row that EOITwJ has gotten all jiggy with the togarashi. This week’s event, organized by Shaft, was much more Korean than Karaya last week, which was a good (but not better) thing. The atmosphere and menu are too different […]