Mont Blanc, the hamburg steak specialist in Asakusa, is a famous place. This time I stopped by for dinner. Miso soup Nothing out of the ordinary. Hamburg steak There were several kinds to choose from, and…
Sushizanmai has been all over the news since the start of the year, so I dropped in for the first time in a while. When I visited the main branch in Tsukiji years ago I was really impressed, but since then the…
I went to Odaiba on a sunny weekend. Going by way of Toyosu, it turned out to be closer than I thought. The Toyosu scenery Beautiful. A great road for running. The Gundam at DiverCity Tokyo The Gundam, th…
Near Yurakucho Station in Ginza there is a small wagashi shop called Osumi Tamaya. Maybe because it has been in business in Ginza for so long, it is fairly well known. I heard they sell a limited-edition Ichig…
After the soba, I moved on to Roppongi for dessert. Le Chocolat de H is a chocolate specialty shop that Mont St. Clair, the famous patisserie in Jiyugaoka, opened in Roppongi. As you would expect in Roppongi, …
There are not many soba shops in Tokyo that open on Mondays. A friend was visiting from Korea and we thought about having soba; these days Azumabashi Yabu Soba would be my top recommendation, but where we ende…
Takaido, near Kichijoji, is far from where I live and is a quiet residential area with not much going on, so it is not somewhere you would go out of your way for, but I heard a rumor about a workshop selling T…
I was wondering where to have lunch in Kichijoji and settled on Chikurosanbo, a Chinese restaurant with a high Tabelog score. I wanted something a bit more serious than a cafe lunch. Kirin Classic Lager Fir…
I headed out to Kichijoji over the weekend. It is far from home, but every now and then I end up with a reason to go. The first stop was Satou, famous for its menchikatsu. The front of Satou The second floo…
Hardly anyone in Korea knows this, I suspect, but Asakusa has no fewer than four well-known Russian restaurants. Nowhere else in Japan, let alone Tokyo, has Russian cuisine concentrated like this, and when I l…
I was out in Hamamatsu for the day, and while wondering where to have lunch, I ended up at a Chinese restaurant I had heard was famous. The building entrance A very modern-looking building. The restaurant i…
The biggest specialty of the Hamamatsu area is unagi pie, a pastry with eel powder kneaded into it, and it sells well all over Japan. It is a bit too sweet for my taste, so I prefer other local specialties, bu…