Mont St. Clair, a Cake Shop in Jiyugaoka
After lunch I had a bit of time to kill before dinner, so I made the rounds of some of Tokyo’s famous sweets shops. The first stop was Mont St. Clair. It didn’t take as long to get there as I’…
After lunch I had a bit of time to kill before dinner, so I made the rounds of some of Tokyo’s famous sweets shops. The first stop was Mont St. Clair. It didn’t take as long to get there as I’…
I’d planned a trip to Japan over the holiday stretch from late March to early May, so this time I was able to book ahead at a place rumoured to be really hard to get into. A local foodie who lives there …
The afternoon tea set at the Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo’s lounge is one of the best in Tokyo, so it’s always popular and famously hard to book. The wide-open view over the city from the 38th floor is…
Six-star hotels usually don’t include meals, but the plan I booked this time had breakfast included in the room rate, so every morning I ate at the restaurant on the 38th floor. For non-guests the prices…
On a Sunday evening in Tokyo there’s honestly nowhere to go except Western restaurants. I guess the message is: don’t go out on a Sunday night, stay home with your family. But my friend wanted soba…
On Sundays there’s not really anywhere good to eat apart from Western restaurants. So the place I picked was Miyagawa Honten, the unagi shop on the restaurant floor of Matsuya department store in Ginza. …
Restaurant Quintessence is one of the French restaurants in Tokyo with three Michelin stars. With L’Osier in Ginza recently closing its doors for a while, the three-star French places are now down to jus…
I’ve always been the type who can sleep anywhere, but on this trip I actually put some thought into where to stay. Of all the six-star hotels in Tokyo, the Mandarin was the one I most wanted to try, and …
I took advantage of the long weekend for a quick trip to Tokyo. With the earthquake, the tsunami, the nuclear plant crisis and everything else, these are unsettled times, but since I’d made the trip anyw…
Work was at its busiest, but Children’s Day fell in the middle of it, so I went to the new outlet mall that just opened in Paju, partly to get myself moving. Everyone else apparently drives there, but be…
On Sunday night I dropped by 2chef to order a plate of pasta and have a drink. 2chef is a comfortable place, but it’s no longer close to home, so getting there is a bit awkward. Then again, the good rest…
Sadong Myeonok looks like a place with some history behind it, but it wasn’t where I originally meant to go. I’d come out downtown that day to stop by the Shilla Duty Free, and the place I planned …