Salon de Thé Au Grenier d’Or, a Cake Café in Kyoto
Dinner was great, so as always we headed off to a dessert place. ^_^ I’d heard there was a café famous for its cakes near Nishiki Market, the so-called “Kitchen of Kyoto,” so we walked there …
Dinner was great, so as always we headed off to a dessert place. ^_^ I’d heard there was a café famous for its cakes near Nishiki Market, the so-called “Kitchen of Kyoto,” so we walked there …
While deciding where to go in Kyoto, I settled on Japanese for lunch and Italian for dinner. There’s really only one Italian place that represents Kyoto, so that choice was easy, but there are so many fa…
My friend suggested that since we’d come all the way to Kobe, we really ought to try Kobe beef. Truth is, you don’t need to eat Kobe beef in Kobe. The cattle aren’t even raised in Kobe itself…
After lunch I headed to a dessert shop! But maybe because the dessert I’d had just before was so good, it didn’t wow me all that much. Est Royal 2eme: a Gascogne with apple and plum It’s a …
When you think of good food in Kobe, the first thing that comes to mind is the cluster of French restaurants in Kitano. These places, with that cute, polished Kobe sensibility showing in both the food and the …
An old friend was coming to visit Osaka, so I offered to be the guide. The main goal of this trip was Kyoto rather than Osaka, but since we were also planning to swing by Kobe while we were at it, we booked ou…
This April, the Shangri-La Hotel, the world-famous hotel chain, opened in a building near Tokyo Station. I always crash at a friend’s place in Tokyo, so I’ve never had reason to pay attention to To…
I went for lunch with a friend to Daifukuya, which has been getting a lot of buzz in Akabane lately. Daifukuya is apparently part of the Setagaya group. I like the Setagaya shops and have been visiting them wh…
It was a short weekend trip so things were pretty hectic, and I had drinks with friends lined up for the evening, so I decided to keep dinner simple with a bowl of ramen. There are two ramen shops that have be…
Shintomicho is a neighborhood roughly halfway between Ginza and Tsukiji, and by its very nature it’s packed with countless bars and great places to eat. Yuzukamiya is the soba shop the locals rave about …
Henri Charpentier is a famous dessert shop that has been in business in Ginza for 40 years. Lately it has kept opening branches, mostly in department-store food halls, and unusually, even those branches get ve…
June was a really busy month for me. There was work, of course, but I was also exercising and dieting at the same time, and I got hooked on reading as well. So I neglected my eating out and barely touched the …