Salvatore Cuomo, a Pizza Place in Shinjuku
I meant to update at least once a week, but it just isn’t working out that way. That’s the downside of freelancing: when work gets busy or doesn’t go as planned, you can’t take a break….
I meant to update at least once a week, but it just isn’t working out that way. That’s the downside of freelancing: when work gets busy or doesn’t go as planned, you can’t take a break….
If you ask which restaurant is the most famous in Karuizawa, it would probably be the French place Auberge de Primavera. Not only did it appear in The Drops of God, it makes it into most of the gourmet guidebo…
I went to Karuizawa to catch autumn a little early. I had a feeling this autumn would slip by before I had a chance to enjoy it. It took exactly an hour from home. I had no idea the Shinkansen was this fast. T…
It’s Chuseok and a long weekend, so everyone’s in a holiday mood, but I was so busy with work that I couldn’t go anywhere and spent the whole day staring at a monitor. I enjoy the work, but l…
Nezu is a neighborhood behind Ueno Park. I’d heard there was a great udon place there, so I went on a Monday, only to find that every single shop in the area closes on Mondays. Just like how all the shop…
I suspect not many people know there’s a huge garden in Shinjuku. About a 15-minute walk from the South Exit of Shinjuku Station, there’s a place called Shinjuku Gyoen. It used to be an imperial ga…
I’ve barely been able to go out to good restaurants lately, and it’s a bit of a letdown even to me. Work is so busy that I just don’t have time to head out anywhere far for a meal. The only t…
Even for someone like me who only picks the tasty places, there are times when I have to settle for a so-so meal somewhere that isn’t a foodie spot. It’s always one of two situations: either there&…
It’s been raining nonstop for a while and work has been hectic (I think I pulled all-nighters about a week straight..), so I couldn’t get out at all. Whenever I took a short break from the mountain…
Nakano is one of my favourite areas in Tokyo. It’s a residential neighbourhood where lots of people who work around Shinjuku live, so it has a calm vibe, prices are low and there’s plenty of shoppi…
I don’t usually watch much TV, but last month, while I was living in a hotel thanks to a friend’s help, I caught a show picking the best mango pudding in Tokyo. It’s sold at the boutique-and-…
For the first time in a while I had some CDs to buy, so I headed over to the Kanda / Ochanomizu / Jimbocho area. While thinking about where to have lunch, I decided on Restaurant Shichijo, a yoshoku (Western-s…