Toshi Yoroizuka is one of the hottest cake shops and dessert bars in Tokyo right now. I love sweets ^_^ but when I thought about it, I realized I’d barely been to any dessert places lately. What a shame&…
Ginza Tenryu is a place I’d been hearing about for ages. It’s apparently famous for serving big, tasty gyoza cheap right in the middle of Ginza, so much so that people line up for it at lunchtime. …
Every day around lunchtime I find myself wondering what to eat. When I have time I cook for myself, but with a working life that isn’t always easy. Right before lunch I happened to be searching the web a…
Asakusa is such an old neighborhood that it’s full of long-established famous restaurants, but today I didn’t come for any of those. I came all the way here to eat hamburg steak. There’s just…
I’d known for ages that Brasserie L’ecrin, the casual-dining offshoot of L’ecrin, the famous French restaurant in Ginza, was in Ueno (not that I ever had a reason to go all the way to Ueno fo…
Kanda is famous as the neighborhood where legendary soba shops like Kanda Yabu Soba and Kanda Matsuya are clustered. I heard a strong new contender called Nemurian had opened in the area, so I went to check it…
Soba is at its best in autumn when the new-harvest buckwheat comes in, but I think the time you crave it most is the middle of summer. Just like ice-cold naengmyeon. I heard there’s a specialist shop ser…
Isehiro is an 80-year-old yakitori place in Kyobashi, between Ginza and Tokyo Station. I’d heard a rumour that its lunchtime yakitori-don is the best in Tokyo, so I went to check it out. The sign ItR…
Last holiday I opened a Fritz Haag Riesling 2005, completely unplanned, just to test my new sommelier knife, and it was delicious. Fruity aromas tickling the nose, a refreshing acidity, and little bubbles popp…
I’ve lived in Tokyo for a while, but there were still quite a lot of places I’d never been to, so now that I have some time I’m getting around to visiting them. When you say Kichijoji, the fi…
It’s a treat to have a famous restaurant near home. A place called Yang, famous from all sorts of magazines and restaurant guidebooks, is just a stone’s throw from where I live. The head chef is fr…
I had a lunch date with an acquaintance in Shirokanedai. Platinum Street in Shirokanedai is lined not only with well-known famous restaurants but with plenty of hidden gems too. (For example, the three-star re…