Brisk Stand won first place at the 2025 Japan Burger Championship, and lately it’s been opening branches all over the place. One opened in Nagoya not long ago, so I went to check it out. The place The l…
Santa is a well-known ramen shop in Hamamatsu, and they’ve opened a spin-off that specializes in thin-noodle ramen. The table Pretty standard setup. The ramen It feels a lot more refined than the origi…
Here’s another round. Puré gummies This one’s a slightly different flavor from the usual, but it’s still pretty good. Kin-chan Noodle At 105 yen, that’s a really good price for the qu…
This place has a really long name, but it’s a bakery called Chevre, and its thing is baking bread in a wood-fired stone oven. Here’s the place. Well.. it’s a popular spot, so I figured they&…
Niko Tora in Hamamatsu is a ramen shop that only opens once in a while. Maybe once or twice a month? Apparently their main business is a yakiniku restaurant, and they do ramen as a special weekend thing. It fe…
Here’s a mixed bag of food for you. Dubai chewy cookies So they come in this form now too. Single malt Yoichi and Miyagikyo You can find them just about anywhere these days. Feels like the boom is slow…
These days I find places to eat on Google Maps. Out in the countryside you use Google Maps a lot when driving, and the spots where Google Maps users often park are, by definition, places lots of people go, so …
There’s this “Japanese supermarket tier list” going around on social media lately, and Bio Atsumi sits pretty close to the top of it. It isn’t cheap, but it’s packed with fun ingr…
I’ve been to the Adachi Museum of Art several times in the past. It’s way too far from where I live now, but every so often its works go on show somewhere else. On the way The weather was lovely. …
Whenever I’m anywhere near Mikkabi, I end up at Natsume almost on autopilot. There just aren’t many places this good for a cup of coffee. Chiffon cake It looks a bit scary, but it tastes like a re…
Posting a mix of photos this time. You can spot Miyagikyo in there. The lineup of Japanese whisky has really grown. Sky Just a random shot. Na no Nai Ramen, the “nameless ramen” It’s a yat…
Menya Maeda is in Mikkabi. Most people probably won’t know where Mikkabi is, but there’s a big lake called Lake Hamana, and around it there are lots of good spots like cafes, and this ramen shop is…