Échiré in Marunouchi
My schedule was so packed this time that I hadn’t planned on going to Échiré at all, but a certain someone asked me to, so off I went. I got there a bit early. Even on a weekday the line was long. As …
My schedule was so packed this time that I hadn’t planned on going to Échiré at all, but a certain someone asked me to, so off I went. I got there a bit early. Even on a weekday the line was long. As …
I’d booked a place to stay in Shinjuku and went out for dinner, but that neighborhood doesn’t really have that many places to eat. So I went into a chain restaurant with reasonable prices and reaso…
There are a few places I absolutely have to visit whenever I’m in Tokyo, and tri-R Shibatani is one of them. It’s a place I just love. Canelé The best canelé I’ve ever had was as good as e…
At the end of May I had to make a sudden trip to Tokyo. The schedule was so packed that I barely got to eat properly. It was a bit of a shame, but I’ll post the few good places I managed to drop by along…
One weekday evening I had to go to the Lotte Department Store in Myeongdong, and while I was wondering where nearby to have dinner, a place called Jinju Hoegwan caught my eye, so I gave it a try. The weather h…
An açaí bowl specialist has opened on trendy Garosu-gil in Sinsa-dong. I tried açaí bowls in Hawaii last year and was won over by the fresh taste that seems healthy (it isn’t really), and now there’…
One weekend I was looking for somewhere to eat along Line 3 and ended up at Chebu-dong Sujebi and Boribap. Maybe it’s the upscale-home-cooking concept, but the place seemed hugely popular with the locals…
In May, the Mugyo-dong branch of Cheung Kee Noodle House launched Cantonese dishes and ran a promotion to celebrate: 20% off the entire new seafood-restaurant menu. There was no way I was letting that chance s…
Somehow I ended up back at Eojjeoda Gage (the name means something like “the shop you happen upon”). That day, too, I dropped by Angel’s Share. Eojjeoda Gage By now it has become a very fa…
Patio 42 is a fairly well-known Italian chain. The main branch is in Seorae Village, and I’ve spotted branches all over Gangnam. I usually don’t post about franchises, but I found it curious that a…
Waffle Verviers is a place I’d love to visit often, but it’s on the opposite side of Seoul from me, so getting there takes real resolve. I kept putting it off, until I heard a while back that they&…
Around the gas station near Sinsa Station, there’s a whole cluster of 24-hour haejangguk places. It’s a unique local feature of Sinsa-dong that you won’t find anywhere else in Seoul, and mayb…