I heard there was a great offal specialist in Kameido, so I went to check it out. It opens at 5:30, but it is so popular that you have to arrive before 5 just to make the first seating. I missed the first seat…
I heard a rumor that Pyonpyonsha, a naengmyeon place at Tokyo Skytree, has its roots in Pyongyang naengmyeon, so I went to check it out. Hmm.. it turned out to be a huge disappointment, though. T.T The table …
I stopped by Endo Risaburo Shoten, one of the best-known wine bistros in Tokyo’s old shitamachi district. The plan was just to have a casual drink. I dropped in late on a weekend evening and the place wa…
Spice Cafe in Oshiage is a place with a Tabelog score in the 4.0s that serves a curry course meal. It is so popular that you cannot get in without a reservation. For that score the prices are on the cheap side…
I had some business at Tokyo Skytree, so I stopped by. Bean sweets from Fève Fève is a new shop by chef Tsujiguchi, famous for Mont St. Clair. You could call it a modern take on the traditional Japanese con…
Lately I have been eating dessert at home a lot more. To tidy things up, I am posting them all in one go. Snob and Exquis from Au Bon Vieux Temps Both are cakes I had tried once before, and I bought them ag…
On my way home I happened to stumble on a Cacao Sampaka cafe. I go to the Cacao Sampaka near Tokyo Station fairly often, but I had no idea they had opened a cafe this big in Aoyama. It does not look like much …
With spring here I felt like going out somewhere, and while wondering where to go I decided to try Blue Note Tokyo, which I had never been to. Honestly the point was going to Blue Note Tokyo itself, so I did n…
Asahi Beer has its headquarters in Asakusa, and there are quite a few restaurants run directly by the company. 23banchi Cafe is one of them, and with head-office staff stationed there, the beer can only be goo…
Hikifune is a neighborhood one or two train stops from Asakusa. There is a well-regarded cake shop there called Avignon, so I set aside a little time on the weekend and went over. The front entrance The sig…
The number one soba restaurant in Tokyo on Tabelog is in Asakusa. It is a handmade soba specialist called Daikokuya, a place I had tried a few times but always gave up on because the line was so long. This tim…
I had already reserved Moriizo chocolates for Valentine’s Day this year, but another chocolate looked so good that I simply could not resist buying it. It is called Honey Bee Garden, a Valentine’s …