Sumida Bar Vigor, Asakusa
Sumida Bar Vigor is a Spanish bar near my place. It sits right in front of the Skytree and stays open pretty late. I went for Valentine’s Day.. which means this post is already a month late. House-made …
Sumida Bar Vigor is a Spanish bar near my place. It sits right in front of the Skytree and stays open pretty late. I went for Valentine’s Day.. which means this post is already a month late. House-made …
Aburasoba Tsubaki is an aburasoba specialist in Ueno. It is a spin-off of Chuka Soba Tsubaki, the well-known ramen shop. The front entrance It was late, but the place was packed, and with just one person wo…
For dessert I moved on to a place called Higashi-Mukojima Coffee-ten (東向島珈琲店). I had heard it is famous for its rare cheesecake. The front entrance A cafe with a clean, tidy atmosphere. The owner seemed you…
I heard there was a cafe in a renovated old house, a pretty well-known one, near my place, so I went over for a weekend lunch. The front entrance Koguma means bear cub. That is why there is a bear on the si…
Plaisir, a cake shop in Sangenjaya, is one of the very best cake shops in Tokyo, but it is so far off the beaten path that I only just got around to going. The front entrance You get off at Sangenjaya Stati…
I heard there was a machine-made juwari (100% buckwheat) soba shop in Akihabara, so I went one weekend. The front entrance It is tucked away in a bit of a corner. If you are going out of your way, it is a f…
It was the weekend, so I headed to Omotesando for pancakes. bills is famous overseas, and in Japan it has branches in Omotesando and Odaiba. Kirin draft beer I was partly in the mood for a pleasant daytime …
As work has gotten busier, I find myself going somewhere close rather than far, and choosing places I can walk into without any planning over the buzzed-about restaurants. I suppose this is what becoming a mid…
This Valentine’s Day I heard that Takashimaya was selling a limited-edition chocolate made with Mori Izo, the shochu they call the “phantom shochu”, so I used my weekend to head over to Shinj…
C*LAB Project is a dessert shop and cafe run by Le Champ de Pierres, a French restaurant. I never expected to find such a modern-looking dessert specialist in a spot like this. The front entrance At a glanc…
There is a place in Shinjuku that sits at the top of the Tokyo dessert scene with a single item on the menu, a gateau chocolat, so I went to check it out. It is called Ken’s Cafe, near Shinjuku Gyoen, an…
There is a nice little lunch spot near the office, so I drop in for lunch pretty often. It is a place called Arie, tucked away in a back alley with a cafe-like atmosphere. It is a neighborhood eatery, so there…