A Long-Awaited Return to 2chef, Hongdae
It had been a while, so I went to 2chef with my gourmet club friends. Being the end of the year, it was hard to get a table at any restaurant, but our timing was good. Oysters Served as an appetizer. I rare…
It had been a while, so I went to 2chef with my gourmet club friends. Being the end of the year, it was hard to get a table at any restaurant, but our timing was good. Oysters Served as an appetizer. I rare…
I seem to have caught a cold lately and was not feeling great, so I went to Palsun for something nourishing. The table Being a hotel-run restaurant, the service was, needless to say, top-notch. Side dishes …
I had been hearing for a long time that there was a good Thai restaurant in Yeonnam-dong, and somehow I ended up visiting on Christmas Day. There are plenty of bars around Hongdae but not many places for lunch…
I was out in Myeongdong on a cold day and wanted something with a warm broth. So the place I went to was Misungok. The front entrance I thought I had been to Myeongdong plenty of times, but I had no idea th…
Something came up and I had to rush down to Jeonju, so I took the express bus. The train was already sold out and I could not get a seat. Once I got to Jeonju, the place I went for lunch was Waengi Kongnamul G…
Kita-Senju is on my running route, so I end up there quite a lot. This time I visited Matador, a place famous for its gyukotsu (beef bone) ramen. Matador means bullfighter, which may or may not be a fitting na…
I was wondering where to go for my weekend gourmet outing and decided on a soba place near home. It is a handmade soba shop called Tsune, and somehow it looked like it had some serious skill behind it. The se…
I went to the cinema in Kiba to see The Hobbit, a film I had personally been really looking forward to. It is one of the few IMAX 3D cinemas in Tokyo. Maybe because it is a bit out of the way, booking was easy…
After round one at Toriki, we hopped in a taxi and headed over to Bebop’s place. Rikuro Ojisan cheesecake A cake Bebop brought back from a business trip to Osaka. Similar cakes have started showing up…
A member of my gourmet club came over from Korea to visit, and after some thought about where to go, I booked a Michelin-starred yakitori place in Kinshicho. Originally I wanted to go to one of those hard-to-b…
In early December, after casting my overseas vote in Yotsuya, I was wondering where to go for dinner and ended up heading to Le Petit Mec, a bakery in Shinjuku. It is a branch of a famous Kyoto bakery, on the …
I had heard for a long time that Asakusa had a great bo-zushi (pressed sushi) specialist, and I had tried to go a few times without success, but this time I booked a few days ahead and finally made it. The sus…