Yakiniku at Ijobang in Shirokane-Takanawa
Yakiniku is always delicious. The only shame is that it’s too pricey to go often. This time a get-together came up out of the blue, and after mulling over where to go, I settled on this place, which I re…
Yakiniku is always delicious. The only shame is that it’s too pricey to go often. This time a get-together came up out of the blue, and after mulling over where to go, I settled on this place, which I re…
I came to Tokyo on a business trip, but pretty much all I remember is the eating. I’m thinking of posting it bit by bit. The first place I went on day one was Hatsushima, a small izakaya in Shinbashi. It…
Restaurant Hara is a French restaurant in my neighbourhood. It seems to have opened only about a month ago, but it’s always full, so I made a proper reservation and went with a friend. Wine and glasses …
We left Arita at 3 p.m. I figured leaving around then would get us there by evening, but I got that wrong. Past Fukuoka there was a traffic jam that dragged on for about 70 km. It would’ve been a lot eas…
For dinner in Fukuoka I picked Kiharu, an izakaya famous for its saba (mackerel) dishes. It’s not far from Nakasu. Maybe it’s because I’ve turned into a middle-aged guy, but lately I keep cra…
In Japan, pretty much every neighbourhood has at least one good place for eel, tonkatsu and sushi. Partly for that reason, and partly because it isn’t eel season right now, I didn’t particularly wa…
I’d just arrived in Fukuoka and had drunk a bit too much the night before, so breakfast obviously had to be tonkotsu ramen. After some thought about where to go, I headed to the Ichiran in Nakasu-Kawabat…
To keep the high from the whale meat I had at lunch going, I headed to a whale-cuisine specialist I’d bookmarked in advance. As is so often the case with places like this, it was tucked into a corner of …
For Golden Week I did a northern Kyushu trip again, same as last year. The first stop was Shimonoseki, a place Koreans know from the Treaty of Shimonoseki. In Japan it’s famous for winter fugu, but, well…
This visit was more than two weeks ago now. I’d heard that Kokoan (香古庵), a sister restaurant of an onsen ryokan in the Daisen area of Tottori Prefecture, opened back in February, so I went to see what it…
At long last I’ve found the time to sort out the rest of the photos from my Osaka/Kyoto trip. This time I was traveling with my elders, so we ended up eating at department-store restaurant floors not onc…
I’ve had way too much work this week (damn you, Hibernate) and couldn’t give the blog any attention. Milking the Kyoto travelogue for a whole month is starting to prick my conscience. The busy stre…