At lunch there are two menus, the Menu Dejeuner and the Menu Gourmand, and we ordered both. Translated, Dejeuner means lunch and Gourmand means gourmet. The Dejeuner is 8,200 yen and the Gourmand is 12,300 yen…
I’m playing hooky from work on a weekday morning, and my steps feel incredibly light. Can you guess where I’m headed? The destination is in Ebisu’s Garden Place. So.. figured it out yet? It&…
At the top of the Park Hyatt in Shinjuku there’s a steakhouse called the New York Grill and a bar called the New York Bar. Both are beautifully done and the views are great, but the word is that the New …
Now the main course starts coming out. The shabu-shabu pot From the side Maybe because it’s a hotel restaurant, the design and service are top-notch. Out came Yonezawa beef, famous as a brand-name wagy…
When you travel you get curious about the hotels in the area, but when you live in a city for a long time you stop caring what hotels there are around town. Lately, since I started doing restaurant reviews, I&…
Whenever friends from Korea come to visit Tokyo, I really struggle with where to take them. I’d love to take them somewhere tasty with a nice atmosphere, but that’s easier said than done. Most visi…
Wandering around Ginza, snapping this and that. Manneken, the famous waffle shop It’s the waffle place right in the middle of Ginza that people line up for. Mind you, the shop is so tiny that there̵…
On a sunny day off I had a few errands in Ginza, and with the time left over I came to Tsukiji. Tsukiji has so many places to eat ^_^ I’m happy every time I go. The shrine in Tsukiji’s inner market…
I was wondering where to have dinner in the Marunouchi Building and headed for somewhere I could eat something light. Oyster bars are popular in Tokyo these days, and places with a similar concept have been po…
During Golden Week everywhere is packed, so it’s hard to find a spot to take a break. After wondering where to find a decent café, I headed to ig café on the 5th floor of the Shin-Marunouchi Building. It…
If I only ever had the chance to eat one meal in Tokyo, I think I’d pick this place, with a little hesitation ^_^. Kurofunetei is a yoshoku (Japanese-style Western food) restaurant near Ueno Station. Bei…
I finally went to a famous soba shop in Azabu-Juban with a tradition going back more than 200 years. Places like this are delicious pretty much 100% of the time. If a shop has survived 200 years on soba alone,…