Mendokoro Honda, My Neighborhood Ramen Shop
We’d run out of rice at home, so I headed out to grab something to eat. Wandering around the neighborhood, I spotted a place with a line outside, and even though I’d never seen the name before, cur…
We’d run out of rice at home, so I headed out to grab something to eat. Wandering around the neighborhood, I spotted a place with a line outside, and even though I’d never seen the name before, cur…
Today I had some business at Waseda University, so I headed over there. The area around Takadanobaba Station, in front of Waseda University, is famous as a place where countless well-known ramen shops compete …
Lots of foreign tourists in Tokyo head to Tsukiji. They come to look around the fish market and to try sushi at the source. So Tsukiji Market is always packed, and since shops aimed at tourists are mixed in wi…
Lately I’ve had a lot of reasons to stop by Ginza. (See my previous post for what that’s about..) After wrapping up my business in Ginza, I walked over to Tsukiji to eat. Tsukiji is pretty much the…
Maybe two weeks ago, a well-known member of a certain Korean wine café came to Japan to see the exhibition of original Mouton Rothschild label artwork, spotted news of a spring wine sale event in Ginza, and po…
I couldn’t be bothered to cook, so I was thinking of eating out, and decided to try a ramen shop in Ikebukuro that a friend had recommended to me a while back as being really good. It’s Kissui, a s…
It was a friend’s birthday and he wanted to go somewhere good, so on another friend’s recommendation we headed to Sciuè Sciuè, a pizza place in Aoyama. I’m honestly not sure a guy in his thir…
Nantsuttei, a ramen shop famous in Kanagawa Prefecture just south of Tokyo, opened in Ikebukuro at the end of last year. Considering that Ikebukuro is effectively the fiercest ramen battleground in Japan, that…
A friend visiting from Korea said that since he was in Tokyo, he wanted some proper fine dining at a good French place, so off we went. It has a good reputation but isn’t a particularly famous restaurant…
It’s really warmed up lately. Mornings and evenings are still a bit chilly, but the midday sun is warm enough that it’s practically spring. On a day like this I just couldn’t stay home, so I …
It’s been ages since I posted a place that isn’t actually good.. I happened to end up eating near Shinjuku Gyoen, and this is the restaurant I walked into. The food was very ordinary. The Marui dep…
I met up in Shibuya with a friend visiting from Korea. We couldn’t decide where to go, then I heard that Komagata Dozeu, the loach restaurant where I’d had a really great meal before, had opened a …