Waengi Kongnamul Gukbap, Jeonju
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…
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…
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…
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…
One weekday evening I went to Ohashi, famous as one of Tokyo’s three great nikomi (stewed offal) specialists. I had already been to Kishidaya in Tsukishima and Yamariki in Morishita, so this meant visiti…
I heard that the hottest ramen shop in Tokyo right now is in Shinkoiwa, so one day I quite literally ran there. It is about 7 to 8 km from Asakusa, but maybe because the running route is so well laid out, I go…
Taimeian, a soba shop in Ginza, was the place I most wanted to visit this winter. It falls well short of being called the best soba shop, and sharing tables with strangers is just the norm here, but every time…
I had a lunch get-together, so we went to Tofuya Ukai. The tofu is delicious, and the Japanese garden is gorgeous too. The garden This was back in autumn. The weather was just perfect. The table setting O…
Kurofunetei might just be the place with the longest line in Ueno on weekends. This time too, I started queuing an hour early and only just got in. That said, you can write your name down and wait somewhere el…
When I head out for lunch in Hamamatsucho, there are two restaurants that always have a line. One is Echigoya, where I went this time, and the other is a place called Yamaya that serves all-you-can-eat mentaik…