Echire at Marunouchi Brick Square
It was a short trip, but I found a gap in the schedule and went back to Echire, the butter pastry shop. It’s been open for quite a while now, yet it’s still popular enough that you have to queue on…
It was a short trip, but I found a gap in the schedule and went back to Echire, the butter pastry shop. It’s been open for quite a while now, yet it’s still popular enough that you have to queue on…
I’ve been keeping up a pattern of fine dining by day and izakaya-hopping by night. This day, too, I’d heard about a delicious izakaya that competes on shellfish dishes alone, so I went to check it …
Sant Pau in Nihonbashi is the Tokyo branch of a restaurant that holds three Michelin stars in Spain. It’s a famous place with two stars in the Tokyo Michelin guide too, and as you’d expect with tho…
I went back for another try at Mitsumasa, where last time I left without eating properly. This time I wanted to enjoy the real taste of pork skewers. Starting with beer Summer is hot, so all the more reason …
I first heard the name Restaurant Narisawa a long time ago, but I never felt a strong urge to go. It’s not bad value for the price, but if you only tried to hit the must-visit special restaurants (Quinte…
The theme of this Tokyo trip was Spanish food. If you want to eat Spanish food, the right thing is obviously to go to Spain, but with my line of work there is no way I could ever get enough time off to spend t…
Plenty of places sell tofu, but only a handful serve tofu that is genuinely delicious. In fact, lots of people go through life without ever knowing that truly delicious tofu exists. On this Tokyo trip, a frien…
I’m gathering up my posts about 2chef, a restaurant I’m always indebted to, and putting them up together. I go there so often that I can’t post each visit separately. Tomato and anchovy pasta…
Second stop on my naengmyeon pilgrimage. Anyone who knows, knows: this place is hugely famous in this genre, but I never had any reason to go to Chungmuro, so I just hadn’t made it here until now. The f…
I’m pretty fond of naengmyeon, so I thought I’d been to all the famous places, but when I actually checked, there were still a few I’d never tried. So I made a plan to use this chance to visi…
Seongsan Wang Galbi is a bit hard to find, but it has a reputation for being delicious. Posts about it have been popping up since the start of the year, but for a Gangnam dweller like me it’s just so far…
Summer means naengmyeon. Woo Lae Oak is one of Korea’s signature Pyeongyang naengmyeon houses. When I first started eating Pyeongyang naengmyeon, the places I went to were Eulji Myeonok and Woo Lae Oak, …