pour pour pour, a cocktail bar near Seoul Station
Apparently it’s read “pour pour pour.” I’d known for a while that Hongju had opened a bar, but I had no idea it was near Seoul Station. This neighborhood really is hot right now. A plac…
Apparently it’s read “pour pour pour.” I’d known for a while that Hongju had opened a bar, but I had no idea it was near Seoul Station. This neighborhood really is hot right now. A plac…
One thing led to another and I ended up in Shibuya. A view like this.. Shibuya never changes. A place like this It’s down in the PARCO basement, and the queue is pretty long. I turned up after the lunc…
“Dosanko” means someone from Hokkaido. Dosanko is actually a really common name for a ramen shop — there are ones all over the country — so I had never paid it much attention. Turns out this one is…
Yamamototei is a Japanese restaurant that gets a lot of tourists. It sits in a spot called Bentenjima in Hamamatsu and serves fresh seafood. This area is proper countryside, so it’s a bit surprising that…
Jumelles 29 is a French restaurant, and in Japanese the name is read “Jumelles nijukyu”. It has been on my Kyoto restaurant list for ages, and since it has kept a high ranking year after year I fig…
Finding a good place to eat in Arashiyama isn’t easy, and plenty of them don’t take reservations, so after some agonising I settled on a soba restaurant. The walk there It’s Arashiyama, but …
I’d heard the breakfast buffet at Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion was excellent, so I booked a table. First, a lap around the room. Looks promising. It opens at 7, but if you turn up right at opening the…
Goraebul is a seafood specialist where the prices are on the high side but the food absolutely delivers. It is all private rooms, so it works well for a group dinner too. The place Honestly, from the outside …
I heard a shop specialising in really good tigrés had opened, so I made the trip out to Yeonsinnae. This kind of place Honestly, even with a map in hand I walked right past it. It just isn’t the sort of…
Samsigi Gamjatang.. the name is what it is, but I heard the food was good, so I went to have a look. It counts as Yangjae, but it is closer to Maebong Station. The place It is an enormous place and it was pac…
The cake shop at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Nihonbashi sells an incredible cake. It is called KUMO, and everyone says the queue is so long that it is hard to get one. KUMO It means “cloud” in Japanese. Th…
Rousokuya is so famous that you probably already know about it. The entrance By the way, rousoku means candle. The entrance They also do a chilled tantanmen as a seasonal menu item, apparently. An ad announc…