Ramen-tei, Asakusa
As work has gotten busier, I find myself going somewhere close rather than far, and choosing places I can walk into without any planning over the buzzed-about restaurants. I suppose this is what becoming a mid…
As work has gotten busier, I find myself going somewhere close rather than far, and choosing places I can walk into without any planning over the buzzed-about restaurants. I suppose this is what becoming a mid…
C*LAB Project is a dessert shop and cafe run by Le Champ de Pierres, a French restaurant. I never expected to find such a modern-looking dessert specialist in a spot like this. The front entrance At a glanc…
There is a nice little lunch spot near the office, so I drop in for lunch pretty often. It is a place called Arie, tucked away in a back alley with a cafe-like atmosphere. It is a neighborhood eatery, so there…
Yasubee, famous for its tsukemen, has plenty of branches, but you also see shops influenced by Yasubee all over the city. It is popular enough to form its own lineage, like Jiro. There is a Yasubee-style ramen…
In Japan, sakuramochi comes in two styles: the Chomeiji style of the Kanto region and the Domyoji style of Kansai. Both wrap the mochi in a cherry leaf, but the shape of the mochi itself is very different. I o…
I was craving Italian food for the first time in a while, so I went to a well-known Italian restaurant in Asakusa. The place is called Monte Bianco, and the owner apparently trained at a Michelin-starred resta…
Mont Blanc, the hamburg steak specialist in Asakusa, is a famous place. This time I stopped by for dinner. Miso soup Nothing out of the ordinary. Hamburg steak There were several kinds to choose from, and…
Sushizanmai has been all over the news since the start of the year, so I dropped in for the first time in a while. When I visited the main branch in Tsukiji years ago I was really impressed, but since then the…
Hardly anyone in Korea knows this, I suspect, but Asakusa has no fewer than four well-known Russian restaurants. Nowhere else in Japan, let alone Tokyo, has Russian cuisine concentrated like this, and when I l…
In Asakusa there is the golden Asahi Beer headquarters shaped like a beer mug, and right next to it is an izakaya-slash-restaurant run by Asahi Beer. I had heard many times that the beer tastes amazing there s…
I had long heard the rumour that one of the best soba shops in all of Tokyo was tucked away in a corner of Asakusa, and I already knew exactly where it was, but every time I went it was closed, so I only got t…
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…