Bar Bee, Hikifune
I heard a rumor that in Hikifune, not far from Asakusa, there is a bar that serves really good Chinese food. Bars in Japan often serve simple meals, but a bar that puts out proper, full-on Chinese cooking is p…
I heard a rumor that in Hikifune, not far from Asakusa, there is a bar that serves really good Chinese food. Bars in Japan often serve simple meals, but a bar that puts out proper, full-on Chinese cooking is p…
I stopped by Endo Risaburo Shoten, one of the best-known wine bistros in Tokyo’s old shitamachi district. The plan was just to have a casual drink. I dropped in late on a weekend evening and the place wa…
Shibaura, the stretch between JR Tamachi Station and JR Hamamatsucho Station, has a small canal running through it. It isn’t used for moving freight the way canals in Korea are, it seems to be purely orn…
After a good amount of wine at 2chef, we move on to The Factory. Is this déjà vu, perhaps? Whisky glasses They serve it with a round ball of ice. When you drink whisky on the rocks, a round ice ball melts e…
I come here so often now that I can’t even be bothered to explain it. It’s near the far end of the alley off Hongdae’s Parking Lot Street. A big Echire cookie I brought along that day Hone…
Single malts seem to have become the trend of the times lately. I’d been drinking only wine for a while so I didn’t know much about that side of things, but it turns out Seoul has a few bars that s…
If you land at Haneda Airport on the last flight, it’s usually around 8 pm. Heading into the city, checking in at the hotel and then going for a drink gets you to around 10 at the earliest, and with the …
I did a short interview with the chef in the bar right next door to the restaurant Joël Robuchon. The atmosphere is luxury itself. Interior 1 Interior 2 Interior 3 Interior 4 Ceiling The bar Complimentar…
At the top of the Park Hyatt in Shinjuku there’s a steakhouse called the New York Grill and a bar called the New York Bar. Both are beautifully done and the views are great, but the word is that the New …
I was wondering where to have dinner in the Marunouchi Building and headed for somewhere I could eat something light. Oyster bars are popular in Tokyo these days, and places with a similar concept have been po…