Brasserie L’ecrin Café at Ueno Station
A month later I found myself heading back to Tokyo. Somehow this trip ended up going through Narita for the first time in years, and it was such a hassle. The price difference turned out to be tiny anyway, so …
A month later I found myself heading back to Tokyo. Somehow this trip ended up going through Narita for the first time in years, and it was such a hassle. The price difference turned out to be tiny anyway, so …
Louis Cinq is a restaurant that opened on Apgujeong Rodeo Street around the end of last year, I think. Maybe because they did their blogger marketing well, it’s gotten pretty good exposure for a place th…
I was wandering around trying to decide what to have for lunch when I happened to stumble on a branch of Igrek. It’s on the 6th floor of the Uniqlo building near Daimaru. I’d already eaten a pretty…
Lately I’ve been hunting for restaurants where you can go with friends on a not-too-steep budget and eat a bit of everything. When you’re out in the working world, you end up needing a place like t…
I tried to set up a dinner for the weekend, but October 10, 2010 turned out to be a special day and I couldn’t get a booking anywhere. Almost every fine-dining restaurant in the city was fully booked for…
Last month I made the time to go to Pierre Gagnaire, said to be the best French restaurant in the country. I’d wanted to go for ages, but its opening hours never gave me a chance, until I heard a rumour …
I’d read on some blog that a French butter specialty shop called Echire had recently opened in Marunouchi, and I made up my mind to go. Their croissants, made with loads of butter, are so popular that yo…
Elbon the Table, 2chef, and Yountville too, which I never wrote up on the blog: lately I’ve been going to Western restaurants a lot. Not because I particularly love Western food and was dying to try them…
Right before heading home at the end of a business trip to Tokyo, I dropped by, with some friends, a place I’d been dying to visit! It’s the café run by a bakery called VIRON in Shibuya, which serv…
Restaurant Hara is a French restaurant in my neighbourhood. It seems to have opened only about a month ago, but it’s always full, so I made a proper reservation and went with a friend. Wine and glasses …
For White Day, I went with some of my fellow single friends to Chemins, a small French restaurant in Akasaka. Everyone had been telling me for ages how good it was, especially how amazing the food is with wine…
Shirokane-Takanawa is an upscale residential neighborhood you could call the Beverly Hills of Tokyo. Being residential, it doesn’t have many tourist spots, but a close friend lives there, so I often drop…