Taimeian, Ginza
Taimeian, a soba shop in Ginza, was the place I most wanted to visit this winter. It falls well short of being called the best soba shop, and sharing tables with strangers is just the norm here, but every time…
Taimeian, a soba shop in Ginza, was the place I most wanted to visit this winter. It falls well short of being called the best soba shop, and sharing tables with strangers is just the norm here, but every time…
La Bettola da Ochiai, the Italian restaurant in Ginza, is a really good place whether you look at the prices or the food, but lately I just cannot find the time to go. So, hoping to at least taste their desser…
Beige in Ginza is a French restaurant famous for Chanel, chef Alain Ducasse and its two Michelin stars. I had been curious for a long time about what Alain Ducasse’s food tastes like, so when a friend ca…
I was strolling right through the middle of Ginza when I ran into an event for Toyama Black ramen. Toyama Black is a somewhat extreme style of regional ramen, and I had my eye on it because it has been doing w…
My friends and I decided to grab a meal somewhere around Ginza, but there was no obvious place to go. The good spots either need a reservation, or cost too much, or have a queue, or just are not the kind of pl…
Ginpei in Ginza is a Japanese restaurant that came up from Osaka. Dinner is a rather pricey full course, but lunch is cheap and generous, which has made it famous among the office workers around here. You get…
I’d always dropped by Gucci Café just to buy chocolates, but this time it was hot and I had some time to kill, so I stayed for dessert. There are still a few places in Ginza I want to try, including the …
On Sundays there’s not really anywhere good to eat apart from Western restaurants. So the place I picked was Miyagawa Honten, the unagi shop on the restaurant floor of Matsuya department store in Ginza. …
I took advantage of the long weekend for a quick trip to Tokyo. With the earthquake, the tsunami, the nuclear plant crisis and everything else, these are unsettled times, but since I’d made the trip anyw…
I got to Tokyo Station at 7 in the morning and headed straight to Tsukiji to meet up with my foodie group. When you’re travelling in Tokyo, Tsukiji is about the only place where you can get a proper brea…
I got to Tokyo around 11, and even though I had a lunch appointment at 1, I still needed a little palate-warmer first -_- so I headed straight to Ginza. The plan was to finally try a top-notch shio ramen speci…
I’m a homebody by nature who hates being in the spotlight, and I work in a field where value for money is everything, so I’ve lived most of my life without much interest in designer brands. But at …