Henri Charpentier is a famous dessert shop that has been in business in Ginza for 40 years. Lately it has kept opening branches, mostly in department-store food halls, and unusually, even those branches get ve…
La Bettola bis is a place with great atmosphere and great food, so it’s famous for being hard to book. The course price has gone up quite a bit this year (from 3,300 yen to 3,800 yen…), but getting…
Ladurée, the historic Paris pâtisserie famous for its macarons, opened a branch in Tokyo on July 26. After their events in January and February turned out to be a big hit, it looks like they rode that momentum…
Something suddenly came up that took me to Ginza, so I used the chance to visit an Indian curry specialist I’d been meaning to try for a while. It’s been so hot lately that I was desperate for some…
After a good round of yakitori, we needed something more filling to finish off the night. The plan was to go to the ramen place Tokyo Style Miso Ramen Do Miso, but it wasn’t open. Something about having …
Ginza, the gourmet district, is full of interesting places. Long-established famous shops, newly opened cafés, internationally renowned restaurants and so on – there’s a lot to catch your eye. Kobe…
Not many people know this, but on the 4th floor of the Gucci store in Ginza there’s a café and a chocolate shop. The café isn’t all that pricey (coffee is about 600 yen) and the atmosphere is lovel…
Hidemi Sugino is a cake shop in Ginza (technically Kyobashi, if you go by the official address). It’s a famous shop from Kobe, the city best known for cakes in all of Japan, that has expanded to Tokyo, s…
Starter 2 Capesante ai carciofi, con crema di baccala mantecato all’olio extra vergine di oliva e bottarga Sautéed scallop with baccalà crema, artichoke and bottarga A scallop dish. The thing sitting on…
It’s really great to have a friend who shares your hobbies. On top of that, we know each other’s tastes so well that their recommendations never miss ^_^ That friend came to visit for the first tim…
Soba is at its best in autumn when the new-harvest buckwheat comes in, but I think the time you crave it most is the middle of summer. Just like ice-cold naengmyeon. I heard there’s a specialist shop ser…
There’s a miso ramen shop in Ginza that isn’t widely known yet but has been getting popular lately, so I went to check it out. It’s called Ginza, but administratively it’s actually Kyob…