Lately I have been hosting foodie meetups myself more and more, and as a result I end up going to gatherings here and there. I have been blogging for close to ten years, but I had hardly ever visited the same …
As soon as I got back from my trip to Japan, I headed straight to Bistro Polpo. Part of it is that I am friends with the owner-chef, but I also think it is the most easygoing bistro to use in Gangnam. Sparkli…
This trip came up suddenly for work, so I could not meet friends or make the rounds of good restaurants. It was a bit dull, but for the record, here are photos of the places I dropped by. The fountain at Maru…
Nishi-Azabu, an upscale residential area not far from Roppongi, is packed with really stylish, atmospheric restaurants. Among them, I had kept hearing that a tonkatsu specialist called Butagumi was famous, and…
Hyottoko, in the basement of the Ginza Kotsu Kaikan building, serves some of the best shio ramen in Tokyo. I happened to have some shopping to do in Ginza, and with an awkward gap in my schedule I stopped in f…
I had plans for a late breakfast-slash-lunch in Shinjuku. For a get-together, the department store restaurant floors or a hotel restaurant would have been fine too, but the more casual Suminoe seemed like the …
Tsukiji Sushi Sen is a proper sushi chain with its main shop in Tsukiji. Its rival would be Sushi Zanmai. It is not a very expensive place, but the value for money is nothing special either, and the food is no…
I had a lunch appointment in Hamamatsucho, so I got a meal in while I was there. The lunch-service onigiri Living in Japan, you end up eating a lot of carbs. Korea has plenty too, but Japan seems to have ev…
My schedule was so packed this time that I hadn’t planned on going to Échiré at all, but a certain someone asked me to, so off I went. I got there a bit early. Even on a weekday the line was long. As …
I’d booked a place to stay in Shinjuku and went out for dinner, but that neighborhood doesn’t really have that many places to eat. So I went into a chain restaurant with reasonable prices and reaso…
There are a few places I absolutely have to visit whenever I’m in Tokyo, and tri-R Shibatani is one of them. It’s a place I just love. Canelé The best canelé I’ve ever had was as good as e…
At the end of May I had to make a sudden trip to Tokyo. The schedule was so packed that I barely got to eat properly. It was a bit of a shame, but I’ll post the few good places I managed to drop by along…