Ramen Bigakuya, Kiba
I went to the cinema in Kiba to see The Hobbit, a film I had personally been really looking forward to. It is one of the few IMAX 3D cinemas in Tokyo. Maybe because it is a bit out of the way, booking was easy…
I went to the cinema in Kiba to see The Hobbit, a film I had personally been really looking forward to. It is one of the few IMAX 3D cinemas in Tokyo. Maybe because it is a bit out of the way, booking was easy…
After round one at Toriki, we hopped in a taxi and headed over to Bebop’s place. Rikuro Ojisan cheesecake A cake Bebop brought back from a business trip to Osaka. Similar cakes have started showing up…
A member of my gourmet club came over from Korea to visit, and after some thought about where to go, I booked a Michelin-starred yakitori place in Kinshicho. Originally I wanted to go to one of those hard-to-b…
In early December, after casting my overseas vote in Yotsuya, I was wondering where to go for dinner and ended up heading to Le Petit Mec, a bakery in Shinjuku. It is a branch of a famous Kyoto bakery, on the …
I had heard for a long time that Asakusa had a great bo-zushi (pressed sushi) specialist, and I had tried to go a few times without success, but this time I booked a few days ahead and finally made it. The sus…
One weekday evening I went to Ohashi, famous as one of Tokyo’s three great nikomi (stewed offal) specialists. I had already been to Kishidaya in Tsukishima and Yamariki in Morishita, so this meant visiti…
There is a well-reviewed ramen shop in Hamamatsucho, so I went over on my lunch break. It is called Tokyo Ramen Tower, and I guess the name comes from Tokyo Tower being visible right behind the shop. The fron…
Lately I have been eating dinner at home more often. So I keep stopping by a cake shop on the way home to pick up a cake for dessert. Tokyo has so many great dessert shops that it makes dinner all the more enj…
I heard that the hottest ramen shop in Tokyo right now is in Shinkoiwa, so one day I quite literally ran there. It is about 7 to 8 km from Asakusa, but maybe because the running route is so well laid out, I go…
We had a get-together in Shin-Okubo, and after going back and forth over where to go, I booked a ssambap place I had been to before. Sanpaya is the Japanese-style name for a ssambap-jip, a ssambap restaurant. …
Kotobuki is a casual soba shop in Azumabashi. The Sumida ward office and the Asahi Beer building are nearby, and the office workers from around there seem to use it a lot for lunch. I dropped in one weekend wh…
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…