Yakitori Souten, Otsuka
I had always thought of Otsuka as a bit of a food desert, since it sits somewhat on the edge of Tokyo, but apparently there is one exception: a yakitori specialist called Souten, a nationally famous spot that …
I had always thought of Otsuka as a bit of a food desert, since it sits somewhat on the edge of Tokyo, but apparently there is one exception: a yakitori specialist called Souten, a nationally famous spot that …
Before every trip to Tokyo I usually go through the Tabelog rankings from top to bottom, and this time there was an Akasaka cake shop I’d never seen before, so I pushed myself to go. It was enough to mak…
I’d known for a while that Pierre Hermé has a café at its Aoyama shop, but only this time did I finally manage to drop by. It’s a café with a rather unusual concept, so I’d wanted to visit at…
After lunch I had a bit of time to kill before dinner, so I made the rounds of some of Tokyo’s famous sweets shops. The first stop was Mont St. Clair. It didn’t take as long to get there as I’…
I’d planned a trip to Japan over the holiday stretch from late March to early May, so this time I was able to book ahead at a place rumoured to be really hard to get into. A local foodie who lives there …
The afternoon tea set at the Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo’s lounge is one of the best in Tokyo, so it’s always popular and famously hard to book. The wide-open view over the city from the 38th floor is…
Six-star hotels usually don’t include meals, but the plan I booked this time had breakfast included in the room rate, so every morning I ate at the restaurant on the 38th floor. For non-guests the prices…
On a Sunday evening in Tokyo there’s honestly nowhere to go except Western restaurants. I guess the message is: don’t go out on a Sunday night, stay home with your family. But my friend wanted soba…
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. …
Restaurant Quintessence is one of the French restaurants in Tokyo with three Michelin stars. With L’Osier in Ginza recently closing its doors for a while, the three-star French places are now down to jus…
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…
Work was at its busiest, but Children’s Day fell in the middle of it, so I went to the new outlet mall that just opened in Paju, partly to get myself moving. Everyone else apparently drives there, but be…