VIRON, the Shibuya Bakery
Shibuya has so many people passing through that it’s hard to find long-established restaurants, but there are well-reviewed places tucked away that fly under the radar. VIRON is a chain started by a famo…
Shibuya has so many people passing through that it’s hard to find long-established restaurants, but there are well-reviewed places tucked away that fly under the radar. VIRON is a chain started by a famo…
After a bowl of Inaniwa udon, I headed straight to the Koenji Station area to meet some friends. Nothing special to talk about, really, just an excuse to eat together. Rent is cheap around here and it has good…
Inaniwa udon is a specialty of Akita. I first saw it ages ago in Oishinbo, where they said it was made in a completely different way from Sanuki or Kansai udon yet was incredibly good, so I’d been meanin…
You can’t come to Kumamoto and not try horse sashimi. I went into Suganoya, which has a good reputation around here and sits right in the middle of the downtown area, but they said there were no seats, s…
I drove hard down the Nagasaki expressway toward Kumamoto, but maybe because it was Golden Week, there were a few kilometers of traffic jams along the way. I ended up more than an hour behind schedule, and sin…
One of the things Nagasaki is famous for, though it isn’t really all that special, is Nagasaki champon. Apparently if you look hard enough there are good champon shops out there somewhere, but I didnR…
For the May Golden Week holidays I did a loop around Kyushu. I’d originally meant to go abroad, but work was so busy that I switched to a domestic trip instead. The first stop was Sasebo, a city known fo…
Having come all the way to Tottori, I couldn’t just leave without eating somewhere good. I asked someone who used to live around here if they knew any good places, and off we went. The place we ended up…
So here it is, finally my last Kyoto post. ^_^ Having come all the way to Kyoto, I felt I’d been eating pretty carelessly so far, so I went looking for a kamameshi place with a good reputation on Tabelog…
I found out about an interesting place from a blog I often visit. It’s a cake shop in Kyoto called Ghost, and unusually, it sells cakes made with alcohol. The blogger raved that they tasted amazing, so I…
There’s one place in Kyoto that’s famous for bo-zushi. Bo-zushi is sushi made from fish that spoils easily, cured in vinegar and left to mature before eating. As expected it isn’t cheap, but …
I introduced this place the year before last, I think. It’s famous for Kyoto’s local cuisine, yet oddly it hardly shows up in guidebooks. Last time an SD card problem wiped out a whole bunch of my …