Kissa Elena in Yamate, Yokohama
Someone like me has so many restaurants left to try that I rarely go back to a place twice, but that is not so easy when I am with friends. If anything, we end up going somewhere we know will not disappoint. K…
Someone like me has so many restaurants left to try that I rarely go back to a place twice, but that is not so easy when I am with friends. If anything, we end up going somewhere we know will not disappoint. K…
O to U is a really popular spot, so I’d been before, and this time I dropped in once more. Here’s the place. The main street of Motomachi is lined with historic old favourites… and since thi…
Making the rounds of good restaurants is a hobby of mine, but some days I just walk into whatever catches my eye on the street. This was one of those days. A place like this Not a particularly delicious place…
Mihashi is that anmitsu specialist in Ueno where you have to queue up, and it turns out they’ve opened a branch inside Tokyo Station. Anmitsu The kanten, the sweet bean paste, the gyuhi and everything e…
Yudetaro is just an ordinary soba chain. You see them all over central Tokyo. Roughly like this.. They didn’t do takeout originally, but as the COVID period dragged on they started that too. This kind o…
I happened to hear about a place famous for its kakigori (shaved ice), so I went to check it out. This is the place.. A neat, tidy little cafe. The sign Apparently the soki soba and the shaved ice are what i…
Some of you may already know it, but there’s a manga called Yaiteru Futari. It’s about a couple doing BBQ in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, and it seems to be pretty popular. One of the spots that gets a qui…
Yamamototei is a Japanese restaurant that gets a lot of tourists. It sits in a spot called Bentenjima in Hamamatsu and serves fresh seafood. This area is proper countryside, so it’s a bit surprising that…
There is a chocolate specialty shop called ENTRE in Hamamatsu, so I paid it a visit. The place Entrance Inside Nice atmosphere. Souvenirs Table What could this be… They make the chocolate Mont Blan…
Yowanai Lemon-do, the alcohol-free one They’ve recreated the taste of a lemon sour really well. McDonald’s Big Mac Hadn’t had one in ages, and it hit the spot. The Korean food corner at AEO…
A local told me that a Chinese restaurant called Gomihattin was pretty good, so I went to check it out. The sign A place like this It is a family-restaurant-style place sitting right beside the national high…
The plan was to take the hotel shuttle bus to Kyoto Station, buy some omiyage, and then head home. The hotel had a small bar-like space set up where you could wait for the shuttle bus. It has a cafe-like atmo…