SABAR, an Izakaya in Daimon
I had a reason to go for a drink in Daimon, and while looking for an izakaya nearby I ended up at a place called SABAR. Saba means mackerel, and it is a mackerel specialist: every single dish has mackerel in i…
I had a reason to go for a drink in Daimon, and while looking for an izakaya nearby I ended up at a place called SABAR. Saba means mackerel, and it is a mackerel specialist: every single dish has mackerel in i…
Strolling along Pontocho, I walked into a place near the far end that looked decent enough. Its Tabelog score is somewhere in the low 3s, the kind of place I would normally never go. To my surprise it was tast…
We had a get-together over the Lunar New Year holiday, and finding a place that wasn’t closed turned out to be really hard. I heard Gyuzakaya Moto was open, so we headed over to Yeonhui-dong. It’s …
In Morishita there’s an izakaya I love called Yamariki. The main branch Maybe because it was raining, it was fairly quiet. Hardly any line either. The menu The prices are wonderful.  …
There are lots of izakayas around Kabukicho in Shinjuku, and Kanae is one of them. It isn’t cheap, but they cook with seasonal ingredients. Sashimi These days there are plenty of places in Korea …
These days, whenever I make plans to meet someone in Gangnam, I pretty much only end up at Sicily or Polpo. Given my tastes, I do not go around looking for restaurants to drink beer, wine, sake or whisky at (I…
I heard there was a restaurant popular with the locals in Oshiage, where the Tokyo Skytree stands, so I went to check it out. Udon and Kyushu cuisine are the mainstays here. The front entrance Lunch is said…
Near Asakusa, at Azumabashi, there is an izakaya called Yorozuya that serves an eclectic menu built on Western-style food. “Yorozu” means “everything,” so the name means a shop that has…
Vinosity, a wine izakaya in Kanda, is a place I remember eating really well at before, so this time I went back. I am starting to have places I could almost call my regular spots, and it feels like making a li…
In Asakusa there is the golden Asahi Beer headquarters shaped like a beer mug, and right next to it is an izakaya-slash-restaurant run by Asahi Beer. I had heard many times that the beer tastes amazing there s…
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…
I had heard for ages that there was a popular wine-focused izakaya in Kanda, but the location is a bit awkward and reservations are hard to get, so I never managed to go. It was only when the long summer ended…