Abusan, an Izakaya in Koenji
I’ve been keeping up a pattern of fine dining by day and izakaya-hopping by night. This day, too, I’d heard about a delicious izakaya that competes on shellfish dishes alone, so I went to check it …
I’ve been keeping up a pattern of fine dining by day and izakaya-hopping by night. This day, too, I’d heard about a delicious izakaya that competes on shellfish dishes alone, so I went to check it …
Sant Pau in Nihonbashi is the Tokyo branch of a restaurant that holds three Michelin stars in Spain. It’s a famous place with two stars in the Tokyo Michelin guide too, and as you’d expect with tho…
Needing to top up on carbs, I headed to Nagi, a ramen shop that’s supposed to be doing pretty well in Shinjuku. There are three Nagi shops in Shinjuku, and the one I went to was the Nishi-Shinjuku branch…
I went back for another try at Mitsumasa, where last time I left without eating properly. This time I wanted to enjoy the real taste of pork skewers. Starting with beer Summer is hot, so all the more reason …
There was a time when I loved Ochanomizu and went there constantly. Back then I mostly ate Western-style food like curry. I only found out fairly recently that there’s a famous udon shop there. It’…
I first heard the name Restaurant Narisawa a long time ago, but I never felt a strong urge to go. It’s not bad value for the price, but if you only tried to hit the must-visit special restaurants (Quinte…
The theme of this Tokyo trip was Spanish food. If you want to eat Spanish food, the right thing is obviously to go to Spain, but with my line of work there is no way I could ever get enough time off to spend t…
Levain used to be famous, but these days there are so many good bakeries that it honestly isn’t a place you need to go out of your way for. I really should be visiting Le Petit Mec, the hottest bakery of…
Plenty of places sell tofu, but only a handful serve tofu that is genuinely delicious. In fact, lots of people go through life without ever knowing that truly delicious tofu exists. On this Tokyo trip, a frien…
With a summer trip abroad coming up, I stopped by the Lotte Duty Free shop. It was really crowded. While I was there I looked for somewhere nearby to eat, spotted Tani Next Door, and had lunch there. It’…
Before heading off to Haneda I stopped by Tokyo Station for a bit. The Talisker 175th Anniversary bottle I’d spotted at Liquors Hasegawa a while ago kept nagging at me, so I went back specifically to buy…
Ginpei in Ginza is a Japanese restaurant that came up from Osaka. Dinner is a rather pricey full course, but lunch is cheap and generous, which has made it famous among the office workers around here. You get…