Hirosaku in Shinbashi
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 …
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’ve always been the type who can sleep anywhere, but on this trip I actually put some thought into where to stay. Of all the six-star hotels in Tokyo, the Mandarin was the one I most wanted to try, and …
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…
After agonizing for ages over what to have for dessert, I went to Pierre Hermé in the basement food hall of the Mitsukoshi department store in Nihonbashi. I wanted to try the real Ispahan. The shopping bag …
I’d heard there was a good-value sushi place in Marunouchi Brick Square, so I dropped by. This one also has a crazy-high Tabelog score, which felt a bit rigged to me, but someone who’d actually bee…
Anniversaire Café is a well-known cafe in Omotesando. I’d actually meant to stop by Omotesando Hills, but as luck would have it, it was closed that day, so I wandered in here while trying to decide where…
A while back I’d caught a passing rumour about an interesting French restaurant over in the shitamachi part of town and filed it away, and this time I finally got the chance to go. Keeping your ears open…