Kobe Street Scenes and The Old Spaghetti Factory
A friend called me out, so I went to Kobe for the first time in a while. It was a day trip, the friend who invited me isn’t exactly a foodie, and it was pouring rain, so it wasn’t the most fulfilli…
A friend called me out, so I went to Kobe for the first time in a while. It was a day trip, the friend who invited me isn’t exactly a foodie, and it was pouring rain, so it wasn’t the most fulfilli…
As luck would have it, there was a festival going on in Shirokane. I’d been planning to have lunch, but decided to just graze on some street snacks instead. An amateur orchestra playing I can’t …
While wandering around Ebisu I stopped for lunch at an Italian restaurant tucked away in a hidden spot. The location is so obscure that even with a map it was really hard to find. The front entrance Who wou…
This time I booked a place in Roppongi. Food, shopping and sightseeing are all packed into one area, so when I can’t be bothered to travel far, nowhere beats Roppongi. Most tourists are probably better o…
Matagi is a robatayaki in Roppongi. The senior member who handles Tokyo for the gourmet club I’m part of said this place looked good and suggested we go, so I went in with high hopes. When I looked it up…
Yakiniku is always delicious. The only shame is that it’s too pricey to go often. This time a get-together came up out of the blue, and after mulling over where to go, I settled on this place, which I re…
I came to Tokyo on a business trip, but pretty much all I remember is the eating. I’m thinking of posting it bit by bit. The first place I went on day one was Hatsushima, a small izakaya in Shinbashi. It…
Restaurant Hara is a French restaurant in my neighbourhood. It seems to have opened only about a month ago, but it’s always full, so I made a proper reservation and went with a friend. Wine and glasses …
The day after hitting Fukuoka, I headed to Arita, famous for its porcelain fair. It’s in Saga Prefecture, but geographically it’s closer to Sasebo. It’s pretty deep in the hills, so I wondere…
In Japan, pretty much every neighbourhood has at least one good place for eel, tonkatsu and sushi. Partly for that reason, and partly because it isn’t eel season right now, I didn’t particularly wa…
I’d just arrived in Fukuoka and had drunk a bit too much the night before, so breakfast obviously had to be tonkotsu ramen. After some thought about where to go, I headed to the Ichiran in Nakasu-Kawabat…
After Shimonoseki, the next stop was Fukuoka. During Golden Week, Hakata is famous for a huge festival called Dontaku. Not that I had much interest in the festival itself, but schedule-wise there wasn’t …