Honhama in Hamamatsucho
I’ve been coming to Honhama really often this year. I guess that says how good the place is. Monaka The filling inside Sea bream sashimi Three kinds of sashimi The seared sashimi was so good. Crab ro…
I’ve been coming to Honhama really often this year. I guess that says how good the place is. Monaka The filling inside Sea bream sashimi Three kinds of sashimi The seared sashimi was so good. Crab ro…
Went to Ginza Six for the first time in a while, and… A pop-up by Échiré’s second brand They had all sorts of desserts you can’t get at the main Échiré shop. I had other plans that da…
Nagasaki Kaido was so, so good that I came back in the evening. Otoshi (appetizer) Kakuni (braised pork belly) About average. Seafood salad Loved the portion on this one, and it tasted good too. Hatoshi It…
I heard there was a restaurant in Toranomon famous for its rice, so I dropped by. Apparently the line is always long, but maybe because I got there late, it wasn’t that bad this time. The entrance Fried…
I had a get-together in Hamamatsucho, so we went into an okonomiyaki place. Okonomiyaki The ingredients were good, and it seemed even tastier than the ones in Tsukishima. Corn with butter Seafood with butter…
There is an izakaya with the slightly odd name Yaki Hamaguriru, and its reviews were surprisingly good, so I went to check it out. The fried Spanish mackerel lunch.. It really is a proper spread. Fried Spanis…
Wakura is a Japanese restaurant in Hamamatsucho. Its lunch has a good reputation, so I went to check it out. The entrance How lunch works It is 1000 yen and you get a main + sashimi + two side dishes of your…
A friend of mine who is a professor in Korea came over to Tokyo for a conference. We wondered where to go and settled on a good unagi place. The hashioki, the chopstick rest, is cute. It is shaped like …
In Tsukishima I picked a place and walked in without really thinking about it. Given the feel of this neighborhood, I suspect they are all much the same anyway. Butter sausages and stir-fried vegetables…
I was meeting someone in Hamamatsucho in the evening, and after some back and forth about where to go, we ended up at a tonkatsu place. The trouble with this neighborhood is that there are plenty of places to …
Rojiura is a fairly well-known izakaya in Shinagawa. It is famous for its spicy gyusuji nikomi, simmered beef tendon. The front entrance It is near Shinagawa Station, but really tucked away deep in a back all…
Waraku in Shinbashi is a place I think you could safely call one of the big three of Shinbashi lunch. Much like Maihama, the line here is long. The table setting Bonito The size was enor…