Rebaya in Yotsuya
I had a drinking get-together in Yotsuya, so I headed out. Yotsuya Rebaya Someone whose company office is in this neighborhood recommended it. Inside It was pretty late, but the place was packe…
I had a drinking get-together in Yotsuya, so I headed out. Yotsuya Rebaya Someone whose company office is in this neighborhood recommended it. Inside It was pretty late, but the place was packe…
Maihama is what you could call the number-one lunch spot in Shinbashi. It opens at 11:30, and the line is already long from that moment. For a 1,000 yen lunch, what you get is just absurd. The front ent…
Shinbashi has quite a few places famous for lunch, but I’d say this one and Maihama are the standouts. The front entrance From the outside it looks a bit run-down. Taimeshi set meal The n…
I’d heard there was a place in Asakusabashi that’s a bar in concept but serves proper, serious cooking, and on top of that has great ramen, so I dropped in. I called ahead to book a table, and the …
Hamamatsucho has a fair number of hidden high-end restaurants. It’s close to Ginza, but I suppose the real demand comes from all the offices around here. Honhama used to be famous for its cheap tai-meshi…
There are three famous tonkatsu places in Hamamatsucho, and Musashiya is one of them. The quality is top-notch, but the catch is that there’s nothing cheap on the menu. Front entrance The place i…
In Tsukiji’s inner market, between the two big-name sushi shops Sushi Dai and Daiwa Sushi, there’s a sushi shop called Yamazaki. The line is shorter than at the big names, but it’s still a fa…
Gyukatsu Motomura isn’t a Shinbashi-only place. It’s a chain, but everyone rates it well, so this time I gave it a try. The seat Inside The vibe is a lot like Roast Beef Ohno…
A friend was coming to visit, so we went to Mitsumasa, a kushiyaki place in Shinbashi. Highball Tsukune and pork jowl (tontoro) Stuffed green peppers Shishit…
I go to Makigushi in Shinjuku really often, and every time I post about it I wonder whether I really need to. But I’m not running a restaurant-review blog, so I’ll just keep posting without long ex…
There’s a roast beef bowl place in Akihabara where people line up to eat. Roast beef bowls are all the rage in Japan these days, and I’d wanted to try one somewhere, so I figured I might as well go…
Living close to Tsukiji, I get plenty of chances to drop by. Tsukiji at dawn I don’t do places with lines like this anymore, though… Odayasu It’s pretty famous and always pack…