Mont Blanc, a Hamburg Steak Specialist in Asakusa
Asakusa is such an old neighborhood that it’s full of long-established famous restaurants, but today I didn’t come for any of those. I came all the way here to eat hamburg steak. There’s just…
Asakusa is such an old neighborhood that it’s full of long-established famous restaurants, but today I didn’t come for any of those. I came all the way here to eat hamburg steak. There’s just…
Isehiro is an 80-year-old yakitori place in Kyobashi, between Ginza and Tokyo Station. I’d heard a rumour that its lunchtime yakitori-don is the best in Tokyo, so I went to check it out. The sign ItR…
I had a lunch date with an acquaintance in Shirokanedai. Platinum Street in Shirokanedai is lined not only with well-known famous restaurants but with plenty of hidden gems too. (For example, the three-star re…
A ramen shop I dropped into by chance while passing by. I’d actually meant to go to the place next door, which is the famous one, but it had closed early, probably because it’s so popular. This pla…
Lately a lot of buildings with fun concepts have gone up around Tokyo Station. Besides the Marunouchi and Shin-Marunouchi Buildings, there’s the Daimaru building, TOKIA, and the buildings along Naka-dori…
Tamaru is a ramen shop you won’t find in any guidebook. A local recommended it to me, so I went to check it out. The front It’s small. It turned out to be right across from Zuyurumen Ikeda. The 75…
Ryogoku is famous as the home of the Kokugikan, the sumo arena. Lately I’ve been wandering around different parts of Tokyo at night, to learn my way around. There are still a lot of places I don’t …
Tsukemen Tetsu is a ramen shop in Shinatatsu, Shinagawa. My office is nearby, so I’ve had plenty of chances to drop by Shinatatsu, and this place always had the longest line, which kept nagging at me. Th…
I’d enjoyed my meal at the Ikebukuro branch, but I still found myself wanting to try the main shop. My headphones had broken too, so I headed out to Nakano. The building The line is seriously long. Toda…
Mutekiya is one of those famous shops that always ranks near the top among Ikebukuro’s ramen places. These days I’m working my way through pretty much every ramen shop in Tokyo that’s worth a…
I was strolling around Omotesando with a friend visiting from Korea and we happened to drop in. It’s in a building called GYRE, with the boutique on the 1st floor and the café on the 2nd, so it wasn̵…
My friends wanted to go, so I went along, but it was a really disappointing place. So I won’t go into detail; I’m just posting this for the record. That said, the cream puff in the last photo was p…