Sanjusangendo, a Japanese Restaurant in Odaiba
I went to Sanjusangendo, a Japanese restaurant in Odaiba. I didn’t pick the place myself; there was a get-together and I was invited. The food was underwhelming and the prices were high, so it’s no…
I went to Sanjusangendo, a Japanese restaurant in Odaiba. I didn’t pick the place myself; there was a get-together and I was invited. The food was underwhelming and the prices were high, so it’s no…
Not many people realise it, but Meguro has quite a cluster of ramen shops. I think it’s because the area is full of salarymen working late into the night. It’s not quite Shinjuku or Ikebukuro, but …
Shinagawa is a neighborhood with next to nothing for tourists to see. But the Shinkansen stops here and there are quite a few big companies, so it’s grown into a secondary city center. My office is nearb…
Now the main course starts coming out. The shabu-shabu pot From the side Maybe because it’s a hotel restaurant, the design and service are top-notch. Out came Yonezawa beef, famous as a brand-name wagy…
When you travel you get curious about the hotels in the area, but when you live in a city for a long time you stop caring what hotels there are around town. Lately, since I started doing restaurant reviews, I&…
On a sunny day off I had a few errands in Ginza, and with the time left over I came to Tsukiji. Tsukiji has so many places to eat ^_^ I’m happy every time I go. The shrine in Tsukiji’s inner market…
I finally went to a famous soba shop in Azabu-Juban with a tradition going back more than 200 years. Places like this are delicious pretty much 100% of the time. If a shop has survived 200 years on soba alone,…
Seongbuk-dong is an upscale residential neighborhood. Like Azabu-Juban in Tokyo, it seems the kind of place that should have plenty of hidden gems. It wasn’t in the plan, but I ended up at Biyangdo, a Ja…
I spent yesterday and today on a two-day trip to Kyoto, and Vista went and wiped out all the photos I’d worked so hard to take. I’m still in shock. I managed to recover a few, but not a single rest…
Honestly, there aren’t many places in Kyoto that are really worth eating at. It’s either expensive or not tasty. (Most of the time it’s both.) I guess that’s because the whole city is o…
Yoshinoya has started serving gyudon again and is running an event called the Gyudon Revival Festival. It’s a limited-time gyudon sale ahead of the official relaunch in December. Remembering the bowls I …
I didn’t actually want to go to a Japanese restaurant in Korea, but around Gangnam the only places I knew that were cheap, had a nice atmosphere and served food worth eating were this one and Mokran in A…