Yudetaro, the Soba Chain
Yudetaro is just an ordinary soba chain. You see them all over central Tokyo. Roughly like this.. They didn’t do takeout originally, but as the COVID period dragged on they started that too. This kind o…
Yudetaro is just an ordinary soba chain. You see them all over central Tokyo. Roughly like this.. They didn’t do takeout originally, but as the COVID period dragged on they started that too. This kind o…
Yamamototei is a Japanese restaurant that gets a lot of tourists. It sits in a spot called Bentenjima in Hamamatsu and serves fresh seafood. This area is proper countryside, so it’s a bit surprising that…
I picked a proper restaurant for lunch too. Getting a reservation wasn’t easy. Here’s the place A notice saying they’re fully booked with reservations today Soy milk La France I ordered a …
Aoki is always mobbed, no matter when you turn up.. Which is only natural, I’d say, when the food is this good.. I sat down and there was a sign asking everyone to eat in silence. Not that I had anyone…
The famous old spots in Shinbashi keep going under one after another, so it’s genuinely moving that Maihama has held on. This kind of place You just write your name down and wait, so there’s no ne…
I’d been wanting to try proper Sapporo-style soup curry, so I searched around and found one famous place in Ginza. Moncler, spotted on the way They’re doing a collab with Gentle Monster. Near Toky…
My middle-aged blood was calling for yakitori, so I headed to Toriyoshi for lunch. A few shots I took on the way over.. Bikku Ramen, apparently.. That’s the vibe of the place, but there were quite a lot…
Kitsuneya is a long-running gyudon and horumon-don joint in Tsukiji. The shop The big thing here is how deep and rich the flavour is. It’s a Tsukiji landmark and usually a queueing spot, but with COVID …
I love shellfish broth, so I make a point of seeking out ramen shops that serve it. The name Toratake sounds like it might belong to the Menya Musashi lineage, but for whatever reason it seemed to have a good …
A new ramen shop called Okurindo has opened in Hamamatsucho. The entrance It turned up in a spot where I never would have guessed there was a restaurant. The menu The menu here is fun: the base chuka soba is…
There’s a tonkatsu specialist in Shinjuku called Oroji, and as far as I remember it was already famous back in the 90s. I was curious what a place that has survived that long would be like, so I went. It…
I heard there was a good izakaya in Shinnonhyeon, so I went to check it out. Here’s the place This is a street I ride down all the time on my way out to the Han River, and I must have passed it a hundre…