Kyorakutei, Kagurazaka
When it comes to places in Tokyo where you can casually enjoy really good soba, Kyorakutei and Azumabashi Yabusoba are the first two that come to mind. Considering how hard Azumabashi Yabusoba is to visit beca…
When it comes to places in Tokyo where you can casually enjoy really good soba, Kyorakutei and Azumabashi Yabusoba are the first two that come to mind. Considering how hard Azumabashi Yabusoba is to visit beca…
My first stop fell through and I could not just head home like that, so I looked for somewhere to grab a simple bowl of soba, and a place called Karibe came up in the search. The otoshi Deep-fried shrimp he…
A friend put in a request for good soba that day, so the plan was to try Kyorakutei in Kagurazaka, but.. oh no, they had already closed early for the long weekend. So I just searched for places nearby and up c…
I picked up a copy of Sweets Bancho’s The Ten Supreme Sweets at Sanseido, read the whole thing that evening and went straight into analysis mode. ^_^ Turns out there are so, so many cake shops I still ha…
The second place we dropped into was La Matière, a French restaurant in Kagurazaka famous for its value for money. It has been well reviewed since the day it opened and is notorious for being all but impossibl…
Kagurazaka is full of high-end restaurants with Michelin stars, but it also has plenty of places that are great value for the money. Brasserie Gus is one of those well-reviewed spots. Precisely because it is s…
Somehow two months have already passed since my trip to Tokyo. I go there often, but Tokyo always has something new. This time too I mostly went around places I hadn’t been to yet. Edogawa Park ItR…
Kagurazaka is one of Tokyo’s big streets for good restaurants. It’s central, but it’s not much of a shopping area and it’s not all that convenient to get to, so unless I have some speci…