A stroll around Nihonbashi
Some photos I took around Nihonbashi. Cakes at Atelier Anniversary It just looked lovely, so I took a photo. Au Bon Vieux Temps At the Takashimaya branch of Au Bon Vieux Temps, if you turn up late there are …
Some photos I took around Nihonbashi. Cakes at Atelier Anniversary It just looked lovely, so I took a photo. Au Bon Vieux Temps At the Takashimaya branch of Au Bon Vieux Temps, if you turn up late there are …
The cake shop at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Nihonbashi sells an incredible cake. It is called KUMO, and everyone says the queue is so long that it is hard to get one. KUMO It means “cloud” in Japanese. Th…
Nihonbashi has picked up a lot of new places lately. Sushi no Midori, for example It’s the shop with the ridiculous queues in Ginza, and now one with takeaway plus a few tables has opened in Nihonbashi….
There’s a dessert shop on the ground floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel, and it’s probably the place with the most creative desserts in all of Tokyo. The entrance They sell bread and all sorts o…
I’d known for ages that Taimeiken, the yoshoku (Western-style) restaurant in Nihonbashi, serves a good shoyu ramen, but what actually got me to go was seeing it in Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles. ItR…
Went back to Ventaglio, the Mediterranean restaurant in Nihonbashi. As I get older I find myself drawn to izakayas and buffets where I can eat a little bit of lots of different things. The food There’s …
I’d heard that Alain Ducasse had opened a chocolate factory in Nihonbashi, so I went to check it out. Being Nihonbashi, I assumed it would be inside the Mitsukoshi department store, but no, they’ve…
There’s a restaurant in the lobby (?) of the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo in Nihonbashi. It’s not really the lobby, more a space connected to the ground floor. I guess you’d say they made good use…
Sembikiya is famous as a luxury fruit shop, but the main store in Nihonbashi also runs a yoshoku (Western-style) restaurant. It is not exactly a cheap place, yet it is always packed. I had been craving both yo…
There is a French restaurant with a wonderful view at the Mandarin Oriental in Nihonbashi, so I went. I hear it holds one Michelin star. Being in a hotel, the service was good and the atmosphere was lovely. J…
Right in front of the entrance to the food floor of Nihonbashi Takashimaya, one of the top department stores in Tokyo, there is a cake shop called Au Bon Vieux Temps. Whenever I dropped by there were never any…
Sant Pau in Nihonbashi is the Tokyo branch of a restaurant that holds three Michelin stars in Spain. It’s a famous place with two stars in the Tokyo Michelin guide too, and as you’d expect with tho…