Ramen Horiuchi in Shinbashi
A bunch of things came up and it got late, but I was too hungry to just head home, so I ducked into a ramen shop in Shinbashi. Shinbashi has plenty of famous ramen places, but among the ones you can still go t…
A bunch of things came up and it got late, but I was too hungry to just head home, so I ducked into a ramen shop in Shinbashi. Shinbashi has plenty of famous ramen places, but among the ones you can still go t…
Without any plan, I ended up having dinner in Shinbashi. Maybe because it was a Friday night, every place was packed, but after a lap around the area I found a free table at a place called Makochan and walked …
Because of where I work, I often end up passing through Shinbashi, but that doesn’t mean I have enough spare time to go hunting for great restaurants. There are a few places for a quick bite, and I tried…
Shinkyotei, a Chinese restaurant in Shinbashi, isn’t a particularly special place, but it’s open on weekends, has private rooms and the prices are reasonable, so I used it for a get-together with f…
On this Tokyo trip I have been going mostly around restaurants I had long wanted to try. The reason is that I have no friend to go restaurant-hopping with. At a place I know well I can just eat what I want and…
Tempura Osaka in Shinbashi is a place I had been to once before and walked out of seriously impressed. If you judge it by lunch alone, finding a tempura place with better value than this is close to impossible…
By the time I had finished all the paperwork, July was almost over. A month goes by fast. I stopped at the driver’s licence centre before work to get the papers sorted, and by then lunchtime had already …
I went back for another try at Mitsumasa, where last time I left without eating properly. This time I wanted to enjoy the real taste of pork skewers. Starting with beer Summer is hot, so all the more reason …
I’d planned a trip to Japan over the holiday stretch from late March to early May, so this time I was able to book ahead at a place rumoured to be really hard to get into. A local foodie who lives there …
Gripped by the urge to eat something delicious before the night was over, I dashed straight to the next place. Mitsumasa is a kushiyaki joint that ranks among the best not just in Shinbashi but in all of Tokyo…
There was a well-reviewed place in Shinbashi, so I decided to give it a try. It is a fusion-style izakaya, and to be honest fusion scares me a little, but I heard they had a big range of sake, so I trusted tha…
I used my lunch break to visit a well-known Inaniwa udon place in Shinbashi. I had been blown away the first time I tried Inaniwa udon, and I had heard this place was very good too. Because of that, I was told…