Kushitaro in Shinjuku
I met up with a friend in Shinjuku for a quick drink. Fresh ingredients skewered and grilled can hardly go wrong. As expected, it is a place for middle-aged guys. Beer Otoshi Bacon-wrapp…
I met up with a friend in Shinjuku for a quick drink. Fresh ingredients skewered and grilled can hardly go wrong. As expected, it is a place for middle-aged guys. Beer Otoshi Bacon-wrapp…
Upscale coffee houses charging around 1,000 yen a cup are popular in Japan these days. Places like Tsubakiya Coffee and Hoshino Coffee. This time I went to Tsubakiya. Mont Blanc cake and iced coffee Th…
There are lots of izakayas around Kabukicho in Shinjuku, and Kanae is one of them. It isn’t cheap, but they cook with seasonal ingredients. Sashimi These days there are plenty of places in Korea …
Pierre Hermé is in the basement of Isetan in Shinjuku. A dessert shop with real flair. It has come to Korea too, but sadly no cakes yet. The Dior cafe in Cheongdam-dong does sell some, but not the signature ca…
Ken’s Cafe Tokyo in Shinjuku is famous for its slightly pricey gateau chocolat. It started out as a cafe, but once the gateau chocolat became popular nationwide they stopped the cafe business and now sel…
I had plans for a late breakfast-slash-lunch in Shinjuku. For a get-together, the department store restaurant floors or a hotel restaurant would have been fine too, but the more casual Suminoe seemed like the …
I’d booked a place to stay in Shinjuku and went out for dinner, but that neighborhood doesn’t really have that many places to eat. So I went into a chain restaurant with reasonable prices and reaso…
When it comes to the best place to buy liquor in Tokyo, the first one that comes to mind is Shinanoya in Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Prices are lower than at other shops, and the selection is absolutely enormous. It …
I had an appointment in Shinjuku, and after mulling over what to eat, I booked a table at Mizutaki Genkai. Mizutaki is a regional dish from Kyushu that I had only heard about and never actually tried. The fro…
I had heard rumours that a bakery with great croissants had opened in Shinjuku, and even though I had walked around that area a few times, I had no idea. I looked it up on Tabelog and was surprised to find a b…
Ramen Nagi has long been famous as a niboshi-style (dried sardine broth) ramen shop, but I rarely had a reason to go to Shinjuku Golden Gai, so I only just got around to it. Golden Gai is also the setting of t…
I knew Sadaharu Aoki was famous, but I do not remember ever buying anything there other than chocolate. The prices are steep and the cakes look so flashy that I had always been a bit put off. But with my Tokyo…