Tokyo Dosanjin, Nakameguro
I am still posting about May.. but since the weather is starting to heat up, I went all the way out to Nakameguro for some chilled sudachi soba. There is a place in Ginza that serves it too, but this one appea…
I am still posting about May.. but since the weather is starting to heat up, I went all the way out to Nakameguro for some chilled sudachi soba. There is a place in Ginza that serves it too, but this one appea…
The cherry blossoms came out incredibly early this year. So early it made me think, huh, there are years like this. Normally they do not hit full bloom until April, but this year they started opening in mid-Ma…
After grilling and eating a mountain of meat at Kameido Horumon, we went to a soba place nearby for round two. Nice atmosphere in there. Tempura Goes well with drinks. Bamboo shoots A spring dish. It was …
The number one soba restaurant in Tokyo on Tabelog is in Asakusa. It is a handmade soba specialist called Daikokuya, a place I had tried a few times but always gave up on because the line was so long. This tim…
I heard there was a machine-made juwari (100% buckwheat) soba shop in Akihabara, so I went one weekend. The front entrance It is tucked away in a bit of a corner. If you are going out of your way, it is a f…
There are not many soba shops in Tokyo that open on Mondays. A friend was visiting from Korea and we thought about having soba; these days Azumabashi Yabu Soba would be my top recommendation, but where we ende…
I had long heard the rumour that one of the best soba shops in all of Tokyo was tucked away in a corner of Asakusa, and I already knew exactly where it was, but every time I went it was closed, so I only got t…
I was wondering where to go for my weekend gourmet outing and decided on a soba place near home. It is a handmade soba shop called Tsune, and somehow it looked like it had some serious skill behind it. The se…
Kotobuki is a casual soba shop in Azumabashi. The Sumida ward office and the Asahi Beer building are nearby, and the office workers from around there seem to use it a lot for lunch. I dropped in one weekend wh…
Taimeian, a soba shop in Ginza, was the place I most wanted to visit this winter. It falls well short of being called the best soba shop, and sharing tables with strangers is just the norm here, but every time…
After coming down from Mt. Takao, I went straight into a soba shop near the trailhead. There is not much to eat up on the mountain, and the best option around seemed to be a soba place called Takahashiya. Tea…
On a Sunday evening in Tokyo there’s honestly nowhere to go except Western restaurants. I guess the message is: don’t go out on a Sunday night, stay home with your family. But my friend wanted soba…