Oreno Bakery in Ginza
I heard a rumor that an Oreno Bakery had opened in Ginza and rushed over. There is already one in Ebisu, but apparently the line there is long. The Ginza branch is behind the Matsuya department store, and so f…
I heard a rumor that an Oreno Bakery had opened in Ginza and rushed over. There is already one in Ebisu, but apparently the line there is long. The Ginza branch is behind the Matsuya department store, and so f…
For Chuseok I headed back to Korea via Haneda Airport. Don Quijote has opened at Haneda (the Soradonki branch). A welcome change. This supplement was ranked number one, apparently.  …
A friend of mine who is a professor in Korea came over to Tokyo for a conference. We wondered where to go and settled on a good unagi place. The hashioki, the chopstick rest, is cute. It is shaped like …
I went to Ueno Park over the weekend. Lunch was at Café Hibiki.. The lines were long everywhere, so we settled on a slightly quieter spot where we could wait for a table. I didn’t get a ph…
Head from the south exit of Shinjuku Station toward the Oedo Line and you come across Kajitsuen Liber. I thought I had been to Shinjuku plenty of times, but I only just found out a place like this existed. Tha…
I was wandering the night streets of Kichijoji and stepped into a bar, but the whisky list was nothing special. So I asked the owner, and he recommended Bar Fort. I asked for some Japanese whisky recomm…
I was planning to go to Iseya, the hugely famous yakitori place in Kichijoji.. but after a first round at Sasanoha I got there to find it closed. So I walked into some random place near the station, and the fo…
The usual member and I went back to Sasanoha, just the two of us. First up, a plate of sashimi.. Nice and fresh. Today’s fish Today’s fish A plate of tu…
There is a well-reviewed ramen shop near the office, so I went over on my lunch break. This is the place It is cramped inside. Roughly the vibe Ramen On par with Matoi, or maybe …
In Tsukishima I picked a place and walked in without really thinking about it. Given the feel of this neighborhood, I suspect they are all much the same anyway. Butter sausages and stir-fried vegetables…
I was meeting someone in Hamamatsucho in the evening, and after some back and forth about where to go, we ended up at a tonkatsu place. The trouble with this neighborhood is that there are plenty of places to …
Since I was stopping by Maison d’Ahni anyway, I dropped into Pointage too. It is such a popular bakery that plenty of people seem to come here as part of a date.. Sandwich Sandwiche…