Wine Bistro Endo Risaburo Shoten, Oshiage
I stopped by Endo Risaburo Shoten, one of the best-known wine bistros in Tokyo’s old shitamachi district. The plan was just to have a casual drink. I dropped in late on a weekend evening and the place wa…
I stopped by Endo Risaburo Shoten, one of the best-known wine bistros in Tokyo’s old shitamachi district. The plan was just to have a casual drink. I dropped in late on a weekend evening and the place wa…
Spice Cafe in Oshiage is a place with a Tabelog score in the 4.0s that serves a curry course meal. It is so popular that you cannot get in without a reservation. For that score the prices are on the cheap side…
I had some business at Tokyo Skytree, so I stopped by. Bean sweets from Fève Fève is a new shop by chef Tsujiguchi, famous for Mont St. Clair. You could call it a modern take on the traditional Japanese con…
Lately I have been eating dessert at home a lot more. To tidy things up, I am posting them all in one go. Snob and Exquis from Au Bon Vieux Temps Both are cakes I had tried once before, and I bought them ag…
On my way home I happened to stumble on a Cacao Sampaka cafe. I go to the Cacao Sampaka near Tokyo Station fairly often, but I had no idea they had opened a cafe this big in Aoyama. It does not look like much …
With spring here I felt like going out somewhere, and while wondering where to go I decided to try Blue Note Tokyo, which I had never been to. Honestly the point was going to Blue Note Tokyo itself, so I did n…
Asahi Beer has its headquarters in Asakusa, and there are quite a few restaurants run directly by the company. 23banchi Cafe is one of them, and with head-office staff stationed there, the beer can only be goo…
Hikifune is a neighborhood one or two train stops from Asakusa. There is a well-regarded cake shop there called Avignon, so I set aside a little time on the weekend and went over. The front entrance The sig…
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 had already reserved Moriizo chocolates for Valentine’s Day this year, but another chocolate looked so good that I simply could not resist buying it. It is called Honey Bee Garden, a Valentine’s …
Sumida Bar Vigor is a Spanish bar near my place. It sits right in front of the Skytree and stays open pretty late. I went for Valentine’s Day.. which means this post is already a month late. House-made …
Aburasoba Tsubaki is an aburasoba specialist in Ueno. It is a spin-off of Chuka Soba Tsubaki, the well-known ramen shop. The front entrance It was late, but the place was packed, and with just one person wo…