Le Coin Vert, a Cake Shop in Kagurazaka
I picked up a copy of Sweets Bancho’s The Ten Supreme Sweets at Sanseido, read the whole thing that evening and went straight into analysis mode. ^_^ Turns out there are so, so many cake shops I still ha…
I picked up a copy of Sweets Bancho’s The Ten Supreme Sweets at Sanseido, read the whole thing that evening and went straight into analysis mode. ^_^ Turns out there are so, so many cake shops I still ha…
I was strolling right through the middle of Ginza when I ran into an event for Toyama Black ramen. Toyama Black is a somewhat extreme style of regional ramen, and I had my eye on it because it has been doing w…
My friends and I decided to grab a meal somewhere around Ginza, but there was no obvious place to go. The good spots either need a reservation, or cost too much, or have a queue, or just are not the kind of pl…
Hamamatsucho has great transport links, so knowing a few good places to eat around there comes in handy. I stumbled on this udon shop while passing through and popped in. Konpira is the name of a mountain in S…
The second place we dropped into was La Matière, a French restaurant in Kagurazaka famous for its value for money. It has been well reviewed since the day it opened and is notorious for being all but impossibl…
I came in through Narita and arrived in Ueno, and since I was right there I finally dropped by Dominique Saibron, the croissant specialty shop inside Ueno Station that I’d been wanting to try for ages. …
Kagurazaka is full of high-end restaurants with Michelin stars, but it also has plenty of places that are great value for the money. Brasserie Gus is one of those well-reviewed spots. Precisely because it is s…
I was flying back to Korea on an evening flight out of Haneda, but I had dinner plans, so I met a friend in Hamamatsucho. The monorail from Hamamatsucho gets you to Haneda Airport’s international termina…
It was a short trip, but I found a gap in the schedule and went back to Echire, the butter pastry shop. It’s been open for quite a while now, yet it’s still popular enough that you have to queue on…
I’ve been keeping up a pattern of fine dining by day and izakaya-hopping by night. This day, too, I’d heard about a delicious izakaya that competes on shellfish dishes alone, so I went to check it …
Sant Pau in Nihonbashi is the Tokyo branch of a restaurant that holds three Michelin stars in Spain. It’s a famous place with two stars in the Tokyo Michelin guide too, and as you’d expect with tho…
Needing to top up on carbs, I headed to Nagi, a ramen shop that’s supposed to be doing pretty well in Shinjuku. There are three Nagi shops in Shinjuku, and the one I went to was the Nishi-Shinjuku branch…