Mitsumasa, a Skewer Joint in Shinbashi
I went back for another try at Mitsumasa, where last time I left without eating properly. This time I wanted to enjoy the real taste of pork skewers. Starting with beer Summer is hot, so all the more reason …
I went back for another try at Mitsumasa, where last time I left without eating properly. This time I wanted to enjoy the real taste of pork skewers. Starting with beer Summer is hot, so all the more reason …
There was a time when I loved Ochanomizu and went there constantly. Back then I mostly ate Western-style food like curry. I only found out fairly recently that there’s a famous udon shop there. It’…
I first heard the name Restaurant Narisawa a long time ago, but I never felt a strong urge to go. It’s not bad value for the price, but if you only tried to hit the must-visit special restaurants (Quinte…
The theme of this Tokyo trip was Spanish food. If you want to eat Spanish food, the right thing is obviously to go to Spain, but with my line of work there is no way I could ever get enough time off to spend t…
Levain used to be famous, but these days there are so many good bakeries that it honestly isn’t a place you need to go out of your way for. I really should be visiting Le Petit Mec, the hottest bakery of…
Plenty of places sell tofu, but only a handful serve tofu that is genuinely delicious. In fact, lots of people go through life without ever knowing that truly delicious tofu exists. On this Tokyo trip, a frien…
Before heading off to Haneda I stopped by Tokyo Station for a bit. The Talisker 175th Anniversary bottle I’d spotted at Liquors Hasegawa a while ago kept nagging at me, so I went back specifically to buy…
Ginpei in Ginza is a Japanese restaurant that came up from Osaka. Dinner is a rather pricey full course, but lunch is cheap and generous, which has made it famous among the office workers around here. You get…
I don’t have much reason to come out to Uguisudani, so since I was here I couldn’t skip the local favorite. This is a place called Yakiniku Uguisudanien. Honestly, a Korean doesn’t really …
I go back and forth to Tokyo so often, and visit the famous dessert shops every time I’m here, that by now I’ve been to almost all the major ones I wanted to try. The one that (probably) caps it al…
There were a few well-known ramen shops in Tokyo I still hadn’t made it to, and this time one of them opened a branch on Tokyo Ramen Street under Tokyo Station, so I went. Ikaruga is famous for its women…
This was a short weekend trip, so I couldn’t get around much. Here’s a record of the quick little rounds I made. Gramercy Newyork in the basement of Takashimaya, Shinjuku I heard they sell a che…