Unatoto, a Cheap Unagi Joint in Shinbashi
There’s a cheap unagi place in Shinbashi. It’s actually a chain with branches beyond Shinbashi, and all of the locations have a decent reputation. Entrance Pretty run-down looking. Salad Unadon …
There’s a cheap unagi place in Shinbashi. It’s actually a chain with branches beyond Shinbashi, and all of the locations have a decent reputation. Entrance Pretty run-down looking. Salad Unadon …
There is one highly rated unagi specialist in Asakusa. Unagi prices have gone up lately, so I had been hesitating, but I went with the feeling that if not now, when would I ever get to try it. The front entra…
On Sundays there’s not really anywhere good to eat apart from Western restaurants. So the place I picked was Miyagawa Honten, the unagi shop on the restaurant floor of Matsuya department store in Ginza. …
Since our foodie expedition crew had finally made it to Japan, we had to eat the signature dishes: unagi, soba, sushi and ramen. So for the morning of day two we picked an eel restaurant. Two-layer unagi bowl…
In Japan, pretty much every neighbourhood has at least one good place for eel, tonkatsu and sushi. Partly for that reason, and partly because it isn’t eel season right now, I didn’t particularly wa…
Yesterday was Japan’s eel-eating day, a bit like Korea’s boknal. Just as we eat samgyetang on boknal, it’s meant to be a day to eat eel in summer and get your strength back, but really itR…
Last holiday I opened a Fritz Haag Riesling 2005, completely unplanned, just to test my new sommelier knife, and it was delicious. Fruity aromas tickling the nose, a refreshing acidity, and little bubbles popp…
When I asked around about what to eat in Nagoya, everyone said the same thing: you really should try hitsumabushi. Well, going by the guidebooks it looked like a pretty ordinary eel rice bowl, and at 2,500 yen…