Takahashiya, Mt. Takao
After coming down from Mt. Takao, I went straight into a soba shop near the trailhead. There is not much to eat up on the mountain, and the best option around seemed to be a soba place called Takahashiya. Tea…
After coming down from Mt. Takao, I went straight into a soba shop near the trailhead. There is not much to eat up on the mountain, and the best option around seemed to be a soba place called Takahashiya. Tea…
The weekend came around again and I had no plans at all. I have been doing nothing but work lately and had no time to move my body, so I went to Mt. Takao to at least get a hike in. Honestly, it is such a smal…
With the Mauritshuis in the Netherlands closed for renovation, Tokyo got the chance to see Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, the legendary painting they call the Mona Lisa of the North. There was no w…
Asakusa is a tourist district with a long history, so it has plenty of famous old restaurants. Daikokuya is one of those tourist-spot institutions, and while it is not cheap, the tempura that came out was deli…
A lot of people around me have birthdays in August, so we had a birthday dinner together. yum yum in Shibaura seems to be a sister restaurant of Tsubame Grill, and it turned out to be a pretty good place for a…
I heard a rumour that there was a decent yakitori place in Ueno, so I went along with a member of my foodie club. The place is called Torie, and its Tabelog score was very high. Nikomi Looking at the menu, …
I had been to Shirogane Baru once before, and since someone requested going again, we decided to head there this time too. Gelateria Acqua Pazza Before going to Shirogane Baru I got off at Hiroo Station and…
My first stop fell through and I could not just head home like that, so I looked for somewhere to grab a simple bowl of soba, and a place called Karibe came up in the search. The otoshi Deep-fried shrimp he…
A friend put in a request for good soba that day, so the plan was to try Kyorakutei in Kagurazaka, but.. oh no, they had already closed early for the long weekend. So I just searched for places nearby and up c…
I had heard for ages that there was an izakaya in Tsukishima with a perpetual line, and this time I finally got the chance to go. When the line is that long, there are not many people you can drag along with y…
I heard that in the shitamachi neighborhood of Monzen-nakacho there was an izakaya run as a retirement pastime by an owner-chef who used to run the kitchen at Sushi Sasaki, a famous sushi restaurant in Ginza, …
Tempura Osaka in Shinbashi is a place I had been to once before and walked out of seriously impressed. If you judge it by lunch alone, finding a tempura place with better value than this is close to impossible…