Eunjujeong in Jongno and Leonidas in Myeongdong
I’ve made myself a list of Korean restaurants I want to clear, and I’m crossing them off one by one. I haven’t been living in Seoul that long yet, so there are quite a lot of places I want to…
I’ve made myself a list of Korean restaurants I want to clear, and I’m crossing them off one by one. I haven’t been living in Seoul that long yet, so there are quite a lot of places I want to…
I got to the airport with plenty of time to spare, so I decided to make dinner a bowl of ramen. Ideally I’d have eaten in central Tokyo, but I just couldn’t be bothered with anything. Besides, a sh…
I’d always dropped by Gucci Café just to buy chocolates, but this time it was hot and I had some time to kill, so I stayed for dessert. There are still a few places in Ginza I want to try, including the …
I finally made it, with some effort, to Kurogi, a Japanese restaurant rumoured to be really hard to book. Japan has quite a lot of places where getting a reservation is tough. You have to research ahead and ge…
I had always thought of Otsuka as a bit of a food desert, since it sits somewhat on the edge of Tokyo, but apparently there is one exception: a yakitori specialist called Souten, a nationally famous spot that …
Before every trip to Tokyo I usually go through the Tabelog rankings from top to bottom, and this time there was an Akasaka cake shop I’d never seen before, so I pushed myself to go. It was enough to mak…
I’d known for a while that Pierre Hermé has a café at its Aoyama shop, but only this time did I finally manage to drop by. It’s a café with a rather unusual concept, so I’d wanted to visit at…
After lunch I had a bit of time to kill before dinner, so I made the rounds of some of Tokyo’s famous sweets shops. The first stop was Mont St. Clair. It didn’t take as long to get there as I’…
I’d planned a trip to Japan over the holiday stretch from late March to early May, so this time I was able to book ahead at a place rumoured to be really hard to get into. A local foodie who lives there …
The afternoon tea set at the Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo’s lounge is one of the best in Tokyo, so it’s always popular and famously hard to book. The wide-open view over the city from the 38th floor is…
Six-star hotels usually don’t include meals, but the plan I booked this time had breakfast included in the room rate, so every morning I ate at the restaurant on the 38th floor. For non-guests the prices…
On a Sunday evening in Tokyo there’s honestly nowhere to go except Western restaurants. I guess the message is: don’t go out on a Sunday night, stay home with your family. But my friend wanted soba…