Guillaume, a Bakery in Cheongdam-dong
Even if the meal itself was a simple hanjeongsik (Korean set meal), a true doenjang-nam (a guy who puts on Western airs) has to finish with French-style dessert, right? It’s not a bakery I particularly l…
Even if the meal itself was a simple hanjeongsik (Korean set meal), a true doenjang-nam (a guy who puts on Western airs) has to finish with French-style dessert, right? It’s not a bakery I particularly l…
I had an appointment in Cheongdam-dong, so I booked a decent restaurant nearby. Since I absolutely have to eat Korean food -_-, it goes without saying it had to be a Korean restaurant. The place recommended to…
This holds for any – geeky – field: keep digging into one thing long enough and stuff that’s generally considered good stops being much fun, and you drift toward the odd and the obscure. I felt that clea…
I’m back in Korea after quite a while. On my first day I had some errands to run in Sinchon, and when I was wondering where to go for dinner afterwards, this place, Yuil Gopchang, was recommended to me. …
A friend called me out, so I went to Kobe for the first time in a while. It was a day trip, the friend who invited me isn’t exactly a foodie, and it was pouring rain, so it wasn’t the most fulfilli…
Right before heading home at the end of a business trip to Tokyo, I dropped by, with some friends, a place I’d been dying to visit! It’s the café run by a bakery called VIRON in Shibuya, which serv…
As luck would have it, there was a festival going on in Shirokane. I’d been planning to have lunch, but decided to just graze on some street snacks instead. An amateur orchestra playing I can’t …
While wandering around Ebisu I stopped for lunch at an Italian restaurant tucked away in a hidden spot. The location is so obscure that even with a map it was really hard to find. The front entrance Who wou…
I headed out to Ebisu for an appointment, and the weather was gorgeous. On a day like this, pretty much any photo you take comes out well. Landscapes, that is. Portraits, not so much. So here are some photos I…
This time I booked a place in Roppongi. Food, shopping and sightseeing are all packed into one area, so when I can’t be bothered to travel far, nowhere beats Roppongi. Most tourists are probably better o…
Matagi is a robatayaki in Roppongi. The senior member who handles Tokyo for the gourmet club I’m part of said this place looked good and suggested we go, so I went in with high hopes. When I looked it up…
Yakiniku is always delicious. The only shame is that it’s too pricey to go often. This time a get-together came up out of the blue, and after mulling over where to go, I settled on this place, which I re…