Kushitaro, an Izakaya in Shinjuku
I think this was probably Aoyama. The building looked so good that I had to take a photo. Then I headed over to Shinjuku and went to Kushitaro for the first time in ages. Otoshi Mozuku seaweed. Lemon sour H…
I think this was probably Aoyama. The building looked so good that I had to take a photo. Then I headed over to Shinjuku and went to Kushitaro for the first time in ages. Otoshi Mozuku seaweed. Lemon sour H…
“Dosanko” means someone from Hokkaido. Dosanko is actually a really common name for a ramen shop — there are ones all over the country — so I had never paid it much attention. Turns out this one is…
Sumire is the miso ramen shop that represents Hokkaido, and now they have opened a branch in Yokohama. There was simply no way I could skip it. This is the place.. It was a fair size, actually. The table Mis…
New Tantanmen is not the tantanmen we all know. Yokohama opened up to the outside world early on, so it developed its own food culture, which means there are noodles here you won’t find anywhere else. Ne…
When I go somewhere with friends I tend to pick places where the odds of striking out are low, and on that score Makochan is a reassuring one. The place It’s the main branch, but a seat opened up right …
A friend of mine told me about a place in Ginza that does a great hamburg steak, so off I went. For the record, I’m no gourmet.. The place I’ve spent plenty of time in Ginza, but I had no idea a p…
I had some time to spare, so I wandered around Ginza for a bit. The regional specialty corner at a Ginza department store In the basement of a Ginza department store there’s a corner where you can buy t…
I was walking through Motomachi in Yokohama when a curious sign caught my eye. Like this.. I could hardly believe my eyes.. so up the stairs I went.. The entrance Sumibi Baisen Coffee Mu — charcoal-roasted c…
I end up having to go over to Hamamatsu a lot these days, so the posts will keep coming. You never know how life is going to turn out. An old warehouse A tsunami evacuation tower You see structures like this…
Nissin’s Shinpuku Saikan yakimeshi Not bad at all. And this one is the ramen Well… perfectly recreating the flavour of the original shop is a tall order, but you do get a rough sense of “ah, so t…
Someone like me has so many restaurants left to try that I rarely go back to a place twice, but that is not so easy when I am with friends. If anything, we end up going somewhere we know will not disappoint. K…
O to U is a really popular spot, so I’d been before, and this time I dropped in once more. Here’s the place. The main street of Motomachi is lined with historic old favourites… and since thi…