The older I get, the more I seem to go only to places I have already been. It may just be the process of turning into a stubborn old man stuck in his ways, but honestly, it is also because there are not many p…
Bona Festa, a French-style Russian restaurant in Asakusa, is one of the most delicious places I have discovered while living in Tokyo. I could not go while it was being renovated, but with autumn here, and as …
Hardly anyone in Korea knows this, I suspect, but Asakusa has no fewer than four well-known Russian restaurants. Nowhere else in Japan, let alone Tokyo, has Russian cuisine concentrated like this, and when I l…