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Sushi Nogawa
Lounge

Sushi Kaiseki Nogawa not only serves excellent traditional yet innovative seasonal kaiseki and sushi, but is also located in tourist hotspot, Ginza, directly opposite the kabuki theatre, and has staff who can speak English and Mandarin. This rare combination of factors comes about from the fact that Chef Yoshio Nogawa, now 63, spent 38 years ...

Oct 15, 2010 | No Comments

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Taimeiken
Restaurants

The first Michelin guide to Tokyo published in the fall of 2007 didn’t list a single yoshoku—or Western food—restaurant, perhaps due to this gastronomic genre falling into the somewhat grey area of being a Japanese interpretation of Western cuisine. Yoshoku had its roots in the Meiji Restoration as the Japanese steeled their stomachs to catch ...

Aug 17, 2010 | No Comments

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Les Saisons
Lounge

Tokyoites are generally spoiled by the wealth of so many outstanding French restaurants available. Many Michelin-starred chefs from France have outlets in Tokyo; Joel Robuchon, Pierre Gagnaire, and Michel Troisgros, to name but a few. Included with this group is chef Thierry Voisin, who came to The Imperial Hotel to run the kitchen at Les ...

Jul 15, 2010 | No Comments

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Seirinkan
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As a New Yorker who visited Japan often in the early ‘70s as a child, I have ingrained in my memory a pizza that was topped with squid legs. I remember the disappointment of the tentacles peeking out from under the cheese almost taunting me. For the longest time I avoided pizza in Japan. Besides, ...

Jun 15, 2010 | No Comments

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Two Rooms
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Two Rooms near Omotesando has one of Tokyo’s best dream teams at the helm of the restaurant. In the kitchen, chef Matthew Crabbe’s impressive resume includes the New York Bar and Grill at the Park Hyatt and Kyoto’s Hyatt Regency. Eddie Baffoe was the popular bar manager at the Oak Door at the Grand Hyatt. ...

May 15, 2010 | One Comment

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One of the great delights of dining in Japan is the cornucopia of restaurants that specialize in one type of cuisine, as in the recent reviews of ramen at Ivan Ramen. Another unique dining experience is a meal based on pickles. Kintame, a store based in Kyoto, has two restaurants in Tokyo where diners can ...

Mar 15, 2010 | One Comment

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Ivan Ramen
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Feb 28, 2010 | One Comment

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Nihonbashi Yukari
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Jan 1, 2010 | No Comments

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