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RESTAURANTS

Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 1, 2005
Sekirei: In a beer garden of heavenly delights
The grass is as closely mowed a croquet lawn. In the distance, conifers jut into the early evening sky. The air is sultry, the city traffic just a far-off hum. A waiter wearing a black bow tie delivers a tall glass of frothing beer to your table. You sink back in your armchair. Summer's here, and there...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 17, 2005
Tribes: An African heart beats in Kagurazaka
Not so long ago, Kagurazaka was one of this city's most traditional neighborhoods, its alleys still echoing from the days when it was an important geisha district. Though some of its old character survives, these days it has much more of an international nature -- especially when it comes to dining out....
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 10, 2005
Sushi Ouchi: There's nothing to fear in naturally good sushi
Entering an old-school Edomae sushi shop for the first time can be daunting -- even for the most self-confident of us. The welcome is often so vocal it verges on the aggressive. The cedarwood counters look scrubbed to the point of sterility, the gleaming bright interiors afford little sense of warmth...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 3, 2005
Da Pasquale: Premium pizza in a spiced-up setting
The hunt for the perfect pizza, much like the surfer's search for the ultimate wave, is an unending quest. That doesn't mean we are never satisfied. On occasion we have come tantalizingly close to achieving our goal. And for that we must thank the good folks at Isola.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 13, 2005
A Tokyo hotline to Bangkok
Hyakunincho, Tokyo's most polyglot district, is only a two-minute train ride from the heart of Shinjuku, but it almost feels like leaving the country. In the 1980s, when Southeast Asian food was still a novelty in other parts of town, this was where we came to forage, lured by the exotic perfume of lemongrass,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 15, 2005
Matsuba Chaya: Buddha, soba and the great outdoors
Spring is here, the sap is rising, buds are budding and the Food File's fancy turns to . . . noodles? Out in Chofu, heartland of Tokyo's bed-town suburbia?
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 1, 2005
Osteria La Luna Rossa: Moon shines brightly in Naka-Meguro
La Luna Rossa is one of those excellent little places that fly under the critical radar, avoiding the hyperventilation of the vernacular media but generating a deep, slow-sure buzz of appreciation among the culinary cognoscenti. In the parlance of the showbiz world, it's a sleeper.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 18, 2005
Sosaibo: Zen to warm the soul
Zen is austere and meditative. It is the practice of ascetic self-denial on the path to serenity and satori. It is the cult of monochrome and minimalism. Above all, it is serious -- and so is its food, the vegetarian tradition known as shojin ryori.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 4, 2005
Casa Paradis Barcelona: Tapas and paella in Shibuya
Much like Pavlov's poor, sad, salivating dogs, we can never pass a restaurant without going inside if there's a paella pan, some empty sherry bottles and a red-and-yellow flag outside. This weakness for Spanish food often results in disappointment: mediocre tapas and the music of The Gypsy Kings can...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 18, 2005
Restaurant t.r: A 't.r iffic' little diner
One of Tokyo's unique pleasures is being able to eat out in restaurants that are no bigger -- and often considerably smaller -- than your own living room. There are thousands of places around the city with kitchens the size of closets and counters that seat less than a dozen, but which nonetheless serve...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 4, 2005
In search of the real flavor of Yokohama's Chukagai
In some quarters it's become almost knee-jerk to denigrate Yokohama's Chinatown. Too clean and tidy, they sneer, it feels like a theme park. It's just for tourists. And, the most serious charge of all, the food just isn't authentic. To which the Food File would retort: Perhaps so; not necessarily; and...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 21, 2005
Inakaya East: Performance art of the robatayaki
As you slide open the door and enter, a chorus of yells assails your ears, echoing around the room. Before you are even seated, there will be more shouts and responses unleashed by the same bevy of full-throated floor staff. And then again when you order that first drink. And so on all evening. Welcome...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 7, 2005
Ebisu Imaiya Saryou: A yakitori pavilion that rules the roost
A brave new Year of the Rooster has dawned -- so what better way to celebrate it than by eating one? On such auspicious occasions as this, naturally, only the finest fowl will do -- and it's hard to find any that taste better than the variety known as Hinai jidori.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 17, 2004
Raising a glass to the Food File's faves
The goose is getting fat and so too is your humble correspondent, after another year of gobbling his way through some of the best dining that Tokyo has to offer -- not to mention a sizable dollop of the mediocre and worse. But it's not just gluttony that keeps the Food File going, nor merely devotion...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 3, 2004
Olives Tokyo: For a night to remember
It was one of those evenings that called for -- nay, stridently demanded -- a special celebration. Not a quiet, intimate table a deux; nor some sober parade of rarified gourmet delicacies; but a full-on, self-indulgent feast in a setting to match. It was time for dinner at Olives.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 19, 2004
Kizakura: Game, set and match in fashion central
Food is fashion in this city and, inevitably, food is also foreplay -- especially in the ritzier parts of town. More often than we care to recall we have found that swish furnishings and subdued lighting are danger signals, warning of meals that are self-conscious, mediocre and overpriced. How nice it...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 5, 2004
Nezu Club: Closer to real soul of Tokyo
Just like stepping back in time. The soul of traditional Tokyo. Ancient Edo preserved in amber.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 15, 2004
Kitchen: S.E. Asian fare with a personal touch
Unlikely as it may seem, there's a vegetable boom sweeping the nation. And no food dovetails better with this new healthy ethos than Vietnamese -- at least the way it is eaten in its homeland.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 1, 2004
Top tapas made the Tio Danjo way
Tio Danjo is not a large place, and it's hard enough at the best of times to reserve a table at short notice. At the end of last month, though, it was nigh on impossible. Owner-chef Keita Danjo had just come back from one of his regular visits to Madrid, and the word was out among regular customers....
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 17, 2004
Food fit for a doge on canals of Venice
Eating where the tourists eat is always a risky proposition, especially in a city like Venice, whose sole raison d'e^tre is tourism. Along the city's main arteries and tourist sites, the restaurants are often disappointing -- and sometimes even disastrous. But, as we found on a quick visit there earlier...
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Magnitude 5.0 earthquake jolts Nagano
A map showing the location of an earthquake that hit Nagano Prefecture on Friday evening, with the numbers indicating the seismic intensity on the shindo scale to 7.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.
LDP and CDP lawmaker groups propose 0% consumption tax on food
A vegetable stand displays prices at a supermarket in Tokyo in 2023. Some lawmakers are proposing lowering the consumption tax on food to 0%, which is expected to result in a loss of up to ¥5 trillion in tax revenue annually.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Kyotographie 2025 opts for laughter and levity in the face of global strife
Palestinian American photographer Adam Rouhana’s exhibition at this year’s Kyotographie festival shows Palestinian life, not death and rubble.

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