Tag: yakitori

New Versions of Two Old Favorites: Edomasa and Shukuzū

Two of my most favorite restaurants near where I live recently were more or less forced to undergo some major changes, in one place for the better, and in the other, I still not sure. Both are tachinomi-ya (stand and eat and drink) places I have frequented for nearly my entire time in Japan, Edomasa, in Higashinihonbashi, and Shukuzū in Ningyōchō. First, the change for the better:   For the second time in the past seven years […]

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Hashigoro はしご楼

Hashigoro はしご楼 A new building full of restaurants opened last week in Ningyōchō, Hashigoro. It’s on the corner of Kinza dori and Ningyōchō dori on the site of a former shoe repair shop and something else that I don’t ever recall seeing open for business. It’s a Mitsubishi project, which surprised me as Nihonbashi is mostly Mitsui territory. It consists of five floors of restaurants offering all sorts of Japanese and foreign cuisines, each restaurant more or […]

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Edomasa is Open Again!

Edomasa Open Again! This past Saturday, July 3, I went to my favorite yakitori place, Edomasa, tiny shop in Higashinihonbashi that has been around for nearly 100 years.. They had been closed since the start of the most recent so called state of emergency was imposed as it just wasn’t worth opening up to do take out only yakitori, especially when their most famous item, nama (raw minced chicken) can’t be sold for takeout, at least not […]

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