Now that the holiday feasting is just a fast-fading memory, it's time to tighten the belt and rein in the spending. No more high-end splurges: These days we're staying strictly street level.
Not that we're complaining: We know plenty of places to eat and drink well without breaking the bank. And when it comes to settling in for a simple session with some good, affordable wine and food to match, few can hold a candle to Fujiya Honten Grill Bar.
If the name sounds familiar, that's because it was set up by Fujiya Honten, the cult-classic standing-only wine bar close to Shibuya Station. It also shares most of the same core values: a massive selection of budget wines that cost little more than you'd pay for them retail; a total lack of pretension and wine snobbery; and not a single chair to sit on in the entire house.