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Sakana no Nakasei: One of three great Tokyo restaurants for aged beef

Food & Drink | TOKYO FOOD FILE Jul 15, 2014

Sakana no Nakasei: One of three great Tokyo restaurants for aged beef

by Robbie Swinnerton

Tokyo's taste for high-end meat is maturing fast. For the cognoscenti, breed, provenance and fat content have long been critical. Now add one more key factor: aging. That's the focus at several new venues. At Ruby Jack's, the slick, chic steakhouse that opened in Ark ...

Jean-Georges Tokyo: New York super-chef adds Japan to his list of global outlets

Food & Drink | TOKYO FOOD FILE Jul 1, 2014

Jean-Georges Tokyo: New York super-chef adds Japan to his list of global outlets

by Robbie Swinnerton

France-born, New York-based super-chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten has some two dozen restaurants, spread over six countries on three continents. Now he's added Japan to that impressive list. Jean-Georges Tokyo opened in March in the compact premises near Roppongi Hills formerly occupied by Le Chocolat de H. ...

Butagumi Dining: Quality tonkatsu pork cutlets to eat and go

Food & Drink | TOKYO FOOD FILE Apr 15, 2014

Butagumi Dining: Quality tonkatsu pork cutlets to eat and go

by Robbie Swinnerton

What's not to like about the original Butagumi? Tokyo's temple to high-end tonkatsu (deep-fried pork cutlets) really is the finest in town. Where else serves such beautiful cuts of premium pork — from hand-reared breeds of "heritage" pigs — and in such a classic setting? There ...

Shonzui: Aging like a fine wine bar

Food & Drink | TOKYO FOOD FILE Dec 31, 2013

Shonzui: Aging like a fine wine bar

by Robbie Swinnerton

New is good; but sometimes a favorite old place is even better, especially when it comes to relaxing over a nice bottle. Shonzui is one of Tokyo's oldest specialist wine bar/diners, and it's still one of the best. While the rest of Roppongi has been ...

Juicy Chinese dumplings will Shanghai your taste buds

Food & Drink | A TASTE OF HOME Dec 31, 2013

Juicy Chinese dumplings will Shanghai your taste buds

by Rebecca Milner

People have opinions about xiao long bao. And for good reason: xiao long bao (or XLB, or soup dumplings, or shoronpo as they're called in Japanese) are enchanting: semi-translucent satchels of dough encasing balls of minced pork suspended in, curiously, soup. In that magnificent ...

Where to find brunch in Tokyo, and just the way you like it

Food & Drink | A TASTE OF HOME May 17, 2013

Where to find brunch in Tokyo, and just the way you like it

by Rebecca Milner

It's terrace season, and the thought of a drawn-out weekend brunch — sunglasses on, cocktail in hand — is likely to make any American go weak in the knees with homesickness. Fortunately for those in Tokyo there are several places that do a classic ...

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