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TOKYO FOOD FILE

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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 6, 2021
Xie Wang Fu: Auspicious ambience for high-end Chinese dining
The first overseas offshoot of Shanghai's best-known specialist crab restaurant is bringing the crustacean delicacy to Tokyo year-round.
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Jan 30, 2021
The Restaurant: Florilege protege gives local Gunma ingredients the high-end treatment
With a focus on local food products, the reborn Shiroiya Hotel has put Gunma Prefecture's capital city back on the culinary map.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 17, 2021
Shoku-Ishinho: Healing cuisine for body and soul
Shoku-Ishinho serves traditional yakuzen cuisine, which incorporates elements of Chinese herbal medicine, in an entirely contemporary aesthetic.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 17, 2021
Japan’s foundational ferment takes pride of place at Sano Miso
This preeminent purveyor's Ginza branch stocks 45 varieties of miso which you can sniff and sample with its in-house “misommelier.”
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 4, 2021
Shuka Nomoto: An intimate toast to 2021
This Ebisu-based izakaya is small, stylish and serves top-notch food — just what we need to carry us through 2021.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 19, 2020
The pandemic didn’t stop Tokyo’s foodies from dining out in 2020
The capital's restaurant scene saw plenty of culinary highlights that helped bring notes of optimism and positivity to a difficult year.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 6, 2020
Ginza Hachigo: Tokyo’s rising ramen star
From word-of-mouth favorite to media darling, this is one of the city's most unusual and excellent bowls, with a compelling backstory to boot.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 28, 2020
A genteel craft beer crawl through Kamakura
Being a tourist can be thirsty work, even in the genteel surrounds of Kamakura. Here are six of the former samurai capital's best watering holes.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 14, 2020
The Upper: Tokyo’s newest arrival is peak fine dining
Restaurant group Transit General Office has outdone itself in its new space, with a transportive menu devised by Michelin-starred chef Yusuke Takada.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 31, 2020
Shoto Lamp carries on a shining culinary lineage
Nobuhiro Kakinoki may have opened his restaurant during troubled times, but all the essential elements are in his favor.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 31, 2020
Sowado: Inscrutable facade conceals upscale izakaya
Tokyo restaurants don't get harder to book than chef Hideaki Sakai's highly anticipated second venue.
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Oct 17, 2020
At Bistro Nemot, a L’Effervescence alum spreads his wings
Norihito Nemoto's upscale bistro fare makes his laid-back restaurant one of the highlights of the still new and vibrant Eat Play Works complex.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 17, 2020
Whether in curry or gelato, Kalpasi’s spice blends are aromatic — and intriguing
Curry has been Tokyo's go-to comfort food this summer, and Curry Spice Gelateria Kalpasi's low-key June arrival hit the moment.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 3, 2020
Denkushiflori: Den and Florilege collaboration drives Tokyo’s hottest opening
Two of Tokyo's hottest chefs. A menu tethering contemporary Japanese to modern French cuisine. Tokyo has never seen an opening like Denkushiflori.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 19, 2020
Sincere Blue makes the case for sustainable seafood
Sincere Blue is Shinsuke Ishii's way of demonstrating that a French restaurant can offer seafood dishes that are sustainable, delicious and affordable.
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Sep 19, 2020
Noodle Stand Tokyo: ‘Ethical ramen’ in a freshly fashionable setting
The new Jingumae Comichi yokochu014d is an alluring space to while away the hours after work or on weekends.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 5, 2020
Rise & Win: A victory for beer lovers (and sustainability)
Rise & Win beer is brewed in the zero-waste town of Kamikatsu, and that philosophy is built into the foundation of its brewery and Tokyo taproom.
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Sep 5, 2020
Hasegawa Saketen Gransta: A sake lover's boon beneath Tokyo Station
Hasegawa Saketen's reborn Tokyo Station branch is larger, sleeker and even better stocked. It even boasts a new in-house sake microbrewery.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 29, 2020
Elegies and excitement in Tokyo’s dining landscape
Tokyo Food File wraps up summer 2020 with a look at how Tokyo's dining scene is shaping up in Year One of COVID-19.
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Aug 15, 2020
Omnipollos Tokyo: A bold, boozy newcomer to the craft beer scene
Omnipollo is no run-of-the-mill craft beer company, and its first Japanese outpost, Omnipollos Tokyo, lives up to the brand's quirky reputation.

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