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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Apr 1, 2001
Barraca: A cure for the Andalucian blues
Just recently back in town after a leisurely sojourn in Andalucia and suffering bad withdrawal symptoms, we headed down to cozy old Barraca. It's not the most creative Spanish restaurant in Tokyo, perhaps, nor the best-known. Nor does it operate at anything like those late, late Spanish hours. But for...
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 22, 2001
Islands in the stream of Indian cuisine
It was no accident that led us to Athara Petara -- we always keep an ear to the ground for the latest of good new venues for foods from other parts of Asia. But anyone fortunate enough to stumble upon this friendly little eatery by chance will understand immediately why the word serendipity was coined...
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 8, 2001
Pizza, extra artistry, hold the delivery
Sometimes the craving strikes and second-best just won't do.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 22, 2001
Sticking to sophisticated yakitori
Yakitori. The term covers a multitude of chicken possibilities, ranging from smoky yatai and stand-up nomiya under the proverbial tracks all the way to plush establishments for Ginza madames where every bird on the menu is reared in free-range bliss, cooked over premium charcoal and washed down with...
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 8, 2001
Brash, bright, cheerful and fun
As a matter of principle, the Food File doesn't write up places within the first few weeks of their opening. Instead we prefer to wait until the kitchen has settled in properly and recovered from the inevitable strain of dealing with the local media and the surge of customers that inevitably follow.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 8, 2001
Roti: Brash, bright, cheerful and fun
As a matter of principle, the Food File doesn't write up places within the first few weeks of their opening. Instead we prefer to wait until the kitchen has settled in properly and recovered from the inevitable strain of dealing with the local media and the surge of customers that inevitably follow.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 25, 2001
Isegen: Stoking the inner embers, Edo style
As the snow wafts down and the forecasters warn of arctic conditions to come, spare a thought for the folks of ancient Edo, who had to make it through the winter months without such essential survival tools as fleece jackets, cup ramen and Hokaron hand warmers.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jan 11, 2001
Taking stock of the new ryori
Before intrepidly setting out to eat our way through this brave new century, let us pause briefly to consider the state of contemporary Japanese dining. Needless to say, the situation is very different from 100 years ago, when most people were fed by itinerant hawkers, yatai stalls or simple food outlets...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 28, 2000
Looking back at the future
In honor of that particularly Japanese custom of creating instant tradition ("Since 1999"), this last column of the year peers forward by looking back. Here are just three of the many new places we have visited and enjoyed during the past 12 months but never got around to writing up.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Dec 14, 2000
Dining out in year-end style
With Christmas a mere 10 days away, it is unlikely that anyone has failed to make their arrangements for celebrations, either on the day itself or during the Yuletide run-up. However, just in time for the season of good cheer, overeating and loosening of purse strings, here are two places (opened in...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 23, 2000
A night at the culinary opera
Let it be stated unequivocably and from the outset: The Food File is not a great fan of gastrodomes and flashy new mega-restaurants where style outweighs substance and quality is sacrificed at the altar of fleeting fashion. Nor are we enamored of restaurant chains, where menus -- no matter how titillatingly...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Nov 9, 2000
Now is the season of our great content
It's all too easy to take for granted a restaurant of the caliber of Les Saisons. Ensconced within the venerable portals of the Imperial Hotel, it is plush, self-assured and runs with the same effortless reliability as a well-tuned Bentley sports car. You just know that an evening at table is going to...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 27, 2000
The highs and lows of izakaya dining
The ethereal, powder-blue fiber-optic lights that illuminate the entrance to Yui-an give a remarkable sense of stepping into another dimension -- a sensation heightened by the high-speed elevator ride to the top of the Sumitomo Building. With your brain suitably befuddled before you even get through...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 12, 2000
Cardenas Charcoal Grill: Californian fare grilled to perfection
Fumihiro Nakamura does not affect the expansive personality and well-studied bonhomie of a born restaurateur in the classic European mold. Nor does he in any way exude the slick professionalism and marketing savvy of the streetwise MBAs who scheme up and preside over flash designer eateries for cash-flush...
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 12, 2000
Californian fare grilled to perfection
Fumihiro Nakamura does not affect the expansive personality and well-studied bonhomie of a born restaurateur in the classic European mold. Nor does he in any way exude the slick professionalism and marketing savvy of the streetwise MBAs who scheme up and preside over flash designer eateries for cash-flush...
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 28, 2000
Trendy slurping in Azabu-Juban
All things must pass -- especially, it seems, the good stuff. So a final farewell, then, to the old Azabu-Juban we used to know and love, with its funky, friendly mom 'n' pop stores, cheap nomiya and overpriced wine bars, and its faintly musty smells of onsen and kimchi.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 14, 2000
Hannibal: Tunisian flavors in Shin-Okubo
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 14, 2000
Tunisian flavors in Shin-Okubo
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 24, 2000
Al fresco evenings in Heisei style
Just when you feel it's safe to venture out of the air conditioning to enjoy a drink or three in the mellow evening air of the late summer, that's about the time most beer gardens are starting to think about shutting down for the year.
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 10, 2000
Spicing up life on the Shonan coast
This is hardly the most obvious name for an Indian restaurant. It started life some four years ago as a friendly little Bengal-accented cafe-restaurant in the back streets on the other side of the station, quickly making a name for itself as a reliable spot for authentic Indian cooking. Then three months...

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