Posted in Food, Restaurants, Travel on Thursday, April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The food geek universe has recently been abuzz with the news that Tokyo has more Michelin stars than any city in the world, including Paris. In fact, it has twice as many as Paris. I couldn’t really offer anything beyond mere conjecture as to how this happened, as the publishers of the Michelin Guide are [...]
Posted in Food, Society and Culture, Travel on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
With the exception of beer and grocery shopping, I don’t really count kaimono (literally “buying things”) among my hobbies. However, I must say I had a fine time shopping in Tokyo, mostly because I visited two markets that catered to a couple of my principal materialist pursuits: New Balance sneakers and exciting food.
The first market [...]
Posted in Art, Film, Food, History, Society and Culture, Travel on Thursday, April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Tokyo is much too big to stuff into one, or even two or three blog posts. I have broken down my excursion into six categories and will be posting them as a series over the next couple weeks.
The amount of galleries and museums in Tokyo is almost overwhelming. Even more daunting is the fact that [...]
