15 posts tagged “akasaka”
It was raining cats and dogs in the morning, but things were pretty calm by the time I met up with Gen to have lunch at Pita the Great. After lunch I headed to the Apple Store in Shibuya where the iPod Genius checked out my iPod Classic, declared a mechanical failure and replaced it with a new one.
BTW, Gen is having a heck of a difficult time with his Movable Type blog since Dreamhost has shut down his mt-comments.cgi. There's a grand plan being hatched to fix this, but since I'm doing the hatching any other ideas from other more knowledgable folks (WINK! WINK!), would be appreciated.
朝には土砂降りだった雨も昼頃には殆どやんでいた、 Gen と赤坂のPita the Greatで合流. 昼ご飯の後は渋谷のアップルストアでiPod ClassicをiPod Geniusに診断される。「機械故障」、「初期不良」のワンツーで新しいiPod Classicに交換。途中iPhoneの話を軸にアップルの秘密主義、Nokia N95の素晴らしさ、MacBook Airが中途半端で駄目な事などを会話する。
ついでにだが、Genは最近自身のMovable Typeブログで非常に困っている。Dreamhostがmt-comments.cgiをブロックしたからコメントを受けられない。直す計画もたてているけどたてているのが僕だから、不安はある。もう少しMovable Type知っている人が周りいたらなー。。。。がはははは。 ブログで初めて顔文字を使ってみる 。 σ(^◇^;)
And the pitas were once again magnificent. Though the streak of people going to Pita the Great and declaring that the guy needs staff continues.
ピタは激うま、ただしあのお店はもう一人でも良いからスタッフが必要。
今日の親子丼は味噌親子丼。親子丼に味噌、久しぶりの親子丼だけどはじめての味、美味しいよ。
Lunch was a chicken and egg rice bowl (known as the "parent-child bowl" in Japan, seriously).
- 宵の口 (よいのくち)
- 港区赤坂４−３−２９
- 03-5575-7433
- 日曜・祝日
- 12:00〜14:30 18:00〜23:00
いつも重要な月曜日の昼ご飯選びだが、今回はいつもにまして慎重に考えることに。
goya seemed to be in mid-week form even though it was still Monday morning. Monday lunches are already pretty important because they can set the tone for the whole week, but with the way goya was pacing himselves where we went to lunch was going to have a huge on a lot of things.
そして最初の候補は赤坂通のやすべぇ。正直ちょっと、fumiakiyがフライイング気味に選ぶ。ただ、大体の方向を選ぶのが重要。途中、お寿司屋さん？に行きそうになるけど、やすべぇにたどり着くが、やすべぇは混んでいたので計画を変更してTexasへ。
The orginal plan was to get dipped ramen at Yasube's on Akasaka dori. We headed over that way and almost wandered into a sushi joint but made it to the ramen joint, only to find a line. We then changed our plans and headed towards Texas for steaks.
Texasのとなりのとんかつ屋さんの中も見たが、人が多くタバコも多そうだったので、Texasに行く（ここも禁煙じゃないけど）。
We stuck our heads into a Tonkatsu place on the way, but the plume of cigarette smoke made it easy for us to decide to stay on course and go to Texas.
Mondays' at Texas are Hamburg Steak days, and the special was a double order of hamburg steaks on rice with sauce. After looking at the other options (all meat. . .lots of meat), I settled on the special.
Good Times.
うーむ、お店の名前は忘れた、結構横を歩いているけど入ったこと無かったけど、4人で行く。
中にあべさんとやぎしたさんがいた。そして、マグロのリブを食べていた。。。おいしそうだった。だからマグロのどんぶりをオーダーしてあべさんが残したのを少し食べた。
おいしかった、安かった。
おいしかった肉。
今日のランチのお店の名前は。。。何だっけ。1軒目に入ろうと思ったお店はあまり魅力を感じずやめて。親子丼が美味しそうなお店は親子丼が無かった。3軒目、道から少し入ったところだけど、道にサランラップで巻いただけの料理を展示。夏はどうするのかね？で、三色丼、鮭がきれていたから鰤。美味しかった、やすかった。タバコ吸っている人もすぐ帰ったし。
三宅島の人はマグロのカマをオーダー、美味しそうだった。
今日は、ランチするためにAtsushiとGoyaと一緒に乃木坂に向かう。目標はステーキハウス・ハマ。ランチのハンバーグステーキが美味しいらしい、気の利いた事は言えない、ただ美味しかった。納得して。
鉄板で焼いてすぐに食べる、和風ソース（大根おろし、醤油）とデミグラスソースを選べる、どっちも美味しいけど、ステーキがヘビーなので、和風ソースかな？
唯一いやだったのが食後に移ったラウンジがタバコの煙がいっぱいたまっていた。
Went out to Nogizaka with Atsushi and Goya to sit down for some lunch. We had some hamburg steaks at the Steak House Hama.
It was an inspired choice, a great way to end the working week. We had a great "meating," with the only downer being the heavy smoking in the after meal lounge.
住所 |
〒106-0032 東京都港区六本木7-2-10 |
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アクセス |
日比谷線六本木駅 徒歩8分 |
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TEL |
※お問い合わせの際はぐるなびを見たとお伝えになるとスムーズです。
03-3403-1717 03-3403-1718 |
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営業時間 |
ランチ 月〜金 11:30〜14:00 |
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定休日 |
無休 | ||
I still haven't figure out how to get shots of the moon, but if you combine these two photos in your head you might get some idea about how beautiful it was the other night.
fumiakiy just HAD to have his Tendon (Tempura rice bowl) today, so we braved the winter rain to go down to Akasaka and Tenshige. Mr. Japan Tobacco (YUJI) and I had Kakiage-don's and Atsushi and fumiakiy had their Tendon. The mix was pretty oily, but it was overall a tasty experience. We went by Starbucks on the way back to the office. To prepare to get drenched. And drenched we were. . .
Just some random Tempura related trivia from Wikipedia:
"Batter-coated deep frying was introduced to the Japanese by Portuguese missionaries during the 16th century. The word tempura derives from the Portuguese missionaries' custom of eating fish during Lent due to the Catholic proscription against eating meat during this period: in Latin, "ad tempora quadragesimae", meaning "in the time of Lent"."
I've heard the theory that the name Tempura comes from the Knights Templar also, perhaps the holy grail is in the batter. Or perhaps more important:
"Western chefs frequently include tempura dishes on their menus but seldom with 'authentic' results. This largely stems from a misunderstanding about mixing the batter which, in classic cookery must be beaten until homogeneous. Good tempura batter is mixed with chopsticks, but only for a few seconds. This leaves numerous lumps in the mixture and results in the unique tempura structure when cooked. Also crucial is that tempura batter be made freshly, with ice-cold water, in small batches."
| 店名 | 天茂 | ||
| 住所 | 東京都港区赤坂3-6-10 第3セイコービル 2F | ||
| 電話 | 03-3584-3746 | ||
| 営業時間 | 11:30〜14:00、18:30〜20:30 | ||
| 定休日 | 土・日曜、祝日 | ||
Junに「ヌーブラのお店のはす向かいにある新しい刀削麺屋さん」と紹介されてチャレンジした唐家、ホームページは無いが（『 刀削麺荘 唐家 赤坂店』 港区赤坂3-20-2. 第3福富ビル１F ）です。
赤坂のその他の刀削麺よりは美味しいでしょうと意見もあったが、味が結構違うので好みの問題？ただ、ここは麺が以外はほとんどありません。
気になる事は食券を渡すときに「シャンツァイなしでお願いします」と言ったら、「不要香菜嗎？」と中国語で返事が来たこと。こっちも中国語で思わず答えてしまったが。。。中国人と思われたのか、それともこれがこのお店のサービス？
Jun had mentioned that "there's a new Daoxiaomian place in Akasaka across from the Nubra store," wishing to kill two birds with one stone, I set out to see what was up.
The noodles were thinner than the Daoxiaomian that I am used to, and the soup was a bit different also, but it wasn't bad. Just a different type of Daoxiaomian from what I am used to.
When I was handing over my food tickets, I asked for no coriander on my noodles. The waitress asked me in Chinese if i didn't want coriander. I replied back in Chinese, but I was left wondering why she asked me in Chinese.
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