What did you eat last night for dinner?

[mgm9128]



How did you make the broth?

Brown sliced onion and ham trimming in a little oil, add some of the black bass bones to brown, then toast star anise and crushed green peppercorn, deglaze with a bit of sherry vinegar, add water, simmer for 15 minutes, strain. Sweat more ham in oil, add some broth and reduce by half three or four times until you get the right flavor. I thickened it with a little xanthan gum. I'm not sure if this is how they do it at the restaurant, but the taste is pretty similar.

 

[Piobaire]

Room service. Conference until Thursday.

 

[gomestar]

not enough salad dressing?






(sarcasm can be hard to convey over the internetz)


and those cork screws are awful. no sarcasm.

 

[Piobaire]

I've been weaning myself off it.

 

[mgm9128]

Chicken with chanterelles, farro and corn

Leg fricassée with vin jaune

 

[erictheobscure]

Sushi at a casual but popular place down the street in Shibuya. Wasn't mind-blowing or anything, but pretty excellent for the price. Obscenely large piece of eel, shrimp (with head), tamago, crab leg, salmon roe, toro, etc. Also had something I couldn't even recognize--some sort of small white orbs mysteriously bound together into a strip. Pretty damn good.

Also pretty damn good: macarons from the convenience store next to my hotel (who knew?).

 

[impolyt_one]



Sushi at a casual but popular place down the street in Shibuya. Wasn't mind-blowing or anything, but pretty excellent for the price. Obscenely large piece of eel, shrimp (with head), tamago, crab leg, salmon roe, toro, etc. Also had something I couldn't even recognize--some sort of small white orbs mysteriously bound together into a strip. Pretty damn good.
Also pretty damn good: macarons from the convenience store next to my hotel (who knew?).

i think I know the place you're talking about, can't remember the name though.

 

[erictheobscure]

Midori Sushi. Had to line up outside a mall sushi joint for twenty minutes, but I enjoyed it. And I realized there's that whole area of Shibuya that's more manageable.

 

[impolyt_one]

Yeah Shibuya is not so bad, just gotta go to the other side of the station. Not tons there but when I go to see my accountant I usually eat Chinese food at Chen Kenichi's restaurant, it's on the 2nd floor of the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel there on the other side of Shibuya station. Lunch is like $30 a head and it's not so bad. There's better hotel Chinese but not in Shibuya.

 

[Alter]

If you are doing take out and want a step up from convenience stores, find a major department store and head to the basement level (usually B1). There will be many food vendors. Not sure what the good dept store in Shibuya is though. Impolyt?

 

[impolyt_one]

There's the Tokyu food messe right inside the station. They got some interesting booze and takeaway things here and there, he could get some good sashimi or a bento of some sort til they close. Ebisu is so close of a walk to Shibuya that he should be walking down Meiji-dori into Ebisu or the edges of Roppongi, like a 10-15 min walk and there's more grown up food options up there. Cask is a good whisky bar and would be a 15 minute walk from Shibuya on foot.

 

[globetrotter]

I made stuffed zucini blossoms for dinner - stuffed with old guada and black forrest ham

 

[erictheobscure]



There's the Tokyu food messe right inside the station. They got some interesting booze and takeaway things here and there, he could get some good sashimi or a bento of some sort til they close. Ebisu is so close of a walk to Shibuya that he should be walking down Meiji-dori into Ebisu or the edges of Roppongi, like a 10-15 min walk and there's more grown up food options up there. Cask is a good whisky bar and would be a 15 minute walk from Shibuya on foot.

I'm staying on Meiji Dori, and I'm planning on eventually walking up the street a bit to check this place out: http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g508401/lang/en/

Also want to check out Esaki, but I'm guessing it's the kind of place you need to reserve months ahead of time.

 

[impolyt_one]

lol. the name of that place is so crazy I'm not sure if I can take it seriously. If you need restaurant reservations, just ask your hotel front desk people. Doesn't really need to be a concierge, they are all friendly and used to travelers.

Eat good lunches and then you won't need to worry about eating fancy dinners, just spend that money on the boozin. If you are dazed and confused right now, start with the big hotel restaurants as the usual suspects since their lunch menus are all </>3000Y for a good lunch and most hotel restaurants are starred and rated - and they're less busy and don't require reservations, but only go til 2:30pm (work lunch hour is usually 12-1 so avoid that if possible and tables will clear by 1 if in a business district where people have to go back to work on time). For dinner just look for the cheap things to eat, and be with the people and booze later. If you get bearings and walk to the closer places you can get by on 6000Y a day while eating/drinking out for everything.

 

[Alter]



I'm staying on Meiji Dori, and I'm planning on eventually walking up the street a bit to check this place out: http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g508401/lang/en/
Also want to check out Esaki, but I'm guessing it's the kind of place you need to reserve months ahead of time.

That seems to be a sister restaurant to one of my favorite places in Kyoto. It is modern keiseki and pretty good.

I recommend checking the restaurant guide at http://bento.com/tf-rest.html . There are listings by neighborhood. How long you in town? Will you visit to western Japan? If you need any tips on Osaka, Kyoto or Kobe feel free to drop me a line.

And, isn't that Blacows burger place in Shibuya?