There is a Basque restaurant with a Michelin star diagonally across from our office which I wrote about some time ago. I recently found out that the chef who worked there left and opened up another Basque restaurant nearby or more precisely I was passing by a Basque restaurant and thought, in such close proximity, even in Tokyo, that’s interesting, and looked it up. This is it.
Very nice food. I wonder how the other restaurant is doing.
I have an elementary school friend who has recently been transferred to an office in Ueno and since her work is now more closely related to my work, we decided to meet up for the first time in a very long time for a night out in her work neighborhood which is actually closer to where I live than between my work place and home.
My friend took me to a very casual and friendly Italian restaurant with an interesting way of presentation.
One would wonder why there are four cans of tomatoes placed in the middle of the table.
Aha!
We had other food not shown and everything was good and we paid so little. I didn’t know but it turns out that this is a chain and they are in quite a few locations across Tokyo. Something to remember.
I shouldn’t generalize but it’s my guess that most people have positive memories of high school graduation even if it was because it meant no more school and good riddance.
It’s been a long time since my graduation from high school but I was asked to attend this year’s ceremony at my alma mater and give a congratulatory speech. I was like, why me? I’m nobody, it’s not like I relate to kids, and I haven’t been back for ages. But somehow they convinced me to return to school and speak and surprisingly I actually enjoyed the opportunity so I’m glad I accepted. Sunday, May 26 turned out to be a beautiful day.
The program looks exactly the same as when I graduated.
At home I decided to give the graduating class my own celebratory toast!
That is the name of the burger joint I stopped by in Harajuku after getting my hair done last month but as tempting as it was, I refrained and restrained myself from trying one of its great-looking burgers and settled for a seemingly healthier Caesar salad and a few glasses of wine.
Now wanting to go back for a burger and fries and this weekend, I’m going back to my hair salon…
Caution! Sound!!
I have made a couple of other posts about this magnificent salmon restaurant in Daitabashi called Shake Kojima before and here is another post about it.
And we also discovered another friendly izakaya near the station which was leaning towards serving more Korean food, less sophisticated than Kojima but nevertheless pretty good.
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