Foodies Journey In Tokyo

29/01/2019

I have not held an event for a long time,
How are you?

While I was not holding an event I went on a wonderful trip with My Husband.
I went on a journey to visit a coffee plantation in Java Island, Indonesia.

The village is a small small village where foreigners never visit.

First of all we gather information from local people using Couch surf,
I translated the translation function from English to Indonesian using software and examined the village where the coffee plantation is located.

I learned various things from coffee farmers.

Unfortunately I do not speak Indonesian language so it is a conversation using a translation application.
Technology is really wonderful.

Here is Albuｍ
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Next Mettup will visit a wonderful chocolate shop. Do you know that 70% of cocoa is controlled by Mafia?

Let's have such an interesting story while drinking chocolate.

Those who wish to exchange internationally!

I am looking forward to seeing you.

Kaoru

[Meetup Details]

Please check my Meetup Group

https://www.meetup.com/Foodies-Journey-In-Tokyo/

"Green Bean to Bar" is a Japanese owned chocolate shop. They won the 2018
award for best "foreign (non-French) dark chocolate bar" in the Paris Salon
Du Chocolat, which is said by many to be the pinnacle of the chocolate
world. They have won many other international awards as well -- they're
really good.

Here's their site:
https://greenchocolate.jp/archives/award/

Our meetup will be a little different this time -- we'll just meet casually
at this chocolate bar.

Besides the normal international exchange, let's have fun eating some of
the world's best chocolate!

There is no fee for this meetup, just buy your own chocolate. Drinks are
around 500 yen, cake is around 800 yen. Lots of bon-bons starting around
375 yen (per bite). Last time we were there, they had samples of the
chocolate bars if you are interested in buying one (the bars cost
~1600-2300 yen).

We hope to sit together, so please don't be late!

Grean Bean to Bar
https://greenchocolate.jp/

Explore this photo album by Foodies Journey in Tokyo on Flickr!

18/07/2018

[What about me]

I used to be a writer, but now I generally take it easy.

I love traditional Japanese culture and food, so I have lived in the Kagurazaka neighborhood for over 10 years. I have traveled all over the world and eaten all sorts of delicious local foods, and I love to interact with people from various countries.

In my travels, I have had really delicious meals in places I could only have visited with local people, and many local people have helped me to eat really good local food.

I would like to help make your trip a wonderful one by showing you amazing Japanese food in Tokyo

Check my blog
http://foodies-journey.tokyo/

Please join my meerup
https://www.meetup.com/ja-JP/Foodies-Journey-In-Tokyo/

18/07/2018

A quality Izakaya uses a Old Japanese geisha house.

Sakanamacchi gogou is wonderful Robata izakaya using a Japanese old-fashioned geisha house
(if you do not know robata please check the web pege ROBATA WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robatayaki)

It is a good quality izakaya and is always full of customers.
hard to find the location of the store in a very hidden place.

Please check my blog !
http://foodies-journey.tokyo/2018/06/25/a-quality-izakaya-uses-a-old-japanese-geisha-house/

17/07/2018

Shabuya is one of my favorite shabu shabu Izakaya,
They use old geisha house , so The old and beautiful atmosphere reminds me of my grandmother’s house,

Please check my blog！

http://foodies-journey.tokyo/2018/07/03/shabuya-using-old-old-geisha-house/

21/05/2018

Michelin 1 Star Chef’s Japanese Cuisine＠Kagurazaka

Kurosu is a restaurant that offers great Japanese cuisin.

The wonderful thing is that you can have a course meal if you book at lunch.

Owner chef Mr. Kurosu was the Japanese culinary chef of Ritz-Carlton Tokyo’s Japanese cuisine “Hinokakazaka”.
The restaurant which Mr. Kurosu supervised leads one star in the Michelin Guide Tokyo for three consecutive years.

Then opened “KUROSU” in Kagurazaka

Kuros is a very cozy restaurant, which has been renovated from an old Japanese private house.

The other day I had a course meal of 8000 yen for lunch.

I have sashimi on the way but I forgot to take a picture.

Dessert was a very delicious mango and strawberries.

You can see that it cooks carefully with wonderful technique. It was very delicious.

Lunch from 1000JPY
Lunch Course meal　8000JPY

Dinner Course meal from 15000JPY

KUROSU　くろす
Adress:4-11 Tsukudocho Shinjuku Tokyo
Adress in Japanese:東京都 新宿区 津久戸町 4-11
http://www.kagurazaka-x.com/

09/05/2018

Sushi Fukuzuka is a new sushi restaurant just opened this March.

Fukuzuka sushi can be said to be gastronomy sushi.

The signboard is small and the entrance is inconspicuous and it is a hiding place sushi shop.

Interior decoration is very beautiful and it seems like Zen's thought has appeared.

Pottery dishes are also beautiful beyond interior decoration.

I had lunch chirashi sushi.
Using the slightly warm rice, it takes sweet sauce.

It is different from a typical chirashi sushi.

Although it is a small store with only counters,
Fukuzuka will soon become a popular shop and you can not make a reservation.

Lunch from 1800JPY

Sushi course at night is 18000 JPY
25000 JPY by pairing with sake

It is wonderful that there is a sommelier of sake.

They use only Japanese,
Ordering in English may be possible

Adress: 3-5 2F, Tsukudocho Shinjuku Tokyo
adress in japanese: 東京都 新宿区 津久戸町 3-5 2F

http://sushi-fukuzuka.com/

07/05/2018

Founded 100 years of Japanese sweets shop

Kinozen is famous for Japanese sweets shop.

Sweets using red beans and dumplings are very delicious.
Anmitsu and Matcha Bavaro are also eating with dark molasses very delicious.

The weekends are very crowded and are always lining up.

Employees can not speak English, but there is an English menu.

KINOZEN
Adress: 1-12 Kagurazaka Shinjuku Tokyo

Adress in Japanese :東京都 新宿区 神楽坂 1-12 紀の善ビル

23/04/2018

yamaai sushi is my favorite sushi restaurant that I use for only lunch.

There are reasonable price with delicious sushi and chirashi sushi.
Especially my favorite is chirashi sushi.

it is a shop where you can enjoy chirashi sushi different from others.
It is a sweet chirashi sushi with beautiful color. It is full of local customers all the time.

Chirashi sushi uses good quality fish with beautiful colors,
It is sweet and delicious compared to other chirashi sushi.

Yuzu is used for sushi and you can taste the flavor well.

When you want to eat different sweet chirashi sushi, yamaoi is recommended.

Chirashi susi 1800JPY
Sushi combo 2000JPY

Unfortunately　they only speak Japanese.

Sushi YAMAAI
adeess : 4-3 Kagurazaka Shinjuku Tokyo
adress in Japanese 東京都 新宿区 神楽坂 4-3 近江屋ビル３階
Open on sundays
closed on Monday.

20/04/2018

MEETUP was held on last Wednesday
In a the izakaya using Japanese traditional old folk house,

10 course meal and 8 kinds of Japanese sake with all you can drink total 5400 JPY.

Food is also very delicious, foreign guests who participated were pleased that thay said " fish level was high"

Please join my meetup
https://www.meetup.com/ja-JP/Foodies-Journey-In-Tokyo/

11/04/2018

Michelin 3-star Japanese cuisine

KOHAKU is a famous Japanese restaurant that has got Michelin 3 stars almost every year.

Mr. Koizumi is the youngest three-star Michelin chef in Japan.

They also use Western ingredients such as truffles in Japanese cuisine, it offers creative cuisine,

Guests can enjoy both the creative cuisine and traditional Japanese cuisine.

I visited KOHAKU at my birthday present from my husband.

Needless to say the quality of food and meals,
At the same time interior decoration, the hospitality of the staff is also wonderful.

And I was impressed by the beauty of pottery dishes.
They also use antique plates of very famous artists.

They also use antique dishes such as 100 years ago.

The course will come up.
Meals will be served according to the time we eat.
It was the best timing.

All meals are only for the course　meals.
Course is 25000 JPY.

It was a memorable birthday in my life and the best birthday dinner.

If you want to eat the best Japanese cuisine, kohaku is recommended.

KOHAKU is reservation only.
As the reservation is always full,
I recommend make a reservation early.

If you can sit down at the counter ,
you will enjoy more!

Reservations at this restaurant can only be made in Japanese, but they have an English menu.

KOHAKU
3-4 Kagurazaka Shinjuku Tokyo
Phone:03-5225-0807 (+81-3-5225-0807)

in japanese
虎白
東京都 新宿区 神楽坂 3-4

https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1309/A130905/13049130/

09/04/2018

Kyorakutei offers fresh high-quality homemade soba

Kyoukakutei is a delicious soba restaurant that get Michelin 1 star,

This restaurant or use fresh vegetables,
fish and had entered the alive water tank, has been put out from the water tank before cooking.

Soba is very delicious with delicate seasoning.

The restaurant is always crowded.
As lunch always lined up, I recommend going to early time.

It is very reasonable from 1000JPY with simple soba,
soba and tempura from 2000 yen .
The appetizer is also very reasonable.

They use only Japanese, but do not worry because there is an English menu.
There are many travelers lined up.

KYORAKUTEI　offer fresh homemade soba every day

KYOURAKUTEI
3-6 Kagurazaka Shinjuku Tokyo
TEL: 03-3269-3233 (+81-3-3269-3233)

in japanesse
石臼挽き手打蕎楽亭
東京都 新宿区 神楽坂 3-6 神楽坂館　１Ｆ

check my website
http://foodies-journey.tokyo/

04/04/2018

Cheap IZAKAYA with good beef sashimi



BASU TEI is one of my favorite Izakaya,

There is cheap and fresh sashimi of beef’s internal organs,
one dish only 380JPY

one kushiyaki（skewer ）is 90 yen,
kushiyaki is not super special but it is okay quality for eat,

my favorite is
beef bowl ( this is wagyu ) and simmered,
Boiled beef stew is also very delicious.

The shop is very crowded because it is an office worker on the way home from work every day.

Beer and sake are also very cheap

beef sashimi is a unique dish in Japan, so please do try it.

Unfortunately they can only speak Japanese

you can see they are picture
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BASUTEI
Shinjyuku-ku, ichigayasauchichou1 yamamoto bill 1F

in japanese
〒162-0846 東京都新宿区市谷左内町1 山本ビル 1F