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Review excerpt: Ginza Hachigo he has taken a radical step by ignoring — some might say breaking — one of the unwritten rules of ramen.

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Review excerpt: You won’t find many avant-garde accents on the menu here (for these, you need to book yourself into Marx’s fine-dining restaurant next door). At Bistro Marx the focus is firmly on the satisfying staples of French everyday cooking — but executed with ...

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I took one sip and was immediately comforted: Chabuton doesn't seem to be trying to imitate a meat-based broth at all, as I'd half expected, since this is a meat-centric restaurant. Instead, it has created an honest, decent vegetable soup as a base, almost ...

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If tasting is believing, then the place to do that is at the Nihonbashi Dashi Bar. This small self-service counter on the ground floor of the Coredo Muromachi building (right across the street from the main Mitsukoshi Department Store) offers two kinds of dashi ...

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The uptown shojin establishments may have the edge in terms of refinement, but Noguchi's food has all the honest virtues of the best home cooking -- unadulterated flavor and, better still, no artificial additives. He also rejects the use of refined sugar, which is ...

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Review excerpt: Fujimaru is part of an expanding Osaka-based group of wine shops and delis, which includes the only winery in that city — and it’s their own wines on draft here. The chain has made a bold choice of location in Tokyo: The ...

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At Kamachiku the excellent noodles are prepared fresh each day, rolled out and cut by hand in the age-old way, and brought to the table with absolutely no nonsense or pretension. That's the way they do it in Osaka, the udon heartland, where Kamachiku ...

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Muto is definitely not a slurp-n-dash ramen shop. Since it only serves its noodles as part of multi-course set meals, you better settle in and enjoy.

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Once a tradesman's store, this two-story timber-frame house has had new life breathed into it, reincarnated as an izakaya tavern. Unlike its neighbors, many of which offer boisterous carousing and entertainments of a rather more dubious nature, Tamayura is quiet, wholesome and entirely welcoming.

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At lunch, there are set meals; in the evening, a la carte options too. Everything is simple, light and wholesome, thanks to the rich savor of the bonito.