Wining and Dining in Tokyo
In Tokyo last week, exploring the Sony Building in Ginza, and we chuffingly stumbled across a copy of Wining and Dining in Tokyo.
Published by the people who put out J-Select, Wining and Dining in Tokyo: The No. 1 Guide to Tokyo’s Finest Eating and Entertainment Spots is a really useful book targeted at Tokyo’s expatriate population. Featuring 100 restaurants listed by location, this is an easy-to-use guide to the best and brightest of Tokyo cuisine. Wining and Dining in Tokyo includes a wide range of types of restaurants from Mediterranean and Egyptian, Mexican and Nepalese through to more standard Japanese fare such as sushi and shabu-shabu.
Wining and Dining in Tokyo is available from most major bookstores in Tokyo for 980 yen. They also have a search engine where you can search for restaurants in Tokyo by location, type and budget.
8 Comments, Comment or Ping
elliott
cheers ears. but truth of the matter is that the issue above is out-of-date. Issue 31 is already in leading bookstores nationwide. see here: http://www.upstairsforthinking.blogspot.com (scroll down till you see the green) for a peep at the new cover. the website is likely to be updated soon but it’s not really in my control… elipses…
lov and all that,
e
Aug 25th, 2007
psymeg
updiddlydated:) i thought the cover looked somewhat different from the one we found at the sony plaza. nice work!
Aug 25th, 2007
elliott
A final note: The restaurants featured are (mostly) mid- to high-end eateries that are targeting (predominantly) foreign/international visitors. Thus, it’s not likely to be much use to anyone travelling on a budget, or anyone looking for an “undiscovered” gem of a restaurant buried down some small alleyway in Nishi Azabu. But if wining and dining is what tickles your fancy, it’s bound to have something to whet your appetite…
Aug 25th, 2007
psymeg
to my mind the phrase expatriate doesn’t really include nova teachers or the like.
is it available overseas? i had a look on amazon but couldn’t see it – and i imagine most foreign / international visitors to japan would pick up a guide book before coming?
Aug 25th, 2007
BritintheBoonies
Hey Simon,
Wanted to thank you for the great link you gave me to Ursula Bethell’s writings – loving them!
Great blog btw, bookmarked!
Helen
aka Brit in the Boonies
Aug 25th, 2007
elliott
don’t think so, but there are copies on sale at Narita and Haneda airports. Think there’s enough scope for a one-off Tsukuba section?
Aug 26th, 2007
psymeg
Helen: You are welcome! Bethell is a very special New Zealand poet and I am glad you loved those poems. Maybe I should do a post about them:)
Elliot: There is a large foreign community here in Tsukuba, mainly comprised of researchers and students studying abroad. The restaurants aren’t quite at the same level as the ones you include – although there is a very interesting range here (we went to a nice Iranian restaurant last night).
I know that pages of your book have been photocopied and are part of the package given to visiting astronauts and related engineers visiting Japan to give them ideas of what to do on their time off and if they want to visit the capital!
Aug 27th, 2007
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