Eating in Ginza 1: Two Cups of Failure

Two dinners at two restaurants in Ginza - the first was two cups of failure, the second was a boobylicious recovery.

First, the two cups of failure.

Ginza has the highest land prices, in a city with world class high land prices. The end result is a lot of small buildings with the footprint the size of a McMansion media room that goes up at least half a dozen crazy narrow levels. Most restaurants are also vertical - small diner type arrangement on the entry level, with maybe 3-4 floors of tables accessible via a narrow flight of stairs.

I'm going to admit this was part of the appeal for this restaurant - novelty factor for something that is actually pretty typical in Tokyo. I kinda had a delusion of a sanitised version of Blade Runner, with a view. It had even started to rain a bit to add to the Blade Runner-ish vibe.

A lack of English menus is usually not a problem when they come with pictures and have the use of your hands to point. It can sometimes mean the food is a bit of a lucky dip. A little problematic for people with allergies however.

So we ordered two something-something-sandwiches and pointed at two cokes.

Totally forgot about the love affair Japan has for iced coffee - and how an iced coffee in a picture looks exactly like a coke.

Personally I'm not a fan of iced coffee or iced tea. I always see them as a cup of failure - it's a coffee/tea you've left too long and it's gone cold - you "failed" to drink it in time. Ash doesn't even like the smell of coffee, let alone want to drink it. So we'd just ordered two large cups of failure to wash down our mystery sandwiches.

And there was no room on any of the levels upstairs so we had to sit on the street. Though we were tempted to sneak down the alley and tip our cups out to hide our shame and pretend we drank them.

I actually thought the mystery sandwiches were ok, without actually knowing what they were.

Observations:

Pointing at pictures of drinks is risky.

Kaiju Collected:

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