When I write these restaurant and café reviews I purposely omit the places I go to regularly. But because I rarely go to Shibuya anymore I can disclose what used to be one of my regular haunts.
Chamate is a little oasis in crowded Shibuya, tucked away under the 3rd floor eaves of Loft (one of the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘cafes’
April 25, 2009
Chamate
March 15, 2009
A Side of Frank Lloyd Wright with my Crepe
This past week, I stumbled upon a Frank Lloyd Wright building. Who knew that Mejiro, one of the minor stops on the Yamanote Line is one of the hotbeds of architecture in Tokyo. There are a lot of gems in this neighborhood, most notable is Kenzo Tange’s St. Mary’s Cathedral, which strangely is [...]
January 2, 2009
The Hakone Open-Air Museum
The Hakone Open Air Museum is a large park filled with an excellent collection of sculpture, as well as several indoor galleries. It’s my favorite museum in Japan because of its large collection of Henry Moore sculptures. And because there aren’t too many things in life better than appreciating art outdoors.
The museum is [...]
September 28, 2008
Sipping Coffee on LeCorbusier
Cassina IXC
There’s a furniture store on the first floor of the building where I work out. They have designer furniture from the greats like LeCorbusier and Mackintosh. It’s like a museum actually. The cool thing about this store is that it has a café inside. So you can sit on $11,000 [...]
August 6, 2008
Blown Back to Ashland: the Windiad no. 4
The Wind Bag
Aeolus is the wind god, or he controlled the winds anyway. In exchange for stories from Odysseus, Aeolus gave a bag of winds that would help Odysseus find his way back home. Odysseus told mostly stories from the Trojan War, with other tales of fishing trips and crazy relatives in between [...]
