Hi. This is the latest incarnation of my site, which I hope will prove better than its ancestors. I tend to act before thinking, and this explains the endless changes to my site, which continues nonetheless to be amatorial. Anyway, these are the rules.

First choose one of the locations. The corresponding restaurants will appear. This much is self-explanatory.

A red asterisk ( * ) indicates a negative review, which seem to be the most popular among readers of my site.

A red circle (o) indicates a restaurant I haven't visited yet but that for any of a number of reasons I consider interesting. Sometimes I give its address, sometimes the link takes to a page dedicated to that restaurant on the Tokyo Food Page, Tokyo Q, The Tokyo Classifieds site, or another place, as indicated.

The reviews
In general, I do not give many details about the menu, because I myself consider the name, the phone number, the cost (almost certainly below 5000 ¥ with drinks, unless otherwise specified), and the map where available the most valuable part of my tip. I add just something about the food, its quality and the atmosphere.

Marking System
The usual one: one star, bottom, five stars, top. I add the symbol ?!? as in comic books where the curiosity element was significant in my evaluation.
In other words:


* Below consideration.

** Decent but, with so many good restaurants, why go there?

*** Not bad.

**** Definitely good.

***** The cream of the crop.

?!? Good curiosity value

A red plus ( + ) indicates a dead soldier, a restaurant gone out of business. I have decided that at least the best ones deserve posthumous fame.

Since mine is a non-commercial site, instead of those cute and ubiquitous Amazon.com icons and assorted advertising commonly gracing the pages of other sites, I chose to have icons of volunteer organizations of different kinds. If you have a URL to recommend, please do. I will probably post it somewhere in here.

If you find something interesting in these pages, feel free to use it as you please. Just say where you found it.

As usual, I invite all of you to inform me of bugs or problems. And don't worry, I know you won't , but I won't hate you for that.

The Recipe Source is the new incarnation of what used to be SOAR (Searchable Online Archive of Recipes). Check it out: it's even better than it used to be.