Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Founded in 1953, it is now one of the famous Ginza spots.
The bar "TARU" is called
Building in the early Showa period (how a manual elevator!) In addition, it is a shop with an atmosphere that can be said to be a Showa heritage with the interior as it was in the past.

There is no charge or service fee and there are counter seats, so there are many female customers who enjoy drinking casually, but personally, I think of it as a "shops to be taken by a longing boss" It was this "TARU".

However, such "TARU" has been closed on February 28, 2013!
I'm really sorry.

　
However, I still have some time before the store closes, so I'd like to invite my former colleagues and go there after a long absence.

If you've never been there, it's worth seeing the building and interior alone, so please come and visit us.

Recently, it is open not only at night, but also as lunch until 14:00 and cafe time until 16:30.

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Ginza 6-11-10 (Mihara Street)

On the east side of Ginza, the area around Kabukiza is different from Chuo-dori and Nishi-Ginza / Shimbashi, where there are private houses and wooden houses, and there is a place where the old downtown atmosphere remains. It is an interesting area where it is sometimes written as "Ura Ginza".

Originally, there were a number of delicious shops known to those who knew it, but since the famous Ochiai chef's shop "La Betla da Ochiai" was opened, Italian, casual French, creative cuisine, wine bars and various other shops open one after another.
It is also a small gourmet area.

Most of the shops have a small and friendly atmosphere, but there are quite a lot of authentic and reputed shops, some of which wait a few months for night reservations.
The price will also be like that, so I can't go so often, but when it comes to "lunch", it's a very familiar price!

At Ura Ginza in such a fierce lunch battlefield, the first thing I would like to recommend is the Italian restaurant "Baffo".
It is the basement of a building that entered the alley next to Hotel Daiei in Ginza 3-chome.

"Baffo" means "beard" in Italian.

As the name implies, the chef who greeted me with a smile has a wonderful mustard.

The table guided us had a well-cold water bottle, and immediately brought homemade bread and appetizer potato salad.

The fragrant and outer crisp bread is warm, and the potato salad is mashed with the whole skin to bring out the umami of the potatoes, and the crisp pungency of the onions is an exquisite accent.

It's already delicious enough, so I'm excited while waiting for the next one.

I had two friends on this day, so I asked Pizza Margerita for a Bologna-style sausage penne cream sauce and shared it.
The pizza baked in a kettle provided at the shop is thin type with crispy outside.
I can't say anything about the taste and aroma of cheese, and because it's simple, I can understand the goodness of the shop.
The penne is chewy, and the cream sauce and sausage match perfectly.
The flavor of Italian parsley tightened the whole.

When I was talking about the sauce left on the plate saying "Mottainai!", The chef added bread quickly!
　

And the last coffee is not a demitas cup, but a normal size and enough quantity.

So far, the fee is 1050 yen!

Then, I would like to order desserts, so I ordered lunch dessert for plus 350 yen.

What came out was a cheesecake, an apple with a moderately textured apple sweet cream, and a mascarpone cheese and chocolate cake with alcohol, and three servings on one plate. It is a very nice dish where you can taste products with different characteristics.

There are about 4 types of lunch, such as the classic pizza Marguelita and pizza salami, as well as pasta and fritts using seasonal ingredients purchased by chefs at Tsukiji Market.
All are 1050 yen with appetizers, homemade bread and coffee.
It's 350 yen plus dessert.

It is a shop where you can return home with a feeling of great gain.

By the way, the petit tomatoes that were dried on the barrel at the entrance are put in homemade foccia.
The bread and pizza were so delicious, so I thought it would be good, but since this seems to be not served for lunch, I wonder if I have to come at night next time~

Baffo (Bappo)
3-12-5, Ginza B1F
Tel 03 (5565) 6139 Regular Holidays/Monday

It's at the height of the middle season.
Some people have finished everything and are relieved, and some are still wondering what to do.

In my home, I gave Tsukudani of Tsukuda Island a long time ago, and everyone was very pleased, so since then, Onakamoto and New Year's gifts have always been decided to be Tsukudani on Tsukuda Island.

Some long-established Tsukudani shops are all delicious, but what I always care for is "Tenan".
There is also a fine box, but there is also a simple package that costs 1000 yen, so relatives who do not care much are here.
In addition, seaweed tsukudani with sachets is as easy as 200 yen, so it is useful to use it instead of a little greeting, regardless of whether you are mid-year or year-end gift.

Tsukudani, as the name implies, is the birthplace of Tsukuda Island.
At the beginning of the Edo period, fishermen who moved from Tsukuda-mura, Nishinari-gun, Settsu-kuni (now Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka-shi) built Tsukuda-jima, and they boiled small fish as "preserved food". The beginning of Tsukudani.
At first, soy sauce was not widespread yet, so it was boiled with salt, but what kind of taste was it?
After that, soy sauce came in, and it seems that it became the same seasoning as it is now.
The gift is, of course, delicious, but it is a product with such a history, so you will be more pleased.

Pandas are loved not only by Japan but also by everyone, from children to adults all over the world.

You can't see the real thing unless you go to a zoo, but if it's related to pandas, you can see it all over the street corner.

Under such circumstances, the first thing to be surprised is "Panda stuffed" displayed at a seafood shop at Tsukiji Outer Market!

I doubted my eyes for a moment, but when I visited the shop, he said, "It's a long time ago than the Washington Convention."

If you look closely, it looks quite old.
For the time being, the price was right, so is it not just a "signboard panda" but a proper sale?

And this is also a surprise, panda leather shoes!

Discovered that it was displayed in the window of a shoe shop in Ginza facing Showa-dori!
It is custom-made, but it seems that there are both men and women.
It was written on the POP, "Try it on and take a commemorative photo," but as expected, it was distracted and refrained.
If you think about it, there are also panda slippers, so you may have leather shoes.
But what kind of clothes should I wear when I wear these shoes?

After all, I thought about whether it should be unified with white and black panda colors, or what the leopard pattern is like.