My local Aeon near Shinagawa Seaside station has a special “liquor store” section with a pretty good selection on beers at not bad prices. They have a very good selection of American real ales and a pretty good selection of Belgian ones, plus these from the UK: Traquair House Ale and Jabobite Ale (800 yen for 330 ml, [...]
Archive for December, 2011
18 Dec
Tesco food in Tsurukameland supermarkets
Until they manage to flog them to someone, as well as their own brand stores that I wrote about here Tesco also own a chain of discount supermarkets called Tsurukamerando. As they are full sized supermarkets, they actually often have more Tesco stuff in them than Tesco stores do. Store guides on the same page [...]
15 Dec
British food and drink in 82 Ale House pubs
82 Ale House is a chain owned by the same people as Hub, but has a much more laid back atmosphere and, nicest of all, is quite often at street level and sometimes even has chairs outside. Their own ale is half decent (which makes up for Bass and Guinness being the other main beers) and [...]
14 Dec
British food and beer in Nissin supermarket, Azabu Juban
Now that National Azabu in Hiroo is being knocked down there seems to be little competition for the title of best international supermarket in Tokyo – it is quite clearly Nissin in Azabu-Juban, for its huge range and okay prices. It’s also the best place for British food and beer (although Yamaya runs it close [...]
11 Dec
British food in Queens Isetan
This shop seems to vary a lot by location. This one was the one basically in Shinagawa Station near the East Exit. Lyles golden syrup 493 yen Hobgoblin dark English ale 380 yen Harrods tea, coffee, jam, apple sauce, chutney, relish, pickle and brown sauce Continental roast meat gravy Mrs Bridges horseradish, tatare sauce, tea [...]
10 Dec
British food from the Foreign Buyers’ Club
Most of this stuff is available in import shops for slightly less if you shop around, but the fact that you can do all this on their website is obviously a selling point, and I’ve put things I haven’t seen elsewhere near the top of the list below. Vili’s Gourmet Meat Pie – Beef/ Chicken/ [...]
8 Dec
British food in Kinokuniya
That’s the international supermarket rather than the bookshop! You can get most of this elsewhere and the prices are nothing special, but I was just in the smaller Omo branch in Akasaka and there will might be more in the big branches like Omotesando. Food of possible particular interest to Brits Kraft Macaroni cheese Smoothies [...]
5 Dec
British food in Meidi-ya
Generally I wouldn’t recommend Meidi-ya, as it’s expensive and really caters for the Japanese taste in Western products. There are a few things that are difficult to get elsewhere though (near the top of this list): small Walkers rich fruit pudding 1260 yen Colman’s mustard 450 yen Pataks curry paste Robertsons mincemeat 699 yen Vegemite 420 yen [...]
5 Dec
British food in Kaldi Coffee Farm shops in Tokyo
Most of the tea they sell is horrible (including the apparently British Brodies), but Twinings is reasonably priced and so are most of the other things they sell. Their special offers can be very cheap indeed. There are 57 stores in Tokyo, most of them close to stations and quite easy to find. Sweet stuff [...]
4 Dec
British Xmas food in Tokyo
So far I’ve only found: – Foreign Buyers’ Club turkey roast page – Xmas pudding (small one for over 1000 yen) from Walkers (the shortbread company) in Meidi-ya in the basement of Maru-Biru (the Marunouchi Building) opposite Tokyo station, Seijo Ishii, Nissin and to be delivered from Foreign Buyer’s Club. Alternatively, there was a one person [...]
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