Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: A16 in Tokyo Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 02:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <1d863579-83ec-43d5-a1cb-78824267d8f5@c34g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <64041c5b-9f46-4ec6-b3d6-f7739e740f24@t9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.eyrie.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1267927727 18847 166.84.7.159 (7 Mar 2010 02:08:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/1.9.3-20080506 ("Dalintober") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.30-xen3-U (i686)) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:168891 chuckers wrote: > On Mar 6, 3:02?pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > > chuckers wrote: > > Oh, and here's a line from the review; "The wine list is far longer than the > > food menu, and is split pretty evenly between southern Italy and California. > > > > In fact, without advertising itself as such, A16 is the kind of all-day > > wine bar that we have craved so long in Tokyo. It has bottles in all > > price ranges and a solid base of quality cuisine to match them with -- > > and best of all, with a refreshing absence of highfalutin pretensions." > This one might fit the bill for that as well: > http://www.rigoletto.jp/main.html > The one in the Shin Maru Building is a wine bar an about 2 blocks up > the street from A16. They have > a JPY 1000 pasta lunch (choice of pastas or pizza, green salad, coffee > or tea) with similar > pizza styles and apparently a rather large selection of wines (you > have to walk through their > "cellar" to get to you seat.) Not much keen on wine though so can't > really talk much about > their selection. Prices looked reasonable (for restaurant wine). Mike