Mother Nature reads my weblog, apparently. She cleared the skies and brought us the warmest day of the year so far. (If summer were always like today--28 degrees and only slightly humid--I'd be a happy girl.)
This afternoon, we lunched in Hibiya Park under a wisteria arbor near one of the ponds and watched salarymen and pensioners interacting with the turtles. I brought muffaletta (check for the recipe on Thursday) and plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit, and a few cookies that a crow snatched from our picnic as we stood to look out over the pond. Sneaky crow.
This evening, we met Jim & Yuka at Canal Cafe in Iidabashi. It's a lovely spot on the outer moat of the Imperial Palace with a view across to the Chuo and Sobu line trains. There's a rather expensive restaurant and a more reasonably priced dock-side bar. We quaffed some wine and then walked up Kagurazaka to Sofra, a Turkish restaurant. The food is good, but overpriced and the service is awful. Thankfully, we missed the belly dancing. Sadly, there aren't a lot of options for Turkish food in Tokyo, so we'll probably go back.
The strangest coincidence happened just now. I was reading your post about your Turkish restaurant issues and the very next post in my RSS reader was Sachiko's post about a different Turkish place in Takadanobaba. How strange is that!?!?
http://kesavinchi.typepad.com/kesavinchi_stripped/2004/05/mizukis_bday.html
I read Brownies by Seth, Kirsty had Notting Hill on, I went to see where she was up to - dinner party, saddest story wins the brownie. Starting to wonder whether tinker lives in Synchroni City.