I live in Aichi, and I’m planning on visiting Tokyo over the New Years holidays. I’ll have a few days when I’m not meeting friends, and as I can’t travel often due to my health, I’d like to make the most of Tokyo’s wider variety of restaurants while I can. Nagoya doesn’t have the variety of international cuisine you can find in Tokyo, and as I’ll be going to plenty of Izakaya with friends, I’m more interested in non-Japanese food.
I’ll be staying in Taito-ku, so any places nearby would be great, but anywhere in the special wards is fine. I like a wide variety of food, so any recommendations are fine. Especially for January 1st, as my friends normally need the day to recover. I found South Park, a decent South Indian restaurant in Asakusa last New Year’s day, so I suspect there are other places like that open throughout the holidays.
Also, does anyone know any good sites for finding restaurants that aren’t user generated? I find Gurunavi and Tabelog overwhelming, and also lacking in detail for individual restaurants. Is there anywhere with more detailed and curated content. I like bento.com despite it’s design language being stuck in the early 2000s. Is there anything like that but in Japanese and more extensive?