By Aya OtaThere is a restaurant that has a dignified appearance which makes you feel like stopping by in a corner of the busy East Village. When you step into the space as you are gravitated towards it, a noble and intense looking corridor runs before your eyes, and you feel as if you are entering a...

By Keiko FukudaIn the past few years, the city of Irvine in Orange County has been having a construction rush with condominiums and town-houses. There...

By Elli Sekine"Kemuri Japanese Baru”, a smoked dish specialty store opened in Silicon Valley. “Kemuri” means smoke in English.The restaurant specializes in charcoal grilled dishes cooked with Binchotan charcoals, and smoked plates that are smoked sashimi and chicken and umami brought out by adding f...

By Yuji MatsumotoJapanese sake is a drink that Americans still cannot get used to.Majority of Japanese sake sales are from restaurants, and unfortunat...

By Aya OtaLately, people are raving about the NoMad district of Manhattan. NoMad stands for North of Madison Square Park, and it covers the area of th...

By Kosuke KujiThis year making it the 5th time this competition has been held, as the title mentions, it’s “a contest to decide the best tasting sake in the world” and would you believe that there were entries from 416 breweries with 1483 sakes from head of breweries from Japan and different countri...

By Elli SekineIn the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art which re-opened this spring after a huge three-year long renovation, a unique restaurant début...

By Aya Ota “I’ve never had tempura like this!” – The impressed gourmet New Yorkers rave about “Tempura Matsui”. In New York where you can have all kinds of authentic foods from all over the world, Japanese food is getting more and more specialized. However, as curious as it sounds, there had not bee...

By Keiko FukudaDespite the compact space with only 8 seats for the counter and 6 table seats, this restaurant in Beverly Hills called “Tempura Endo” is attracting a lot of attention. A famous Hollywood actress has chosen the place for her birthday party, and Kenta Maeda, the Dodgers’ player, is beco...

By Elli Sekine “Ju-Ni”, which opened recently in the popular NOPA district where more and more trendy restaurants and cafés are coming in, is one of t...