Restaurants
10 entries
Please join my friends Chef Hiroki Abe and owners Reika and Jesse Alexander of EN Japanese Brasserie for a big fundraiser for Japan earthquake and tsunami relief. It takes place this Wednesday, March 23rd at 6pm at their restaurant in downtown Manhattan.
I knew I was in for a treat when my pals at Manhattan's EN Japanese Brasserie invited me to sample cocktails up whipped up by their new mixologist, Gen Yamamoto.
At least in my opinion... New York is fortunate to have a sizable Japanese expat community -- and real deal restaurants to serve them. I'm talking about Japanese cuisine beyond sushi, which is just a tiny part of the food culture there, despite its popularity here. Many friends ask me to recommend Japanese joints in the big city, so here I go: Check out the half-dozen restaurants below (listed alphabetically) to discover a world of Japanese cooking from sophisticated cuisine to tapas-like pub food to home style chow. And what about your favorite places? Any Japanese restaurants you want to add? (And not just in New York) Please share your thoughts in the comments!
Seiji Yamamoto is a classically trained Japanese chef who prepares astonishing Japanese cooking that is nothing like the Japanese cuisine I've encountered. I...
After my recent pickle-making experiment (see earlier below) I visited my friends Reika and Jesse at En Japanese Brasserie, one of my favorite Japanese...
Tsukushi, 300 East 41st Street, New York; (212) 599-8888. As a Japanese friend explained to me, "After a night of drink, drink, drink in Japan you need...
Restaurant Dewaya, Nishikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture (I'm sorry I can't read the address on their Japanese card, but their website is www.dewaya.com. A...
Aburiya Kinnosuke, 213 E.45th St. between 2nd and 3rd, 212-867-5454 When a Japanese television reporter, a friend of a friend, called to say she moved to New...
"Follow the boots," Lloyd advised me. We had just emerged from Tokyo's Tsukiji, the world's largest wholesale fish market. It was seven in the morning. We...
Sushi of Gari, 370 Columbus Ave, 212-362-4816 I first met Chef Akaboshi at Riki, the ultra-tasty, ultra-Japanese izakaya -- or eating pub -- in midtown. As I...