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It’s pretty much expected that if a ramen shop opens in the San Francisco Bay Area, especially one from Japan, you can predict a long line and wait. Add to that the expectation from the world’s first Michelin-star ramen restaurant and you’ve gone ramen mania all over again.
That’s what can describe what’s been happening […]
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Earlier this year when I visited Japan, I got to take a cooking class and learned some easy recipes as part of the kaiseki (or multi-course) meal we created.
I finally got around to using some of the skills I learned and ingredients I bought in Japan when I made two sides dishes — an […]
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There’s no doubt that the relatively new Kaiyo restaurant in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood is an Instagram darling.
I’ve been noticing people post photos of the restaurant’s beautifully plated food, even from weekend brunch. So I decided to check it out one weekend when I met my friend Craig for brunch.
It’s been awhile […]
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PORTLAND, Ore.
My recent Portland weekend was a success because I was able to check off two always-wanted-to-try restaurants off my list. The first was the popular Han Oak, and a couple of nights later it was the Japanese tasting menu at Nodoguro.
One of the reasons it took awhile to get to […]
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VANCOUVER, B.C.
Because of the Asian influences and close proximity to the water, one would think Vancouver has some of the best sushi in North America. But when I once mentioned that to a Japanese chef who moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from Vancouver, he made a look like that wasn’t always […]
I’m not always the tasting menu or hot-new-spot blogger. Sometimes I write about food anywhere I can get it, even when it’s surprisingly at a shopping mall food court.
Let me introduce you to the Japanese chicken burrito ($10) at Kichi Grill in the food court of Westfield San Francisco Centre on Market Street. I […]
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There’s no dearth of sushi restaurants in San Francisco, and lately there’s been a number of high-end spots focused on offering omakase, or a chef’s choice on the menu.
One of those places is Ju-Ni, a tiny neighborhood restaurant in the Divisadero corridor that only seats 12. When it first opened a year ago, it […]
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The story: The one-month-old Shinmai brings another ramen shop to Oakland, and surrounds its noodle offerings with high-end izakaya small bites in a hip, splashy big space on the outer edge of the Uptown neighborhood. It’s the brainchild of Yingji Huang, who also owns Montclair’s Kakui sushi restaurant.
Why I went: Always on the hunt […]
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HONOLULU
The common refrain my friends and family heard while I was visiting is “Hawaii hasn’t really changed that much.”
Things move slowly here, and that also means things don’t change much, which could be a good thing because the islands are exactly how I remembered. But it also means there aren’t as many […]
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UPDATE (05/22/2017): Just heard that Okane is temporarily suspending its brunch program for awhile as they focus on launching its new sister restaurant Dumpling Time. So for now you just have to taste the brunch offerings in my pictures until the restaurant resumes brunch.
Weekend brunch is pretty big in San Francisco, but after awhile […]
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UPDATE: Nomica announced that it will close at end of 2018 and reopen as an izakaya after its opening chef left for L.A.
Japanese food in America typically takes two extreme routes, either the traditional authentic approach or the crazy fun concepts that serve up things like dragon rolls.
But at the new Nomica by […]
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High-end omakase menus continue to trend in the San Francisco Bay Area, and this past weekend I checked out the latest entry from noted Chef Masa Sasaki (Maruya) and his self-named Sasaki on the edge of the city’s Mission neighborhood.
The unassuming corner spot (across the street of the popular Flour + Water) telegraphs the […]
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The story: Nojo opened a few years ago in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood, building on the izakaya craze for Japanese grilled eats. But the owners sold the restaurant last year to a Japanese conglomerate called AP Company, and it reopened earlier this year as a ramen restaurant with small bites.
Why I went: The […]
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The story: Restaurateur Jonathan Moon (Blackwater Station) closed his Temescal izakaya Kushido to re-imagine the space as an Asian fusion concept, but scrapped those plans and went back to the izakaya format with his newly opened Hina Yakitori, which focuses on grilled chicken parts.
Why I went: I was working on a piece […]
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