[Photos: Joe DiStefano] With the notable exception of Go Go Curry there is probably no Japanese restaurant in Manhattan more obsessed with New York Yankees left-fielder Hideki "Godzilla" Matsui than Go Sushi. Sports pages featuring Matsui are pasted above...
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Robataya! [Photographs: Tam Ngo] Robataya is the latest from the restaurant group that manages such Japanese gems as Sobaya. Its grilled menu offerings are similar to those of Aburiya Kinnosuke, but presented with greater fidelity to the rowdy spirit...
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[Photos: Hideki Kato] Jeffrey Chodorow's Tanuki Tavern recently replaced Ono in the Hotel Gansevoort. I was particularly jazzed to try it since the food at the "Japanese gastropub and sushi bar" is inspired by one of my favorite types...
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[Photographs: Chichi Wang] Sunday afternoon at the New York Culinary Experience passed in a flurry of fish. Masaharu Morimoto may have attended his sushi class with his arm in a cast, but he was flanked by his trusted crew...
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[Photos: Jonathan M. Forester] The East Village's Jimmy's No. 43 hosts all manner of culinary events—chili cook-offs, Slow Food dinners, popular bacon and beer nights—but I'd never experienced anything like last Thursday's gastronomic double-header. Not only was it local...
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"Chill the box and you get a cool, loose jelly. Freeze it and you get sorbet." At 5:30 on Saturday, I made my way to the Rockefeller Center location of La Maison du Chocolate. My objective? A postively luscious cup...
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Upon a fellow Serious Eater's recommendation, I went to izakaya joint Sui Ren to try their kamo ramen ($12), featuring duck broth, duck breast, soft boiled egg, and pickled bamboo shoot. Although I'm no ramen expert, I'd give it...
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Do you ever, when eating tofu, stop and really focus hard on it, asking yourself: "Am I just eating this because it's cheap, inoffensive protein, or does it in fact have flavor?" Well, we discovered a brand of tofu that is undeniably, immediately, and gloriously flavorful. It's called Otokomae and Sunrise Mart is very excited to be bringing the stuff to New York every week from Kyoto.
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The other night at Hagi I had the most wonderful drinking snack: gobo chips with spicy mentaiko mayo. Never heard of them? Neither had I, but when the bartender Sean told me that gobo was burdock root, I decided...
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Nestled in the basement of the Takashimaya department store on 5th Avenue and 54th Street is the Takashimaya Tea Box Cafe. Come during lunch hour or the late afternoon and the cafe is bound to be filled with lunching...
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