Japanese Food and Cooking

Almondine Reopens After Sandy, Sweetleaf Serving Coffee-Cocktails in Long Island City

French baker Hervé Poussot was forced to close his Dumbo bakery, Almondine, after Hurricane Sandy destroyed all the equipment in the basement's production kitchen. Almondine, named Best Bakery by the Voice in 2008, finally reopened yesterday. The next few days will be "a sort of soft launch," says ... More >>

Year of the Takeout Day 215: East Noodle & Izakaya

Gyoza and Spring Roll from East Noodle & Izakaya (E 119 Second Avenue, 212-982-4285)

Like Bacon? Like Sushi? Now You Can Have Both at the Same Time

Yup, that's strips of smoked breakfast bacon stuck right in the middle of those maki rolls. It seems bacon has penetrated every lost galaxy of the dining firmament. Heck, you can get a peanut butter and bacon sandwich nearly everywhere, bacon is de rigueur on your burger, you can buy a men's tie i ... More >>

Fry and Fry Again at Izakaya Moku

Japan invades Koreatown, armed with gizzards and Coors Light

Katsuhama 55's Master Cutlets

A Midtown spot pounds out the pork while you pound down the sake

Koreatown's Izakaya Moku: An Early Look

Haemul dukbokki: Rice cakes, udon noodles and seafood in spicy sauce​ Izakaya Moku, a Japanese pub that opened in Koreatown in December, fulfills its mandate as a drinking-and-eating establishment, offering a slew of dishes that taste better the more sake you drink. Most taste pretty good no m ... More >>

Matsukado: An Early Look at the East Village's Newest Japanese Spot

Fried baby octopus​ Japanese izakayas often offer many dishes in different categories--noodles, fried stuff, cold dishes, grilled meats, rice porridge, and sometimes sashimi. But executing a long menu well is hard, and Matsukado, the new Japanese noodle and small plates place on Second Avenue, ... More >>

The Demise of Whole Food's Conveyor Belt Sushi?

EaterWhole Food's Sushiya, conveyor belt sushi​While out and about last weekend, we heard some interesting information about the Whole Foods on the Bowery.

Kubo-chan Ramen: New Ramen Pops Up Inside Murray Hill's Moco

Hideki KatoKubo and his ramen​Some people quit their corporate jobs to pursue their restaurant dreams, but Hiroshi Kubo is a Japanese businessman who decided to keep his "salaryman" day job, while making his ramen at night, sharing space at Moco Global Dining, a Japanese-fusion restaurant in M ... More >>

Scenes from Sushi Uo's Omakase: Creations of a 23-Year-Old American Sushi Chef

​ When you sit down at the sushi bar at Sushi Uo, a new Japanese restaurant on the Lower East Side, the first thing you might notice is that the head sushi chef isn't Japanese; he's an American named David Bouhadana. The second thing you notice is how young he looks--because he's 23. Ascending ... More >>

How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B? Okonomiyaki at May Chan

​ 3-D art or food? The okonomiyaki at May Chan Ramen and Robatayaki. (Click to examine more closely). A couple of months ago, May Chan Ramen and Robatayaki dropped like a piece of fruit from a tree into the dead center of the East Village. The conjoining of a ramen place and a robatayaki (Jap ... More >>

The Early Word: May Chan Ramen

Beef chahan and miso ramen lunch special​ The best thing there is to say about May Chan Ramen (119 Second Avenue), the ramen and yakitori joint that took over the storefront vacated by Love Saves the Day, is that the lunch special is a pretty good deal. You get a half-portion of ramen along w ... More >>

The Education of a Foodie

​ The Wooden Sushi Slicing Playset indoctrinates your three-year-old into the Cult of Sushi, but also teaches her knife skills, which could prove useful if other foodie children try to steal her lunchtime panino. For those foodie parents who want the ultimate gift for their own toddler or the ... More >>

Vegetarian Delights of NYC: Souen Noodle

chopsticksny​ If "vegetarian" is the last adjective you would want appended to the word "ramen," then "macrobiotic" must be the second-to-last. Organic and macrobiotic Japanese restaurant Souen, with locations in Soho and Union Square, opened a ramen shop this past spring in the East Village. ... More >>

ZuZu Ramen Leads the Noodle Charge East

The ramen explosion crosses the river

Cookbook Tester: Takashi's Noodles

Wakame Soba (the photos in the book are much prettier than mine)Takashi's Noodles by Takashi Yagihashi is a new cookbook from 10 Speed Press containing Yagihashi's exacting and precise recipes for Japanese noodles. The chapters are broken up by noodle type: ramen, soba, udon, somen, Asian noodles ( ... More >>

Cold Weather, Warm Noodles

Does the debate over the authenticiy of ramen, and the finer points of the ramen philosophy, leave you cold, or even strike you as a bit twee? Are you tired of waiting in line to pay $20 for a bowl of noodles? Can you actually say you give a shit if a pig foot, in the southern Japanese s ... More >>

Worth Every Penny: Soba-Ya's Lunch Box

The Early Word: Kambi Ramen House

Best Markets: M2M

Our Man Sietsema and the Wierd Sushi Bar

Egg-Salad Sushi at Sakae Sushi

New chain meddles with our expectations for Japanese cuisine

Wylie Dufresne Plays with Tofu

Matsugen: When Good Noodles Go Vong

Expense-account soba in Tribeca

Best Markets: Sunrise Mart

At Midtown's Soba Totto, Cucumber Qualifies as an Animal

"Sleeping with the Fishes"

Our Man Sietsema: 'Then There's the Really Nutsy Stuff'

A Shrine to Pig Feet Opens in the West Village

Japan's Fukuoka Prefecture arrives with its odd obsession

New UES Ramen Joint: "Halfway Decent"

The Frying Game

Extending the deep-fat frontiers on Carmine Street

Georgia on My Mind

Gotham continues to suck the best sushi chefs from the rest of the country

Roll, Sushi, Roll!

Sasha Issenberg serves up the raw facts on the global economy of a favorite meal

Tonguing the Devil

East Village Japanese offers unusual home-style delicacies

It's a Good One: Homemade Soba Noodles with Uni

Bait and See

Two New York cartoon fans seek a raw deal

Japanese Restaurant Week

Fat Tuesday: Yakitori Totto Edition

Breech Baby

A meditation on the colossal new breed of Japanese restaurants

Better Belly

Don't discard the lard at Japanese specializing in Okinawan

Daruma Bums

Please don't ban the bomb at cave-like Williamsburg Japanese

Undersea Toon

Sticking mainly to fish, new sushi bar appears on Houston

Natto for Everyone

Ordering like an insider

Goodbye, Columbus

Takayama tweaks it on the 4th floor of Time Warner Center

The Land of the Rising Sun—Through the Lincoln Tunnel

Japanese food mall Mitsuwa takes diners on a journey

Worth the Splurge

Frog. Period.

When the Student Is Ready

To Everything There Is a Season

Goodbye Ruby Foo’s