Osaka

Different Tongues: 10 Foreign Language Songs That Rule the World

A couple of caveats to this list: first, it actually includes more than 10 songs. Since one is sung primarily in English and another isn't technically a "foreign" language, they're considered halfsies, making up one whole. Also, no songs sung in Spanish are on this list. I'm not saying Spanish isn ... More >>

Grading the New Sushi Bar at Lobster Place in Chelsea Market

Lobster Place's uni (sea urchin) was breezy and briny, and got a grade of A-. As part of the current evolution of Chelsea Market, old tenants are grabbing more space and revamping their premises to provide more opportunities for the sale of prepared food. In this connection, seafood distributor an ... More >>

3 Boozy Holiday Markets to Visit this Season

Holiday shopping can be stressful. If you're incredibly organized and efficient, you've already bought, wrapped, and added personal notes to all of your gifts. But if you're like us, you've spent many workday hours scouring online gift guides and picking out things you want for yourself (Hint: Ninja ... More >>

Ootoya: Yo, Tokyo!

A Japanese mega-chain invades our fair city

Robert Sietsema At Ootoya; Tejal Rao At Sorella

[See More Under Review: Robert Sietsema At Ootoya; Tejal Rao At Sorella | Robert Sietsema at Hazar; Tejal Rao at Ken & Cook Robert Sietsema goes to Ootoya, also known as "the Denny's of Japan." There's a lot of diversity in the menu and save for the skanky sea urchin, the restaurant did fairly well ... More >>

NYC Food Film Festival Announces 2012 Selections

Selections for the NYC Food Film Festival have been announced. It sold out last year, but for those who aren't familiar with the event -- it's a film festival where you can taste what you see. Highlights include an authentic Lowcountry Oyster Roast, featuring South Carolina Oysters harvested in Bu ... More >>

The Story of Futomaki

The futomaki at Ootoya comes disguised like a birthday present. [See More Featured: 10 Best Incredibly Cheap Eats in New York | 10 Best Ice Creams in NYC] Futomaki is a type of sushi that looks like a regular maki roll blown up with a bicycle pump, but still retaining its perfect cylindrical conf ... More >>

Saba Pressed Sushi at Ootoya, Dish #85

Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in each day (weekends too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Lamb Barbacoa Taco at Empellón Taqueria, Dish #86 | Build Your Own Burger at Kent Ale House, Dish #88]

Russ & Daughters' Herring Pairing: A Photo Diary

Sweet-pickled herring with mustard sauce and fresh dill, mounted on one of those thin brown crackers of which Scandinavia seems to have a surplus. This evening I attended the third annual Herring Pairing mounted by Russ & Daughters at the Astor Center. There were eight dishes presented at eight di ... More >>

Gwyneth Paltrow's Hangover Tips Are Expensive and Impractical, to No One's Surprise

​The latest installment of Gwyneth Paltrow's indispensable GOOP newsletter deals with a topic of immediate interest to those planning to go out on New Year's Eve: hangovers. The surprising part of this is that Paltrow ever allows herself to drink to excess, but the unsurprising part is that he ... More >>

Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali of Takashi on Meeting at the Roxy, Falling in Love, and Celebrating Cow Intestine

Photo courtesy Takashi Inoue Beefy love: Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali ​ Mixing business and pleasure is a challenge for most people, but it wasn't for Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali, who are both partners and business partners, running the West Village Japanese temple to all things beef, Takashi ... More >>

Battles Announce Tour, Hit Le Poisson Rouge In April

​So Gloss Drop, the eagerly awaited new record from defiantly complex, deliciously weird art-rock trio Battles, is due out in June, which is great news, considering the excellent of 2007's Mirrored, which boasted, in "Atlas," probably the most appealing profoundly disturbing rock anti-single o ... More >>

Okonomiyaki, Your Osakan Flapjacks at Otafuku

Victoria BekiempisNo longer for the damn Buddhist elite!​ The simple pancake, according to archeologists (and random web pages), has a lengthy history. The ubiquitous quickbread can supposedly be traced far back in the human fossil record, owing to the dish's simplicity and high nutrient cont ... More >>

Live: Art-Rock Supergroup Soldiers of Fortune Hit Zebulon, Celebrate Their New Album By Not Playing It

Note the presence in the crowd of actual women. Pic by Mike.​Soldiers of Fortune/Water Fai Zebulon Wednesday, February 10 Better than: Real-life mercenary work. No one wants an opening band that can upstage the headliner, but Water Fai tried a little too hard not to rock the boat. The quarte ... More >>

My 10 Favorite NYC Dishes of 2010

​10. Smoked Meat Poutine at Mile End - It's hard to imagine an American restaurant improving on this working-class Montreal standard, but Boerum Hill's Mile End has done the trick, by garnishing the poutine with another Quebecois specialty, smoked meat, in addition to curds, fries, and gravy. ... More >>

Bill Clinton: Restaurant Ambassador; Michelin Suspiciously Favors Japan

​Forget the Michelin guide. For many restaurants around the world, the most impressive claim they can make is that Bill Clinton once ate there. [NY Times] A man in Michigan is suing Heinz for stealing his idea for dippable ketchup packets. Heinz, of course, says the suit has not merit. [Diner ... More >>

Coffee for the Very Patient: 18-Hour Slow-Drip 'Kyoto' Coffee

Oliver StrandThe creature Strand discovered​ Earlier today saw instant-gratification coffee delivered to the masses via an Italian espresso maestro handing out shots at Lincoln Center. Downtown, they make you wait: At month-old Caffetteria SoHo, Blue Bottle Coffee vets brew coffee at room ... More >>

Momokawa Shares the Taste of Kyoto With Manhattan

It's the townhouse of raw firefly squid

Takashi Lets You Grill Your Own Tongue

The food is offally good at a new West Village Japanese-Korean spot

Takashi in the West Village: Horumon-Yaki, or Grilled Guts

Beef heart sizzles on the tabletop grill​Takashi, a new Japanese grill-it-yourself restaurant in the West Village, does offer fancy beef cuts like rib-eye and short rib, but its focus is offal--or horumon, meaning something that's thrown away. Horumon-yaki (grilled guts) is a restaurant style ... More >>

At Hibino, Start the Presses!

Hako sushi and obanzai are the story in Cobble Hill

Ulrich Gebert, Penelope Umbrico, and Zoe Crosher Sail Through A Sea of Photography

Three shows try to sort through it all

The Sailor Man in New York

Invisible seafarers in a city still addicted to shipping

David Sax Talks About Saving the Deli and the Enduring Appeal of Hot, Fatty Meat

Tabletmag.com​Two years before David Sax was born, his paternal grandfather died while eating a smoked meat sandwich from Schwartz's Hebrew Delicatessen in Montreal. But the food that caused his grandfather's literal downfall was also his legacy: it "pickled my soul with a craving for salt, ga ... More >>

Real Osaka Udon Coming to Midtown

OiMax/flickr​According to Midtown Lunch, Onya, an outpost of the Japanese udon chain, will be opening on East 47th Street next Monday, the 14th. Its owners claim that it will be the first restaurant in the city to serve fresh, authentic Osaka-style noodles, saying that "they will do for Osaka ... More >>

Robert Wilson Pays Homage to Suzushi Hanayagi at the Guggenheim

Oshimania Plus the Japan Societygoes 'KRAZY!'

Late Edition: Crown Heights Sex Assault, NY-13 Nods; Yankees, Mets Suck

TWICE IN A LIFETIME

Absentee Boredoms arrange an encore

The Stuffing Dreams Are Made Of

Rediscovering a Japanese Artist's Elegant Conceptualism

Suicidal Librarian, Chain-Smoking Slob Discover Life's Elusive Symmetries

From Japan With Blood and Ceremony

Even New York’s Finest kowtow to classical kabuki virtuousity

Downtown Express

25 movies to catch at the Tribeca Film Festival

Cheap Beats

Garage Daze

Girls Take Center Stage in Their Own 'Warped Tour' Spin-0ff and Other Shows Around the City

Pissed Poor

Sports

The Road to Mecha

Parlez-Vous Français?

French Tries, by Romanian Eugene Ionesco, Come Alive

Magnificent Obsessions

When the Student Is Ready

The Making of Americans

Runner With a Cause

Japan's Michael Jordan Takes On the NYC Marathon

Turning Japanese in Rotterdam

From Sadism to Sweetness

Music

Jazz and Then Some

Music

Trip Teases

Starry Eye