Yukari Sakamoto is the author of Food Sake Tokyo and offers guided tours to markets in Tokyo. She is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, a sommelier, and a shochu advisor. As sakura season ...

TOKYO, Japan is one of the world’s gastronomic paradises. In this video we’re HUNTING down LOCAL spots and eating where the ...

Presented in a beautiful, layered black box tied up with a ribbon, my first meal in Japan arrived in style. However, as I unfolded the trays of lovingly prepared food, it was as I suspected it might ...

I’ve used this advice to find local bars, low-key restaurants, and izakayas where everyone has a bottle of nihonshu behind ...

In an illicit exchange beneath a grungy overpass, one man passes another a greasy, brown paper bag and says, "This will get you high." The bag contains karaage, Japan's beloved fried chicken. This ...

Some of Japan’s most famous foods — sushi, yakitori, tonkotsu ramen — make the country’s food scene seem a bit daunting for visitors or locals who keep vegan or vegetarian diets (or avoid items like ...

At most local Japanese restaurants, rice is rice and soy sauce is soy sauce — but at the new Michi Japanese Cuisine in Napa, it’s a different story. Here, chef Michiyo Hagio serves Koshihikari, a ...

El Muelle 8, praised for serving some of L.A.’s best mariscos, returns. A Korean barbecue spot teams up with a buckwheat noodle specialist to create Seogwan by Yellowcow. Echo Park’s plant-based Men & ...