Back to Japan post. When we visit Japan, we always get together with my gourmet sister and her husband, and have a day filled with delicious adventures. This past winter, she started with this spot called Teuchi-Soba Kosuge in Tokyo. If you look up popular soba spots in this particular area, this restaurant will come […]
I am always looking for a “hidden” restaurant in NYC (or anywhere for that matter). When I found this place, I was very excited to visit them. Their name, Sakagura means a sake warehouse, so they have over 200 kinds of sake there, which is very impressive. They are more of an Izakaya which I […]
One thing about my eldest sister, she is a total, absolute, complete gourmet person. Since she was little, she always cooked up great dishes, from meal to sweets, and she still does that today. So, she knows good food, I mean, REALLY good food. She took me to one of her favorite Soba noodle place, […]
If you think you can’t get authentic, really great Japanese food in NJ, you should head over to Shumi in Somerville, NJ. The chef Ike is classically trained in Japan, and he often offers traditional ingredients such as uni, monkfish liver, and bluefin tuna. He is very friendly and almost always ready to take on […]