The Japanese izakaya experience is a super fun way to eat and drink, but what exactly does it entail, and what does the food ...

Not long ago, Los Angeles went through its new-wave tapas bar cycle. Then its gentrified gastropub moment. Now the town’s ...

In Japan, you’ll come across a couple of different sub-classifications of restaurants. There are senmonten, “specialized shops” that focus on variations of a single dish, like beef bowls or ramen.

They’re informal and typically inexpensive and, according to Yamamoto, they are “the heart of drinking and food culture” in Japan, where people often go from one izakaya to the next ...

All foodies on social media and offline raved about Japanese food and izakayas. There was an izakaya or a Japanese food place opening every week in 2024. What are izakayas? Izakayas are Japanese ...

Sylvan Mishima Brackett is the chef and owner of San Francisco’s acclaimed Rintaro, where he serves Japanese Izakaya food inspired by California. Sylvan was born in Kyoto and raised in Northern ...