All Japan News Blog
2018-07-23
Perfect unification of seemingly completely opposite concepts - take-out and omakase
By Aya Ota “Blue Ribbon Restaurant Group” has developed 20 restaurants nationwide so far, mainly in New York, plus LA, Las Vegas, Miami, etc. Since they first opened a small French Brasserie in the SO...
2018-07-22
Teppan cooking enjoyed by ears, eyes, and tongue
By Keiko Fukuda The city of Irvine, a suburban residential, and also a student campus town is located about a 40-minute drive south of downtown Los Angeles. There, there is a shopping mall, where as m...
2018-06-24
“Dawn of Japanese Sake” in Myanmar: Part 2
By Kosuke Kuji This February, sake from ten member breweries of the Japanese Sake Export Association arrived in containers at a port in Myanmar to be sold in restaurants. To commemorate this event, a ...
2018-06-23
A “Japan-quality” matcha café opens in San Francisco
By Elli Sekine In the Mission District of San Francisco, which is known as the base of cutting-edge food and beverages, start-up entrepreneurs and invested money of Silicon Valley always link together...
2018-06-22
Purposeful sake-making
By Yuji Matsumoto I often see breweries and wholesale dealers recommending their sake to local American diners at sampling events, saying, “This sake goes with any food,” “We use 100% Yamadanishiki ri...
2018-06-21
“Peace Dining”, a pioneer of sustainable sushi An interview with Josh Onishi, President and CEO of Peace Dining Corporation
By Aya Ota They say that the number of Japanese restaurants developing overseas has tripled in the past 10 years, and is reaching near 90,000 (*1). The popularity of Japanese cuisine never seems to de...
2018-06-19
Cutting into the US market with western-style cooking with a brand-new imagination
By Keiko Fukuda Red Rock opened in August of 2017 in Torrance, a suburb of Los Angeles, with the Slice Beef Don from Kobe as their signature dish. A rumor which said that you could taste a very unfami...
2018-05-26
The Dawn of Japanese Sake” in Myanmar: Part I
By Kosuke Kuji Japanese sake was officially imported into Myanmar for the first time in February 2018. Official export of Japanese sake to Myanmar that the Sake Export Association (of which I’m also a...
2018-05-25
Tsukiji-brand high-end donburi to go
By Elli Sekine The SOMA District, located in the south of San Francisco’s financial district, has been having a construction rush in the past 10 years, and high-rise buildings are being built one afte...
2018-05-24
To avoid being on the “losing team”
By Yuji Matsumoto This is a trend I’ve recently noticed in the last two to three years, but I’ve noticed a widening division between the winning vs. losing brands of sake and shochu. The reason is as ...