My first taste of chef Shuji Hiyakawa's food came at an event last spring hosted by the Japanese Consulate in Miami, described as "...

A couple years ago I got pretty excited over a tiny storefront along Biscayne Boulevard serving possibly the best Thai food I'd eaten ...

Last month, I had the good fortune to be invited to an event at the Japanese Consulate in Miami, extolling the virtues of washoku, or the t...

Many, many years ago, when I first started writing this blog, I made a big mistake: I wrote about Sushi Deli. It's not that my reco...

There's been a deficit of "best thing I ate last week" posts the past few weeks on account of travel – Seattle a couple wee...

Some sort of sound had involuntarily come out of my mouth. I'm not sure exactly what it was; it may have been a moan. It may have been...

Last summer, I wrote some " first thoughts " about Myumi – a food truck doing an omakase-only sushi service out of a lot in ...

Nearly a year ago, I posted some thoughts prompted by an Eater " Future Week " feature on the future of Miami dining. One of the...

For a long time, I've been bemoaning the dearth of good sushi in Miami. I'm not even talking about in comparison to what I had in...

I knew once we'd decided to go to Boston that we'd have to visit a Ken Oringer place. He's a chef I've followed from afar fo...

When Kevin Cory moved his omakase temple,  Naoe , from Sunny Isles to Brickell Key two years ago, he also leased an adjoining space which he...

Perhaps it was over-ambitious to have made a dinner reservation for the evening of our arrival in Tokyo, after about seventeen hours of tr...

When the gang behind Pubbelly first announced that their expansion plans included a sushi bar, I'll admit I was more than a bit dubiou...

When I wrote about my first experience of stumbling upon Naoe , I described it as seeming almost like a dream: a tiny 17-seat jewel-box ...

When I wrote about my first visit to Naoe shortly after it opened, it felt much like recalling a dream with near-perfect lucidity from ...