Fukushima restaurants

Food & Drink | OSAKA RESTAURANTS Jul 22, 2014

Pancotei: 'Kushikatsu' morsels prepared with obsessive care

by J.J. O'Donoghue

Precision. This is the premise on which everything at Pancotei is based, from the angle of the ear of wild asparagus, the volume of the froth on a glass of beer, the suitability of a single Japanese maple leaf as an adornment to a ...

Food & Drink | OSAKA RESTAURANTS Feb 25, 2014

Hanakujira: Steamy scenes from the oden pot

by J.J. O'Donoghue

Hanakujira is an all-society restaurant. At 5 o'clock on a Monday evening, the air still frigid with cold shock after a recent snowstorm, Osaka's great and ordinary are packed inside (and queuing outside) to get close to the steaming vats of oden. There are ...