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Food & Drink

Bowled over

Kagawa is a prefecture so enamoured with Sanuki udon noodles that the delicacy is both tourist attraction and TV star. We tuck in.

  • Issue #129
  • 10 min read
Four staff members smile outside a traditional Japanese udon restaurant with wooden signage and noren curtains.
Food & Drink

Getting a taste for it

Dining out in Japan’s capital never ceases to raise the culinary bar. We’ve picked out three venues that serve to highlight the city’s eclectic mix.

  • Issue #129
  • 6 min read
Two people in matching blue shirts and dark aprons stand side by side against a navy wall.
Food & Drink

Tipping the scales

Kiyoshi Kimura splashes out to buy the first tuna of the year but the larger-than-life methods of Japan’s King of Tuna rely on getting the small details right.

  • Issue #129
  • 4 min read
A smiling older man in a grey suit and orange tie seated in what appears to be a Japanese restaurant.
Food & Drink

Choux of a kind

Expat baker Morihide Yoshida believes the success of his Paris patisserie reflects the common culinary bond shared by Japan and France.

  • Issue #129
  • 3 min read
A man holding a wine glass gazes to the side in front of a warm wood-panelled wall.
Food & Drink

Food & drink

New openings from Lima to London, plus a few saucy table-toppers and something for your bookshelf.

  • Issue #124
  • 6 min read
Food & drink
Fashion

Naoki Takizawa

The fashion designer who oversees Uniqlo’s collaborations and makes outfits for Japan’s Empress Michiko, reveals how food – and a herbal remedy – has informed his work.

  • Issue #122
  • 6 min read
Naoki Takizawa
Food & Drink

Food & drink

We visit a jamón joint in Madrid, Norwegian café-cum-hotel in Tokyo and Parisian grocer par excellence.

  • Issue #120
  • 6 min read
Food & drink
Architecture

Height of taste

Japan’s capital is home to a new restaurant from the team behind Noma. We tested the flavour of its aesthetic fusion.

  • Issue #116
  • 8 min read
Inua restaurant kitchen team of chefs in blue aprons posing together, led by head chef Thomas Frebel in front right.
Food & Drink

Second helping

Shortly after scooping the top spot in our 2016 Restaurant Awards, Beard closed. Now its founder has returned from his culinary journey with a new partner and a brand-new restaurant.

  • Issue #112
  • 5 min read
Second helping

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