We’ve talked before about the shockingly large portions and amazingly low prices of Kitchen Dive, a bento boxed lunch takeout shop in Tokyo’s Kameido neighborhood. This Saturday, though, Dive is doing ...

Tierney Plumb is an editor of Eater’s Northeast region, covering D.C., Boston, Philly, and New York. Dupont Circle just got an anticipated, graffiti-lined Japanese gastropub that transforms into a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TOKYO — Washoku, traditional Japanese cuisine, has been registered on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The registration is believed to be in ...

Maybe you’ve seen them in a Studio Ghibli movie, or maybe you’ve seen them in a TikTok tutorial. What is there to learn from bento boxes that are suddenly popping up in Western culture? To put it ...

Most Japanese bento include rice, often pressed into easy-to-eat shapes. When that ubiquitous rice is coaxed into bite-sized cylinders, the meals become known as makunouchi (literally translated as ...

Tierney Plumb is an editor of Eater’s Northeast region, covering D.C., Boston, Philly, and New York. After a three-month hiatus, Japanese lounge Tokyo Pearl reopens in Dupont today with an expanded ...