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Chelsea
Butcher Shop
Queens, NY
Japan
Find | Butchers - New york, NY
I like Dickson’s Farmstand Meats. We buy some of our meat from Jake Dickson. I like his philosophy about using the whole animal, and about sourcing meat from local farms.
Recommendations
15 EAST
Union Square
Japanese / Sushi
Eat | Restaurants - New York, NY
It’s my favorite sushi restaurant in the city. I could eat their omakase menu every day. It’s probably the highest quality sushi I’ve found in the city.
94 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10009
T: 212.982.4140
East Village
Japanese
Kyo Ya is a great traditional Japanese restaurant. When I dine there, I start with the sashimi, then have their lightly fried tempura, and always order the Uni Kani Ikura Don (sea urchin, king crab and salmon roe over rice).
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Who
Chef Takashi Inoue is the co-owner of Takashi, a yakiniku restaurant in New York’s West Village.
Why
As a third-generation Korean immigrant born in Osaka, Japan, chef Takashi uses his heritage for inspiration at his West Village meat mecca. He specializes in yakiniku, table-grilling Korean-style Japanese barbecue, and horumon, meaning discarded goods or the innards.
Chef Takashi Inoue | Recommendations
April 16, 2012
West Village - New York, NY
TORI SHIN
Upper East Side
Japanese / Yakitori
I like Tori Shin, which is a yakitori, or the “chicken version” of what we do at Takashi—all the chicken cuts you can imagine, since they butcher the chickens themselves.
HAN JOO CHIK NAENG MYUN AND BBQ
41-06 149th Place, Flushing, NY 11355
T: 718.359.6888
Flushing
Korean BBQ
Eat | Restaurants - Flushing / Queens, NY
I order the duck BBQ or the pork combo BBQ, which has 7 or 8 different cuts of pork.
TONG SAM GYUP GOO EE KOREAN RESTAURANT
162-23 Depot Road, Flushing, NY 11358
T: 718.359.4583
Flushing / Auburndale
Korean
This is another favorite of mine. You have to get the 3-day miso-marinated pork belly BBQ, and the spicy squid. So delicious.
Flushing is my favorite place to go for authentic Korean food in New York. There are two restaurants that I usually fall back on.
NAKAMURA
2-3-22 Nishi-Shinsaibashi, Chuo-Ku, Osaka City, Japan
Osaka
Japanese / French
Eat | Restaurants - Japan
I always make it a point to go to Nakamura, which offers a Japanese and French-inspired omakase menu only.
YONEMURA
481-1 Kiyoi-Cho, Yasaka Toriimae Kudaru, Higashiyama-Ku
Kyoto City, Japan
Kyoto
Japanese
I like this style of cuisine at Yonemura in Kyoto.
There are so many, but I will name one for each of my three favorite cities in Japan.
UMI
Sannan Building, 1st Floor, 3-2-8 Minami-Aoyama
Minato-ku - Tokyo, 107-0062, Japan
T: +81/(0)3.3401.3368
Tokyo
Japanese / Sushi
The best sushi I’ve had is at Umi. Order the omakase and you won’t be disappointed.
