Sushiko co-owner Daisuke Utagawa has hired a head chef for his forthcoming ramen joint in Chinatown. WaPo's Tom Sietsema reports that Okinawa native and Think Food Group alum Katsuya Fukushima will helm the kitchen at Daikaya, which is scheduled to open behind the Verizon Center in February. Following a research trip to ramen shops throughout [...]
Even the Fractured Prune Didn't Think of That: D.C.'s tantalizer-in-chief Erik Bruner-Yang is at it again. The chef behind the cover-charge-worthy pho dog has again partnered with U Street Music Hall proprietor Jesse Tittsworth on some inventive new menu items set to debut at the club this weekend, including a pork belly doughnut (pictured above) [...]
Inevitably with every good interview, there is never enough space to fit every interesting detail. Herewith, the second in a series of outtakes from Young & Hungry's profile of the "Toque of the Town." During my recent visits to Toki Underground, at least two of my dining companions felt compelled to comment on the gauze-like [...]
Inevitably with every good interview, there is never enough space to fit every interesting detail. Herewith, the first in a series of outtakes from Young & Hungry's profile of the "Toque of the Town." On my first visit to Toki Underground, the H Street corridor's hugely hyped new ramen joint, my friends and I were [...]
The buzz has been building for months now. And now the District now has a hip Taiwanese-style ramen shop on H Street NE! Erik Bruner-Yang's Toki Underground opened on Friday. On Saturday, there was a three-hour wait! Certainly, Toki's opening is exciting news, though it's too early to weigh in with any definitive assessments. Young [...]
The news has been long speculated, but now it's true: The area's best Japanese noodle shop, Ren's Ramen, will close on Friday, August 20. Owners Yoko and Eiji Nakamura had been subletting their tiny space from Daruma Japanese Market, but when the market closed earlier this year, the couple negotiated a month-by-month lease with the [...]
In doing research yesterday on my next Young & Hungry column, this one on ramen, two people asked if I had ever seen Tampopo. I had to confess that I had not. Until last night, that is, when I sat transfixed for nearly two hours by writer-director Juzo Itami's free-association comedy about one noodle-maker's search for the [...]
The miso ramen at Ren's Ramen in Bethesda Ramen may be a Chinese import, but Japan has made the noodle all its own. The pleasures of eating true ramen soup are almost too many to catalog: the salty savory broth, the richness of the partially cooked yolk (should you add the seasoned, soft-boiled nugget), the [...]
It's long been a truism that if you wanted good (or even decent) pho or ramen or soba soups, you had to drive to the 'burbs, whether Falls Church or Rockville, to get your fill. But there's been encouraging news lately for Washingtonians who want to stay closer to home for noodle soups.
