Hints and tips:
...“It is not the same because at the restaurant, every centimetre is customised [in service of] the dishes,” says Agustin Balbi, Ando’s Argentine-born, Japanese-trained chef....
...After considering the restaurant’s glassed ceiling high above us, he playfully suggests why Japanese restaurants traditionally had low ceilings: to stop samurais from drawing their swords during meals....
...The Strangers’ Bar, Westminster The Cinnamon Club, Westminster Ichi-Rikki Sushi House, Westminster The Red Lion, Westminster The Despatch Box, Westminster Quirinale, Westminster During the 1990s, one...
...That is similar to tuna, mainstay of the most delicious sushi....
...He was due to have dinner at a favourite sushi restaurant that evening with one of his daughters and to chair a board meeting the next day. But before he could leave the airport, he was arrested....
...We are in Hamasaku, a swanky sushi restaurant he owns on the west side of Los Angeles....
...Sushi is to acquire Canada’s Bento Sushi in a deal worth 100 million Canadian dollars ($78.2m), to create one of the world’s largest Japanese dining groups....
...Looking round the restaurant, he declared disapprovingly, “They really should ban the wine list in places like this.”...
...The second, intangible and invisible, is conveyed by the Japanese expression “ichi-go ichi-e”, an approach borrowed from the Japanese tea ceremony, of offering hospitality, even though those on either side...
...The paradox at the heart of the “sushi summit” – as the encounter was dubbed after the two leaders dined at a renowned restaurant – is that Mr Abe looked to the US both for a renewed promise of security...
...Sushi restaurants have seen business slide, with those in inner-city districts such as Ginza and Shinbashi reporting a sharp fall in customers since March 11....
...Indian imports of Japanese food are estimated at just $2m per year, mainly of fish, tofu and seaweed, heading to speciality sushi restaurants, including in five-star hotels....
...Japanese stocks extended declines, with the Nikkei 225 Stock Average falling 1.7 percent to close at 9,449.47 in Tokyo....
...In theory, this would end international trade in what is prized Japanese sushi, but not stop domestic consumption....
...Entertaining usually takes place at restaurants and other public venues so most people have no need - and no place - for separate living and dining rooms....
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