カテゴリー: Restaurants
The head of the sushi restaurant chain Sushizanmai bid 510.3m yen (£2.4m) for a single bluefin tuna, the highest price ever paid at the annual New Year auction at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market. ‘I hope the economy will get better this year. The Takaichi a…
Kiyoshi Kimura will turn prized 243kg fish into sushi rolls selling for £2.4o at his restaurant chainA sushi entrepreneur has paid a record 510.3m yen (£2.4m) for a giant bluefin tuna at a prestigious auction in Tokyo’s main fish market.Kiyoshi Kimura,…
Diners jump at chance to snuggle with cubs but wildlife experts accuse firm of ‘exploiting wild animals for selfies’A restaurant in northern China has been criticised by animal welfare groups for offering an unusual item on the menu: lion cub cuddles.A…
In New Zealand’s largest city, no-shame early eating has become entwined in a dining culture where booking a table past 8.30pm is a rarityIt’s 5pm on Auckland’s Karangahape Road, and the tables spilling on to the street outside Coco’s Cantina are full …
Reports of deliberately unhygienic behaviour have risen in recent weeks, including an incident in which a diner drunk from a soy sauce bottlePolice in Japan have made several arrests after the country’s multibillion dollar revolving sushi industry was …
Chains across the country have taken action after viral videos showed people licking communal bottles and touching passing foodCould “sushi terrorism” forever change the way millions of diners in Japan eat their country’s signature dish?The carefree da…
Signature cuisine is at the centre of a police investigation after customers at revolving sushi restaurants posted video clips of themselves meddling with dishesThere are breaches of etiquette – drenching your rice in soy sauce, for one – and then ther…
Jumbo Floating Restaurant encountered ‘adverse weather’ after being towed away from territory’s harbourOne of Hong Kong’s most distinctive restaurants – the Jumbo Floating Restaurant – has capsized in the South China Sea, days after it was towed away f…
Most of Britain’s Indian restaurants are run by Bangladeshis. So why don’t they promote their cuisine, asks restaurateur and poet Ahsan AkbarIn 1810, Hindoostane Coffee House in Marylebone became the first Indian restaurant in Britain. Its owner was a …
Dozens of people have changed names to include ‘gui yu’ to take advantage of sushi promotionA Taiwanese official has pleaded with people to stop changing their name to “salmon” after dozens made the unusual move to take advantage of a restaurant promot…
P Rajagopal, founder of popular Saravana Bhavan restaurant chain, dies of cardiac failureIndia’s “dosa king”, the founder of a global restaurant chain, has died days after losing a last-ditch attempt to avoid a life sentence for murder.P Rajagopal, 71,…