Hidden in plain sight along Manhattan Beach’s breezy main drag, Sushi I-Naba looks like someplace you’d find in a quiet suburb of Tokyo: a spare, nondescript storefront not much larger than a single-car garage. There are six seats wrapped around a polished wood counter and little else, save for Yasu Hirano, the sole chef, who […]
Blackship’s Italian-Japanese Fusion Isn’t Gimmicky, It’s Delicious
The name of chef Keiichi Kurobe’s debut solo restaurant is a reference to kurofune, the Japanese term for the first fleet of American ships that landed in Tokyo Bay in the 1850s, opening markets between isolated Edo-era Japan and the West. As expanding trade routes tend to do, the cross-cultural exchange led to a wave […]