This is Chef’s Staples, where professional chefs dish on the gear they couldn’t cook without. This week: Chef Kiminobu Saito of Sushi Note in Los Angeles, CA. Off Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles’ ...

Learn about Japanese home cooking with Master Chef Saito, based on traditional Japanese cooking techniques! Featured recipes: (1) Lamb Niku-jaga (2) Strawberry Shira-tama Dumplings. Learn about easy, ...

Spring is here! So let's make some colorful spring dishes: Chef Saito's Chirashi Sushi Cake, and Crystal-clear Cherry Blossom Jelly. Chef Saito cooks Shrimp Spring Rolls with Japanese Herbs, and ...

Standing out in a crowded sushi market isn’t an easy task. But when hospitality veterans Andy Paxson and Dave Gibbs opened Sushi Note in Sherman Oaks in 2018, their eatery — which placed equal ...

The food you will tuck into at MEGU, the Japanese restaurant at The Leela Palace in New Delhi, has been described at various times as trendy, and even avant-garde. The cooking has flare, one of the ...

Like many of us, Sushi Masaki Saito chef Masaki Saito is spending a lot of time at home. We asked the social-distancing chef to whip something up with ingredients he already had on hand. His recipe: a ...

As a side note to this week's review of Izakaya Yuzuki, a 2-month-old Japanese restaurant in the Mission, I spoke to its chef, Takashi Saito, a alumnus of Ame and Kyo-Ya. In addition to making ...