Blades Come Out at Benihana As Rocky’s Influence Wanes

Before the Iron Chef, before Nobu, Japanese cuisine meant Benihana, with its chefs chopping and bowing at the table, grilling mutant stir-fry concoctions like “Seafood Diablo” and performing antics like flipping shrimp tails up in the air and catching them in their toques.

Its mascot was Rocky (né Hiroaki) Aoki, the mustachioed daredevil founder of Read More

New Wave West Village KoreanMore Arty Than Authentic

Do Hwa is the latest new wave Korean restaurant to open downtown, following Dok Suni in the East Village and Woo Lae Oak in SoHo. It’s in a residential part of the West Village that has been injected with a bustling night life, thanks to hip young restaurants such as Isla, Blue Ribbon Bakery and Read More

New Wave West Village Korean, More Arty Than Authentic

Do Hwa is the latest new wave Korean restaurant to open downtown, following Dok Suni in the East Village and Woo Lae Oak in SoHo. It’s in a residential part of the West Village that has been injected with a bustling night life, thanks to hip young restaurants such as Isla, Blue Ribbon Bakery and Read More