A budy of mine just sent me this text message:
“Just went to Momofuku and here’s the thing- Biwa is better.”
I ate at Biwa last night, which might be the trillionth time. It’s still delicious.
That is all.
okay, here’s a video detailing the collective crush the Timbers Army has on the team’s new owner, Merritt Paulson.
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txt msg from NYC
Biwa Spring Menu!
I’ve made no secret of my adoration of Biwa. Here first, then properly, then in opposition to vastly deficient Japanese food elsewhere.
I’ve been there so much that I think I know everybody’s name. It colors my opinion, sure–so I won’t go on forever and ever about how good their food is. Okay, [...]
I’ve been away so long…
I apologize to my 4 readers that I have not been writing anything worth a damn about food in a long while. It’s tough to make food your hobby when it is also your job.
At the same time, cooking all day makes me totally unwilling to cook for myself at home, so I eat [...]
Biwa redux
The development of lower E Burnside –loE-bu?– has been interesting to watch. You have destination restaurants aplenty, but there are still day laborers hanging out on 6th and Ankeny and the homeless contingent forced across the river occupies the doorways of light industry after nightfall. This dangerous combination has led to horrified suburbanites [...]
Biwa vs. Mio Sushi… memorable mastication succumbs to maurading mediocrity
my apologies for the mumbling alliteration.
Biwa is a sunken restaurant-when you enter, the ceiling is low enough to be hazardous for the tall or mowhawked. Descending a wrangle of stairs to the cement floor, the restaurant is a warm, noisy, wood and cement concoction with spare industrial lighting and a bar abutting the [...]