Kohada sushi (aka gizzard shad or spotted sardine) at Sushi Akira in New York City. (Sushi Akira / Nikki Zheng) Five nights a week, Mori Nozomi in Los Angeles, California is open for three hours.

Chef Nikki Zheng never planned to become a sushi chef. She always imagined herself on the line, but never considered sushi — a booming, highly coveted craft. While working at Sushi of Gari in New York ...

She learned from her husband, Shunei Kimura, who died three months after earning a star in 2022. Kimura promised to keep Sushi Shunei open, and the Michelin star has returned to the restaurant. Before ...

Chisaki Iba was working as the Chef de Partie at Mizuki in the Ritz Carlton Kyoto when a group of male diners asked her to serve them beer—their only direct request of the night. Until that point, Iba ...

"When someone comes in and sees a female sushi chef, I feel like their expectations are low, like, ‘Oh boy, what’s this going to be like?’” explains Morgan Adamson, the 30-year-old chef behind Hōseki, ...

Two-star Michelin restaurant Sushi Noz in New York City promises an immersively traditional experience, styling itself “like an ancient Kyoto temple,” according to its website, with not even a single ...

Luke Fortney is a journalist based in New York City. He most recently worked as a reporter for Eater, where covered restaurants and food trends for nearly five years. It’s the best of times or the ...

Women for centuries have been excluded from the art of sushi making in Japan, but a restaurant in Tokyo is working to change that. Nadeshico Sushi — Japan’s first and, so far, only exclusively ...

Five nights a week, Mori Nozomi in Los Angeles, California is open for three hours. During an omakase dinner, the eight-seat eatery is helmed by a chef who chooses what guests will eat that night.