Vol. 10 May, 2020

GENTLE: Enjoy the Gentle Experience

Gentle occupies two levels, with an Italian restaurant and bar on the 1st floor, and a sushi bar on the B1 level. It has a menu that lets people with diverse dietary habits enjoy dining together, and it greets its diners with features to excite and delight them.
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Finger Foods - The World of Bite-Sized Art

Finger foods are bite-sized dishes that easy to pick up. Called bite-sized works of art, edible gems, and the like, they can take forms ranging from hors d’oeuvres to desserts.
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Burgers Made With True Spirits

Brozers', a gourmet burger specialist restaurant, was founded in 2000 in Nihonbashi Ningyocho, in Tokyo's historic Shitamachi area. We asked the owner, Mr. Kitaura, about the secrets to its success and popularity.
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Thai Food Entertainment

Thai restaurant Gapao is the place to try all kinds of real Thai food, prepared by Thai chefs. It has three smart-casual branches in Aoyama, Ebisu, and Shibuya. We talked to Mr. Tomoya Takahashi, who is the overall manager, as well as a DJ.
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Saido Becomes the World's Top-rated Vegan Restaurant

Saido, a vegan restaurant tucked away in Jiyugaoka, has been picked as the worldwide No.1 in the “Best Vegan Restaurant Ranking” of over 110,000 restaurants on Happycow, the restaurant information website most used by the world’s vegans and vegetarians.
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The Vegetarian Chef in the Spotlight

World Vegan Project Vol. 1, an event for enjoying the world’s finest vegan course meals, took place at Horizon Tokyo in February 2020. Gijs Kemmeren came specially from the Netherlands to Japan as guest chef. He found some time in his busy schedule to grant us an interview.
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Global Kitchen Series No. 7 - Turkey

Interviewing Murat YAPICI, Chief Commercial COunsellor Turkish Embassy, Office of the Commercial Counsellor
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Things that are delicious have to be beautiful

In 2019, Yukiko Sato of Vegan cuisiniere and her former Le Cordon Bleu Tokyo colleague Haruna Kawano formed Veganista Tokyo, a unit that creates vegan products. They use methods they developed at Le Cordon Bleu Tokyo to recreate current trends and future basic items as vegan products.
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The Sparkling Winner of MissJapan Miss Sports 2020

Miss Erika Tanaka, who attends a university in Tokyo, has been picked as “Miss Japan Miss Sports” for 2020. The Miss Japan Contest began in 1950, and has taken place every year since, on the theme of “Aspiring to the true beauty of Japanese women”.
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Corona Shock

Delivery services are evolving with the expanding use of smartphones. Until now, “ordering in” has meant picking a meal from a delivery menu, which you already had on hand at your home or workplace, and calling the restaurant directly to place the order.
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