Summer cold noodle season officially open

The signs are all here – warmer weather, student exodus, sudden rainstorms, construction crews ripping up the asphalt leaving neon-painted personhole covers jutting from the roads – it’s just about summer.  As if further evidence was needed, I had...

Porter ExChanges

I ventured out at Lunch today for several reasons, not least among them to get some spring air.  And some lunch.  The destination: Porter Exchange.  The observations: several… Kotobukiya Sushi Bar is doing great.  I had a very nice crunchy spicy salmon roll....

Fried octopus balls at Ittyo

Lunch with agile marketer Tangyslice and his buddy @JonBornstein at the Porter Exchange.  If you haven’t been to the Porter Exchange, you’re missing out.  It’s an old art deco Sears turned into a mall with a corridor of very authentic little Japanese...