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Opening Night Report – Tiger Yuki Habitat – Familiar Introduction

What a night! The opening of the Tiger Yuki Habitat, at Two Dogs sports bar, was brilliant! As I approached the bar at about nine o’clock, people were spilling out into Oyafuko-dor...

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Como Es

Como Es is a music cafe and bar that recently opened in Imaizumi. Inside the renovated 50-year-old house, shop manager Yosuku Nishida's record collection of 20,000-plus LPs feature...

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• #Bars
• #Guide
• #Chuo-ku
• #Fukuoka City

Buta Soba Tsukiya

In Sep. 2018, chicken and soy sauce ramen purveyor Shinasoba Tsukiya opened a new tonkotsu ramen restaurant, Buta Soba Tsukiya. However the soup is not the milky white kind you’re ...

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• #Guide
• #Ramen
• #Fukuoka City
• #Hakata
• #Nakasu

Étoile Coffee

After working for four years at specialty coffee shop Honey Coffee, Minako Yamaguchi opened this shop to offer the unique combination of coffee and Japanese sweets, which are typic...

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Jujuan

Jujuan has created an original dish called seiro mabushi. Drawing hints from two types of steamed eel dishes, Jujuan uses brand name meat instead of eel. The Kuroge Wagyu beef come...

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Yokaban NY

Stephen Lyman (right), a Japanese government recognized shochu (Japan's indigenous spirit) ambassador from New York, recently relocated to Fukuoka to continue his mission to suppor...

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• #Bars
• #Guide
• #sake
• #shochu
• #Chuo-ku
• #Fukuoka City

Buy Me Stand

Buy Me Stand, a grilled sandwich shop started by the hip Shibuya fashion brand Son of the Cheese, opened inside Ropponmatsu 421 last September. This retro chic cafe offers nine kin...

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• #Chuo-ku

Petrol Blue

Music and film buffs love Petrol Blue, a tiny bar hidden among the jumble of hair salons and select shops in Daimyo. Sit at the counter or one of the comfy sofas and enjoy the soun...

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