biwa news
April 15, 2008
Yakitori Dinner with Kookoolan Farms
One of the great specialized restaurant types of Japan is the yakitori shop- an all-chicken restaurant! A simple yakitori shop is a one person operation: a few different cuts of chicken skewered and grilled right in ...
Apr 15th, 08 | Comments Off
biwa news
March 31, 2008
Spring Menu
Suspecting that the weather will change eventually... Will, Gabe, Matt and Chris have been hard at work preparing the Biwa Spring menu. The hearty braises and winter salads have been put on the shelf to make room for the ...
Apr 1st, 08 | Comments Off
biwa news
March 13, 2008
Our
First Anniversary
There are a lot of old shops in Japan. Without trying too hard you can find yourself in a 150 year old lantern shop, a tenth generation indigo dyeworks, or a stall that has been selling rice crackers since before one would imagine crackers had been ...
Mar 14th, 08 | Comments Off
biwa news
February 5, 2008
Valentine's Day at Biwa
Like a lot of things, the Japanese have their own perspective on the Valentine's Day Holiday.
"Giri- choco!" "giri" means duty and "choco" naturally means chocolate and the idea is simple:
Women give chocolate to their husbands, boyfriends, older brothers, ...
Feb 10th, 08 | Comments Off
