“Ura! It’s Ura!” Up in the nosebleed seats of Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo’s packed-to-the-gills sumo arena, I’m cheering for my favorite wrestler with a skewer of grilled chicken. It’s not that I’m ...

Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. Ever since I received a yakitori grill for my birthday last December, I’ve been more popular than I have in my ...

With a stockpile of meticulously dissected, organic, free-range Pennsylvania chicken cuts — lacquered in a five-year-old soy sauce mixture and tethered on skinny bamboo sticks awaiting the glowing ...

Traditionally, yakitori specifically refers to grilled chicken parts (yaki means skewers and tori means chicken). Here, juicy dark thigh meat is marinated briefly in mirin (sweet rice wine), sake and ...

Just west of Tokyo’s Shinjuku station, the busiest train station in the world, the air is said to be heavy with the irresistible aroma of chicken cooking on charcoal grills. This is Yakitori Alley ...

A quintessential Japanese soul food, yakitori, or grilled chicken skewers, is a culinary exploration of the entire bird from neck to tail. It is cheap and cheerful, and a staple in Japan’s food ...

There’s much more to yakitori than grilled chicken on a stick, though that is, at first glance and by name, the long and short of it. One of Japan’s most pervasive cuisines, the simply monikered craft ...

If there’s one thing you can count on Hina Yakitori to do right, it’s chicken. In pre-COVID times, the cozy Divisadero Street spot made a name for itself serving the region’s only omakase-style ...

There is something very satisfying about eating things on sticks – everything from the candyfloss I ate in my youth to lurid yellow curry fishballs I enjoy now. It is also one of my favourite ...

Even from the outside, you’ll quickly get the theme: a retro Japanese train station. It’s a small place, but you can grab one of their mini fans to cool off. Take a seat next to their digital “window, ...