For just 500 yen, Yotteba izakaya customers could request a post-meal slap around the face from a waitress. Then someone was ...

A Japanese izakaya chain has discontinued its “face slap service” after receiving a customer complaint about injury and ...

Fukuro, Nadagogo and Yurakucho are 3 more popular takes on the concept, but their differences leave some asking - just what ...

The space that housed the Melbourne institution for 15 years has sat empty since April. A new operator has plans to open a ...

TOKYO—Japanese-style pubs, known as izakaya, are going bankrupt at a faster rate than during the COVID-19 pandemic, as ...

The restaurant featured in the hit TV show “Midnight Diner” is a wholly a fictitious izakaya. On a recent trip to Tokyo, I set out to find it anyway.

Michelin-starred chef Yannick Alléno opens L'Izakaya Dassai in charming Beaupassage, a Japanese restaurant where he reveals ...

Gyoza Bar is a “modern Japanese eatery” that will specialize in Japanese-style dumplings, also known as gyoza. Diners will be ...