“We May Have to Close Next Year”: How One Diplomatic Sentence Is Killing Japanese Restaurants in Beijing
BEIJING — Kazuyuki Tanioka has run Toya, his 18-seat omakase restaurant in Beijing’s Chaoyang district, for more than a decade. On a normal weekend, he turns the tables twice. These days, he’s lucky if four customers walk through the door. “Since mid-November we’ve had over 60 cancellations,” the 52-year-old chef told me, wiping down a … Read more