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 ...

“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 ...

Few foods are as simple, as elemental, as grilled meat on a stick. The skewer is common to almost every culture and best in the most casual settings: on a backyard Weber grill, in the tight confines ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. The yakitori omakase (it’s $80 per person and add-ons are available). It comes with a selection of chicken skewers, ...

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 ...

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 ...