Chef Katsu Brooklyn

NYC Restaurants Are Back — Here’s Where to Eat to This Summer | Eater NY

"When the restaurant below their Clinton Hill apartment closed during the pandemic, married couple Katsutoshi and Chiemi Machida found the perfect home for the Japanese comfort-food pop-up they’d debuted at Smorgasburg in 2018. The menu is blissfully straightforward: The marquee Katsu Burgers — panko-crusted cutlets fried and topped with slaw and housemade sauces — plus photogenic rice bowls and a handful of sides. For dessert, the clear move is the doughnut matcha-ice-cream sandwich, unless you happen upon the chef’s elusive hojicha cream puff. And the place to eat it is out in front on the lovely tree-lined street among the work-from-homers and the French bulldogs. —Rachel T. Sugar" - Eater Staff