Yakitoriguy, as he's known on YouTube, grills using binchotan during a pop-up at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Little Tokyo. (Shelby Moore / For The Times) The smell grabs you ...

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 ...

Hosting can be a lot, especially when part of the game is having the soirée you put together look effortless. In this series, veteran party-throwers tell us how they pull off their highly specific, ...

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 ...

Chef Bill Espiricueta isn’t just relaxing and waiting for the completion of the Source Hotel on Brighton Boulevard, where he will soon open Smok BBQ. Instead, he’s expanding his repertoire of ...

The smell grabs you first. Barely charred meat kissed by the radiating heat of binchotan charcoal and salty-sweet tare glaze sends out cartoon-worthy wafts of smoke. They lead to the grill where ...

This is Yakitori Alley (though it also has a less appealing name), perhaps the greatest concentration of yakitori street food stalls in all of Japan. If you don’t happen to be there, don’t worry: ...