Will Miss #44 - Akiyoshi yakitori-ya

a "tori-ju" and 5 sticks of sasami from Akiyoshi

There's a chain of yakitori restaurants in Japan called Akiyoshi that my husband and I have been fans of since shortly after we arrived here. Their grilling method is just right and they have excellent sauce. In our first few years here, we found it hard to resist going there once a week with coworkers after days that ended at 9:00 pm.

Though we go there relatively rarely these days, we're going to miss Akiyoshi when the option to go occasionally no longer exists.