Music at Work
City Pop is not your typical restaurant kitchen music. While many male-dominated kitchens skew toward “hip hop and metal, often aggressive metal that makes you move fast, City Pop offers a special, more rarefied niche in the kitchen, emotionally elevating rather than punishing.
Steam Player
Most customers are happy to wait for Nobuyuki Toyoshima’s food because they love the 11-hour pork-chicken-and-bonito soup broth base that he makes, his go-it-alone ronin attitude, and because he’s trained them to be patient.