Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For over a dozen years, n/naka chef Niki Nakayama has been revered among L.A. restaurant mavens and the Hollywood crowd alike as a ...

Set your alarm for tomorrow morning. N/naka, long one of the city’s harder to score reservations, also has some of the hardest to get takeout. The restaurant opens up reservations on Tock for its ...

LOS ANGELES — As chef of n/naka, her celebrated kaiseki restaurant in Los Angeles, Niki Nakayama painstakingly and famously tries to never repeat a menu for any diner.

“Oboro” translates from Japanese as “clouded” or “hazy,” sometimes in reference to the view of the moon. The allusion clicks when you peer down at a bowl of just-made oboro tofu at n/soto. Round, ...

For over a dozen years, n/naka chef Niki Nakayama has been revered among L.A. restaurant mavens and the Hollywood crowd alike as a master of the kaiseki style of dining — the elaborate Japanese ...

Nakayama, who founded n/naka along with her sous-chef and wife Carole Iida-Nakayama, was featured on the first season of Netflix’s “Chef’s Table” in 2015 — the only female chef on that season — and ...