This week Michael's Cafe American partnered with Italian Bar Ittemicca, On-Cafe, NoTo General Store, and other Tono restaurants to serve…

This week Michael's Cafe American partnered with Italian Bar Ittemicca, On-Cafe, NoTo General Store, and other Tono restaurants to serve…
Tonight we're honoring the coolest kids in town, Didac, Delia, and Gaia Piazza. Didac is moving to attend a school…
Golden Week brought many new faces, and lots of good food and celebration. We're still new (only about ten weeks!)…
Happy Constitution Memorial Day! Many Japanese workers get about a week off around the end of April and beginning of May. This is because there is cluster of national holidays during this time. The week starts on April 29, a national holiday that used to be celebrated as the birthday of Emperor Showa ...
How to eat a large -- make that really large -- hamburger? Easy! Share it with friends. Our upcoming Kikori Burger is big enough to feed a woodsman, logger, farmer, sumo wrestler, or hungry teenage track & field competitor.
The weather is warm, Golden Week is almost here, and the beer is cold! We also have cold beverages like…
Charolette is from Dallas, Texas, now an English teacher in nearby Kamaishi. She came to confirm that it really is…
It's easy, just point to it on the menu! Hmmm. There's two children here, but one is hidden. Where did…
Chizuko's banana bread just got better. Today's fresh-baked treat is banana bread with candied spiced pecans, and orange zest, made…
Read More Chizuko’s Kitchen: Banana-Pecan Bread with an Orange-Zest Twist
This time Chizuko added a home-made caramel sauce finish to the baked apples, cranberries, and walnuts, and instead of won…
Michael's Cafe American is so new (less than two months) it might not be easy to find on the map,…
These girls came from Hanamaki to visit the cafe. Turns out, they're sisters! Four sisters, and there's two more, not seen…
The opening sequence of Hitchcock's 1958 film classic "Vertigo", viewed by Alfred Hitchcock's Japanese doppelgänger.