Restaurant review: Wasabi in Ridgewood

Restaurant review: Wasabi in Ridgewood
Friday July 26, 2013, 7:12 AM
BY  BOB PROBERT
SPECIAL TO THE RECORD
The Record

As a kid growing up in Ridgewood, I would never have imagined that Lyon’s Stationery, my favorite corner store and junk food purveyor, would one day be a fine Japanese restaurant and that I’d have the opportunity to review it. Lyon’s is long gone, the space seeing a parade of tenants until head chef and owner Kazuhiko Takahashi opened Wasabi in 2000.

After graduating from high school in Japan, Takahashi entered the merchant marine, but when budget cuts led to layoffs, he found work at a local restaurant. He received no formal culinary education and says that all of his training has been hands-on. Arriving in the U.S. in 1985, he went to work at East Japanese Restaurant in Manhattan before striking out on his own — and we’re fortunate that he did.

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Wasabi
848 E. Ridgewood Ave.,
201-493-7575