Nagoya Dining

Whether you’re new in the city or are a Showa Gaijin, Nagoya is a city that always surprises. New restaurants, shops, and drinking establishments spring up all the time, and you can be wandering down an oft-trodden street and come across an ancient temple that you’ve never seen before. We all have our favorites, our refuges, our places that we like to call our own. In this More Than Relo series, Nagoya residents share their recommendations so you can get to know this evolving city as well as they do. Who: Karen Matsumoto Where: Sekiyama Monjayaki Karen moved to Nagoya as a teenager due to her father’s work and has been here ever since, but having been brought up on the outskirts of Osaka, she is perhaps the perfect person to be recommending a monjayaki restaurant. “My grandmother used to make monjayaki in a very classic style, so she would probably not understand Sekiyama and all its strange dishes, but I love it,” says Karen. Like a loose okonomiyaki cooked on a teppanyaki pan in front of you, monjayaki is a unique dining experience, but the range at Sekiyama makes it even more so. “There are so many monja to…