When I think of the word “beast,” Cerberus might come to mind, or maybe a Minotaur. When Ernesto Uchimura envisions a beast, he apparently hears a bleating goat. At Plan Check, the growing comfort...
Plan Check Kitchen + Bar executive chef Ernesto Uchimura creates site-specific signature dishes for each location. At the Little Osaka original, look for Rare Grilled Albacore Tuna with tempura rock shrimp, flaked wasabi, citron...
For LA Beer Week, collaboration runs at full-throttle. Breweries pair up with each other, with bars, restaurants, and chefs. Still, the collaboration Plan Check Kitchen + Bar developed with 1886 bartender Brady Weise and...
The craft beer scene in Charleston continues to grow. At Edmund’s Oast, a brewpub that pays tribute to Charleston’s first brewer, Edmund Egan, and the kiln used to dry hops, they deploy a 48-tap...
In honor of Mardi Gras, the debauchery-filled festival involving beads, floats, flashing and food in New Orleans, Plan Check chef Ernesto Uchimura created a deluxe NOLA Burger for both locations that ties together several...
Cutting-edge gypsy brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergso teamed with Chuck Stilphen, founder of the Trappist and Trappist Provisions in Oakland, on Mikkeller Bar, the Tenderloin outpost of Mikkel’s famed Copenhagen beer bar. The establishment became...