He was a fry cook with few restaurant ambitions. Then he smelled the lobster stock

Charles Namba's road to Tsubaki, L.A.'s beloved izakaya, and Ototo sake bar began with a dead-end pizza job, an escape from LA to NYC and a return to the food of his childhood.

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