About
An editorial brand, not a restaurant.
Autre Kyoya is an independent project about Japanese cooking, ingredients, and where to eat Japanese food in New York. It does not take reservations or serve meals.
Who is behind this
The original Kyoya restaurant in the East Village has closed. Autre Kyoya carries the name forward as an editorial project, not as a working dining room.
Autre Kyoya is published by a small editorial team rather than by a single named critic or chef. We are home cooks and people who eat out often, writing about Japanese food with care: tested recipes, honest sourcing notes, and dining coverage that treats both the cooking and the reader with respect.
We are not a fine-dining institution and do not present ourselves as one. What we keep from the restaurant that closed is an attention to detail, applied to writing instead of service.
How our articles are made
AI assistance disclosure
Articles on Autre Kyoya are drafted with the help of AI tools and then reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by the editorial team before they are published. The team is responsible for what appears here. We do not publish under invented author personas, and we do not claim hands-on testing, lived experience, or credentials that the team does not have.
When a piece relies on outside information, the sources are cited at the foot of the article. Where a recipe or method is widely documented, we describe it plainly rather than dressing it up as a personal discovery.
Editorial standards
A short set of rules we hold the writing to.
- No paid placementWe do not sell rankings, listings, or coverage. A restaurant cannot pay to appear or to rank higher.
- Sources citedWhen an article draws on cookbooks, reporting, or reference works, those sources are named so readers can check them.
- Plain claimsNo superlatives for their own sake. We try to say what a dish or place is, not to crown it.
- CorrectionsIf we get something wrong and it is pointed out, we fix it and note the change.
- Honest authorshipAI-assisted, human-reviewed, attributed to the team. No fictional bylines.
Image credits
Photographs on the site are reused under their stated licenses. Where a license requires attribution, the credit is given below; images released under CC0 or the Public Domain Mark require none.
Contact
For corrections, source questions, or to flag an error, reach the editorial team. We read everything, though we cannot always reply.
- Editorial
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- Corrections
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- Scope
- Japanese cooking, ingredients, and Japanese dining in New York.