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🍽️ Food & BeverageMay 8, 2026

A musician's approach to running a restaurant

Yuichi Iida built Warude out of his actual life — Japanese-Mexican fusion, world roots music, and a decade of showing up. How a Bed-Stuy restaurant survived COVID and construction by being too specific to replicate.

Mo Sall · based on a conversation with Yuichi Iida

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