Warude

About Us

"WARUDE Japanese Bowl and Taco in Brooklyn, NY was opened in 2018 by husband and wife team Yuichi and Hiroko Iida. More than a restaurant, the WARUDE vision is to energize a movement for a better future and build a community that you will to be proud to be part of. The goal with WARUDE is to contribute to a positive cycle of better food culture, better environment and improved quality life for everybody. As well as founding WARUDE, Yuichi is a musician who plays Afro-Caribbean, African and Japanese drums. While traveling and playing in Jamaica Yuichi was introduced to “ITAL” food, a Rastafarian philosophy based on unity with nature and increasing your vital energy by eating whole, unprocessed food from the earth. In essence Ital food is means vital food. Through his study of Ital food in the context of Japanese cuisine, Yuichi found brown rice to be a potential superfood in terms of both nutritional and other inherent health benefits. Looking deeper, he found that since brown rice c