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The effervescent Leanne Valenti’s local-as-can-be take on Japanese bento box dining is exactly the sort of homestyle freshness and rainbow flavor your midday meal demands – and reason to spend many a wine-sipping evening (with the Saba San’s crowd) on that landscaped patio along East Cesar Chavez. Washoku, FTW!
This article appears in First Plates 2021 (Supplement) and First Plates 2021.
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