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A reader pointed out yesterday that Sapporo East, the always-reliable Japanese restaurant on First Avenue at East 10th Street, hasn't
been open of late. No one seems to recall the last time they were up and running. There aren't any signs on the restaurant, which opened in 1983, indicating a holiday break or closure. The phone rings and rings and is eventually answered by a generic greeting.
The restaurant closed in August 2010 for "emergency construction" … though there were signs up pointing to the temporary closure.
Anyone know what's going on here?
While writing for Fork in the Road last April, Robert Sietsema named Sapporo East one of the "Six Miracles of East Village Ungentrification."