On his return, he went to work on Kubo, opening the restaurant in October in Crystal Tree Plaza, a meandering, upscale mall that feels in the middle of as much nowhere as you can get and still be on U ...

Kubo means "long life" in Japanese and "small house" in Tagalog, the language of chef-owner Roy Villacrusis' native Philippines. "Asiatic cuisine" is Villacrusis' fiercely individual, breathtakingly ...