- Justin Fox Burks
After the holidays, tired of the cooking from my own kitchen, I treated my family to the cooking from Ken Lumpkin’s Midtown restaurant, Umai.
I’d heard that Lumpkin, who opened his Japanese and French cuisine restaurant three years ago, had rolled out smaller plates and lower prices, which sounded good to me after the excesses of Christmas.
“Now you can spend $15 and get two or three plates, but the quality of the food is still the same,” Lumpkin said, explaining how his new menu reflects more affordable prices and lessons learned from his mother, Sumiko.
