09/24/2026
What feels like lifetime ago, I opened a ramen shop/izakaya under two incredible award winning chefs in Westport, CT. It was there that I got to truly understand Japanese “blue-collar” food. Their menu was insanely delicious. It didn’t matter what you ordered. It would make you sink into your seat and fade away into the ethers, dreaming of umami laced dishes until you got to visit us again and have dinner.
Fast forward to today. I still tell stories of some of the dishes that were on the daily-rotating menu to my guys on the truck.
Now here at National Eats, we don’t make onigiri, okonomiyaki, or ramen. But we can dream, right?
Since this new creation was heavily inspired by Japanese cuisine and spawned from the Hawaiian burger we have on special, I couldn’t decide whether to name it a Japanese or a Hawaiian word. So, how about both? In Hawaiian, ‘Ono means delicious or simply just “tasty”. In Japanese, Matsuri means essentially “festival”.
Without further ado, from the labs of National Eats,
‘Ono Matsuri Fries
Crispy fries tossed in a pineapple-teriyaki spice blend, topped with Kahlua-braised grilled pineapple, layered with a our ginger-wasabi aioli, spicy Kewpie Japanese mayo, teriyaki sauce, and dusted with furikake omebashi spice blend, garnished with fresh cilantro for a little bit of brightness.
No need for an AI picture here. We’ll always show you what our food actually looks like.
Schedule for the rest of the week:
Thursday and Friday 11-6pm
S Nogales Highway @ the Honey spot
Saturday 26th
We’re only at Desert Diamond Casino for the Food Truck Roundup 6-10pm.
