Matt Abergel, an authority on yakitori chicken, is the head chef of Hong Kong-based restaurants Yardbird and Ronin. Having worked at Masayoshi Takayama's Masa in New York and at Hong Kong's Zuma, Abergel opened Yardbird in 2011 and is due to open a sister restaurant, Birdyard, in Los Angeles in 2018.
Yardbird's food is inventive and delicious, with riffs on Asian flavors that are exactly what you might hope for from a restaurant that follows Zak Pelaccio and Jonathan Gold on Twitter - New York Post