Kamikaze Kitchen has come a long way in three years.
Launched as a food truck in 2018 by Nic Riccardi and his wife, Libbe, Kamikaze Kitchen’s Asian-New Mexican fusion quickly developed a following and in a year found a home base in the back of Red Door Brewery Downtown. A year later, Riccardi and his wife opened their own place at Wyoming and Comanche in the Northeast Heights.
I visited the Red Door location in 2019 and found Kamikaze Kitchen’s spicy fried food to be an ideal match with Red Door’s beers. Less ideal was the setup. The small kitchen was wedged in the back of the cavernous space, leaving diners in the front feeling like exiles.