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About Us

Two artists, one from California, one from Japan, met one day at a gallery party…

About Us

Two artists, one from California, one from Japan, met one day at a gallery party…

About Us

Two artists, one from California, one from Japan, met one day at a gallery party…

Where It All Began

 

Two artists, one from California and one from Japan, met one day at a gallery party… Traci’s quick rundown of Cow history:

“I guess we should begin with why we started it in the first place to make sense of our journey through the last 20 years. In the beginning it was just me and my business partner, Naoya Teraoka. He was the bartender and I was the chef and that was it! lol. Neither one of us had restaurant or bar experience, at least not on that side of the bar! We are both artists who met in 1996 and collaborated on a studio and exhibitions together. I love to cook for people so we would cater our exhibitions and big parties for musicians, artists and performers I would host at my house. I was married to a Japanese guitar player so I had stayed in Japan but I missed California and just did not find a home for creative collaboration, think tank style mixed with party mania, like is so common in CA so I decided to make my own! Plus, there were no burritos that I could find in Tokyo and vegetarian options were very limited at the time (I am not a vegetarian myself but believe Everyone should have the option to eat great food!) so I decided to make that too! The theme kind of just became “Traci’s California living room.”

 

We started with art shows and music but over the years added every creative thing you can think of really! We combined, and were the first to do many, art shows, live music, dance performance, DJs, installation art, burlesque, Japanese Lounge night with culture, live body painting, vegan night, short film night… We were the first venue to introduce Bitcoins to Japanese retail, then the first place to put in a crypto ATM and we also host Bitcoincash. We even had Vitalik Buterin speak at the Cow along with many other amazing and cool people speakers, musicians and otherwise! We have had Medieval full armor fight demos, Martial Arts demos, Fire Dancing, professional Ninjas, Kimono dressing, Drunk poets night, magic shows, drag shows, comedy nights, Indian culture nights, Black History Month, PCC business networking, poker nights, tons of charity events…. etc…. And those are just the things we actually produced ourselves. We have also hosted a multitude of other types of events and parties for people! People have even gotten married at the Cow! Those are the happiest times! Like any community, it has evolved over the past 20 years, and some people have come and gone, others have been with us for the long haul, but our core values still remain the same. We are a restaurant & bar that serves great California-Mexican food on the business side and we always want to serve our community, especially our creative community, on our fun and happiness side 😊

From it’s inception, fresh, healthy, real ingredients have been very important at The Pink Cow. A California Fresh cooking tradition! We hand pick ingredients and slow cook our original dishes. Complementary to our healthy and quality food, we have added a line of health supplement CBD/CBG/Hemp products. We are proud to offer the highest quality, organic CBD products available in Japan for home delivery! https://thepinkcowtraci.primemybody.com/ 

You can also enjoy our great food in a few other ways if you are in our area. We offer take out, pick up, catering for for larger events (please email us for inquiries to cowmail@thepinkcow.com) and Ubereats. If you are not local or prefer the comfort of home dining we delivery our fresh frozen, handmade products anywhere in Japan! https://shop.thepinkcow.com/ 

 

Traci Consoli is a Cali girl in Tokyo and Pink Cow creator & founder. She graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara with degrees in fine arts and religious philosophy and has been in Tokyo ever since. She is still trying to move to the beach. The Pink Cow Island Resort is the dream! 🥰

Naoya Teraoka, Co-Cow Founder, is an artist and creative soul originally from Kobe. He has been in Tokyo since he enrolled at Tokyo Zokei art university. Naoya runs the daily operations at the Akasaka incarnation of the Cow so say hello when you are there! 😊  If you ever need to bring him a present, Star Wars will do 😉

Chef Andy

Since 2002 we have collaborated with wonderful Head Chef Andrew Warden. Chef Andy comes from a 5 star hotel restaurant head chef back ground and over 25 years of experience. His long career includes prestigious positions at the Institute of Directors, the Savoy and the QE2, London. He has even cooked for the queen! Over the many years Chef Andy has helped us to create our unique menus and food style and is part of the Pink Cow family and institution! 😍