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• Rocky Balboa$8.00
  Beaver Creek Farm (VA) quail egg, sea urchin, house-marinated salmon roe, shiso, wasabi, sweet shoyu dashi. Inspired by the scene in the movie "Rocky." You can chug it like the Champ or eat it with a spoon to savor the luxurious "eggs"

• Tako Wasabi$6.00
  Raw marinated baby octopus, wasabi, celery, apple, Arbequina olive oil

• Fried Garlic
  Confit garlic cloves, Kimchi-miso sauce

• Clayton's Preserved Vegetables
  Rice bran fermented vegetable, Sapporo beer, fermented vegetable, Japanese mustard. Our cook, Clayton, takes charge of a very temperamental Japanese technique of fermentation. Faithfully watched and tended to daily

• Grilled Cucumber$7.00
  Sesame-shoyu dressing, garlic, labne, dill, cucumber juice

Freestyle Izakaya Dishes

• Burrata$12.00
  Mentaiko oil, toasted nori, lightly whipped cream, orange zest, grilled bread. Inspiration for this dish comes from taramasalata: a Greek meze made from tarama, salted and cured roe, olive oil, and lemon

• Kuro Edamame al Ajillo$7.00
  Black edamame, extra virgin olive oil, garlic, lemon, ichimi

• Wagyu Beef Tartare$20.00
  Bubuarare, mentaiko, gochujang, lemon, olive oil, shallot, shoyu, sesame oil, kimchi, perilla

• Miso Salmon$14.00
  Broiled miso marinated salmon, endives, citrus dressing

• Lucky Karaage Burger$10.00
  Marinated fried chicken, sweet & sour shoyu tare, sesame bun, lettuce, Kewpie-yogurt sauce. Inspired by Lucky Pierrot, a Japanese chain of hamburger fast food restaurants founded in 1987

• Tamago "Tofu"$8.00
  Steamed, dashi-egg, chilled, Italian salsa verde, bottarga, ginger. Watch the episode "tamago tofu" on the popular Japanese series Midnight Diner!

• Spicy Tuna & Crispy Rice$9.00
  Yellowfin tuna, takanotsume chili, gochujang, white miso. An ode to the very inspirational Chef Nobu Matsuhisa

Grilled Dishes

• Jyaga Bata$6.00
  Grilled, Yukon potato, generous slab of butter, salt. Inspired by the amazing potatoes and dairy products in Hokkaido, Japan

• Grilled Avocado$8.00
  6 ½ yr old house-made ponzu, fresh wasabi, nori salt. Avocado is treated like a piece of steak; brushed w/ oil & cooked on the infrared grill. Funny but true. Inspired by the famous California Roll

• Tako-Teppenyaki$18.00
  Grilled octopus, Japanese style potato salad, pimenton butter. A twist on a Galician dish of boiled octopus, potato, olive oil, and pimenton

• Grilled Saba Filet$18.00
  Tampopo-dandelion greens, shallots, apples, raisins, sesame, soy. Inspired by Espinacas a la Catalana from Spain and the Japanese dish Ohitashi

• Shishitos with Chorizo$5.00
  Grilled shishito peppers stuffed with Mexican chorizo (4-pieces per order)

• Shishitos with Cheese$5.00
  Grilled shishito peppers stuffed with pepper jack cheese, jalapeno marmalade (4-pieces per order)

• Grilled Lamb Chops$8.00
  Simply grilled New Zealand lamb chop (2 oz), S&B Japanese curry, browned butter. This dish is cooked medium-rare, and we are unable to accommodate any other temperatures at this time

Rice & Noodles

• Yakiniku Donburi$16.00
  Sliced beef short rib, truffle-shoyu tare, button mushroom, scallion, sesame, Koshihikari rice

• Abura Miso Onigiri (Rice Ball)$4.50
  Fried eggplant, sweet miso, scallion, nori, Koshihikari rice. Literally a fatty miso rice ball. A vegetarian version of an adapted Okinawan family recipe from Chef Katsuya's childhood

Desserts

• Purin$7.00
  Vanilla custard, Japanese baby peach, peach vinegar, olive oil, zaatar

• Sake Poached Peach$7.00
  Poaching liquid kanten gelee, raspberry sauce, whipped cream