First time enjoying an Izakaya style for a night time snack. We had to climb a few flight of stairs and upon entering someone helped us get seated and they banged on the drum as the workers greeted. We sat right in front of the cooks in their station to see the action, so I thought that was cool.
We started out with their tiger shrimp deep fried with mayo. 6 pcs and it was enjoyable, but definitely would give you a sore throat eating too many of those. Then we got their skewers where you can have 5 different styles. They got pork belly with green onion, beef, chicken, asparagus bacon, king oyster mushroom bacon.
I like to say that the most enjoyable ones were the bacon wrapped stuff and beef. The worst is their pork belly which was really chewy.
We also got their salmon with seaweed in a miso soup style. This to me is just normal, nothing to report about. My gf got the rice with poached egg and pork belly. Again, the pork belly is kind of dry. With just these dishes ordered, BAM $40 +TAX!!! No drinks too. Kind of steep, and I'm not sure if I would enjoy coming back a bit disappointed again. Maybe I'll give Guu a shot since they're top notch Izakaya.