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| - Aka-oni Izakaya is solid Japanese restaurant that offers many great choices at a somewhat premium price in an area that lacks quality Izakaya options. While there are some hit and misses, I had a really enjoyable experience here.
We came here for dinner on a weekend evening and had a wait around 30+ minutes. Needless to say, you should probably reserve in advance; especially since the restaurant is still new.
They have a fairly impressive menu with tons of options to choose from, including a few vegetarian options to don, to ramen so I'm sure you can find something for everyone here.
We ordered the $28 take set which had bits of everything but were disappointed by the amount given. It included: sushi/sashimi (6 pcs), 4 small baked scallops, 3 seared tuna, 2 chicken skewers, and rice. We thought we could get away with sharing add a couple of items but there wasn't really enough to go around. The sushi is decent but was nothing super special although the other items were tasty. In particular, the scallops and the seared tuna. The spicy mix special roll ($7.50 for 5 pcs) was a crunchy spicy salmon/tuna roll and was satisfying. Overall, I felt like their sushi rice here could have been better - it wasn't warm enough and was too 'sticky'.
Same idea with the black cod which was marinated with miso served with mayo. Super tasty, flaky melt in your mouth kind of fish, just not enough of it for $12, it's no larger than our smartphones these days. I really liked the miso touch to it, it was subtle yet added loads of flavour.
The BBQ eel pancake was a really FLAT okonomiyaki with a piece of eel on each piece/quadrant. It's your typical okonomiyaki, just paper thin. To finish it off, I was was pretty impressed with their tofu cheesecake. It wasn't overly sweet and was pretty fluffy.
Service was good although we did try to order an extra item which got lost but that's OK as we didn't want it anymore.
All in all, I would definitely come back to try other stuff on their menu and it's good thing that this plaza has another good place to frequent!
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