Mmm chicken! @yakitorikintori
A couple of things I love about this place.
1) Head to Tail chicken (and some pork and beef) including fun things like knee cartilage, gizzard, and tail (aka butt)
2) Service was excellent. Seems like they have improved based on reviews from when they first opened. Each order came at a really good pace just as we finished the previous one, Deep Fried things took a little longer
3) can make reservations! For both the tables or bar.
4) somehow with all the bbqing in such a small space the ventilation was amazing. Couldn't smell a thing unlike some places I walk in and it's a wonderful charcoal smell but get stuffy and hot.
Prices are good. At around $1-2 about skewer it wasn't heartbreaking to just order more whenever we wanted. Best is one skewer per type for every two people. More sharing makes the experience not very fun.
All the skewers we got were just with salt, although good the charcoal flavour didn't really come through (supposed to?). Nonetheless, all really good.
We also got the Karaage. It was wonderfully juicy chicken piece doused in the perfect amount of batter. We actually got it twice because she mixed up my nonkotsu karaage with this one. We didn't resolve it because it was quite good.
They also have specials with larger plated $5-8. Got a grilled whole squid. Highly recommended. They also had my favourite fried kimchi udon from Guu. Yum.
For dessert there is a roasted green tea brulee $5 which was everything you would imagine it would be. And ice cream including a sake vanilla (get this!), beer sorbet (tastes like beer slushie) , black sesame. (also favourite) and match green tea. Ice cream come in two scoops. It was my friends birthday and they gave us a great dessert platter for $12 which had the creme brulee and one scoop of each flavour.
It quiet (compared to guu) in here but lively enough to have a nice vibe. For our meal 4 people we spent about 20-30 per person and was full up.