Aburiya Kinnosuke - New York

I've had lunch here a few times with a colleague. It's a casual intimate spot with a good selection of lunch menu items to meet different tastes and budgets.The service is efficient and friendly. There is a limited array of raw fish choices, so it's not a sushi place by any stretch but I got the sashimi selection and it was excellent quality.I've also had the black cod set and the asparagus appetizer, both very tasty and the dishes are not large so it's nice to add on.The lunch menu is not extensive, though there are enough choices to make it difficult, even if you end up getting the same thing. This also typically allows the restaurant to focus on providing quality on a smaller selection. You can pick from among different kinds of meat and fish. There are some veggie/vegan dishes as well.Decor is simple traditional Japanese with enough space between tables to not be cramped. There are sectioned off tables.

My friend took me there and told me they got best karaage (Japanese fried chicken) and he was not wrong! Wow their chicken was big and tasty. Other items were very good too. Not only the food was great, but the service was very good too. Even tho we got in 10min their closing time, they were very accommodating and never complained or rushed us. Totally worth visiting.

Came here with a group of 6 for dinner. While some of the food was very good, most of the dishes were just average or even below average. Drinks: Lychee martini: 2/5 It got very water down and I could barely taste any lychee flavor. Appetizer: Agedashi tofu: 4/5 Love the sauce but wish the tofu to be softer/smoother. Age shishito: 4/5 Portion was very small. We basically got one piece of shishito per person. Flavor was good though. Tako wasabi: 5/5 Perfect amount of wasabi and not too spicy! Highly recommend if you eat raw food! Sesame asparagus: 5/5 Asparagus was perfectly cooked and the sesame sauce went very well with the asparagus! Assorted tempura: 2/5 The tempura was not crispy at all. Both the tempura and the sauce had almost no flavor. Could not even taste any salt on the tempura. Entree: Beef tongue: 3/5 The flavor was fine but it was way too chewy and it was very hard to bite through Grilled Salmon belly: 5/5 probably my favorite dish in the entire meal! The salmon was sooo moist and flaky! Unagi don: 5/5 Perfectly cooked rice with tender eel! Sukiyaki: 4/5 It came with beef, onion, tofu, and konjac noodle. It was too sweet for our taste and I wish there would be more beef and other toppings in there. Yakisoba: 2/5 This was just not what I expected for yakisoba. Traditional yakisoba is a dry stir fried noodle with yakisoba sauce (a Worcestershire based sauce) and this yakisoba was nothing like that. It had a very thick sauce on it. The entire dish was very wet and salty. Overall, this place was just okay. The portion of the dishes were very small and most of the entree also didn't come with rice. Since I came with a big group of people, I could try more dishes and most of the food here was a hit or miss. Given the price point, I don't think it was worth it and will probably not come again.

Our first dinner on a Sunday evening, just my husband and myself, delighted us. The welcome, the service, the food, the setting, it was all very satisfying. So much so, that we decided to go back as a family a few days later. The reservation with Resy, which had been modified to accommodate 3 instead of 2 people, had obviously not been registered with the restaurant. This led to a very cold and argumentative welcome. As I’d that were not unpleasant enough, were then shown to the darkest and most ill lit booth and when we asked to change It for another available booth, it was done quite belligerently. The food was good, again. But the welcome spoiled it for us that time. Too bad because we were happy to recommend this authentic feeling Japanese restaurant.

I remember when this place first opened. Must have been like ten yrs or more ago... it was awesome then. One of the few places that served ankimo. This was before all the izakaya and sushi omakase boom. Now this place has fallen off quite a bit. It doesn't seem that different from many of the other izakayas. In fact, it's a bit worse than other more trendy Japanese yakiniku or yakitori or izakayas. Shame.