The duo behind this tiny restaurant inside a small restaurant puts out some fun and playful dishes that are available only on Mondays and Tuesdays. I enjoy setups like this where the chefs are actually cooking and there's no mistake who's preparing your food. It's like hanging out at a friends house. Don't expect the food to come out lightning fast like in an assembly line style full service resto. Everything is made to order and that fucking rocks. I stopped by for a quick bite to pad my pouch before a night out of heavy boozing... Grub time!
Cute menu with an assortment of small dishes... Mix and match. You can't go wrong here.
Hot Somen. Corn soup, salted uni, arugula. Cute idea but the execution did not meet up to expectation. It needed more uni flavor and the arugula dominated the other subtle flavors... Hell, add some dashi to it and that would enhance it instantly. I still wished they had used more uni.
Okonomi-Yaki. Octopi, cabbages, kewpie, "happy brown sauce", bonito flake, nori, pancake. This ain't a small dish... There's a lot going in there. The bonito flakes give it that creepy animation like it's still alive. Cool. The use of semi-dried octopi tasted more like squid but it was close enough. It's a cute snack, a definite gut filler and booze absorber.
Pig Cold Ramen with Duck Egg. Pork tail soup, pork cheeks, roasted cherry tomato, cucumber, sweet onion, scallion, yuzu. A cute play off the Korean cold noodle... It works better in the summer heat when God isn't taking a long ass beer piss all over us for the last month. But this was still a refreshing bowl of noodle soup even at night. The pork cheeks were a bit salty and crispy and offset the rest of the ingredients in the bowl wonderfully. PS- get the duck egg instead of the chicken egg... But a salted duck egg woulda worked even better.
Y'all gotta stop by here at least once if you want to be a hipster and experience what the dynamic duo can whip up in this tiny kitchen... A dish or two may surprise you and keep you coming back for more.
Almost forgot the most important thing... It's BYOB. Hipsters love that and so will you.
1660 McLendon Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
(404) 371-0889
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