Aburiya Toranoko

• Cuisine(s): Gastro Pub, Japanese
  Hours: Open daily 5 p.m.-close on demand
  Price: $$$ $$$
• Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
  Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout
  Serving: Dinner
• Alcohol: Full bar
  Reservations: Accepted
  Parking: Lot Available, Meters, Street

Description

The restaurant, next door to Lazy Ox Canteen and owned by the same guy, Michael Cardenas, is an attempt to bridge the elbows-on-the-table informality of a Japanese izakaya with the high-decibel sheen of a high-end gastropub. And it pretty much works: long communal tables and chandeliers, graffiti murals and slick paintings, a fairly hip, inexpensive wine list and a fetishistic list of oddball beers and sakes that are probably better suited to the small-plates cuisine.