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328 E. Sixth St. New York, NY 10003

212-673-3984

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Marlon Brando's Last Meal
Award Winner 2007

Cuisine(s): Japanese

Hours: Tue-Sat 6pm-11:30pm, Sun 5pm-11pm

Price: $$$
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa

Features: Takeout, Delivery, Prix Fixe

Serving: Dinner, Late Night
Alcohol: Beer

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

Parking: No Parking

Description

While most East Village Japanese restaurants concentrate on either sushi or noodles, Chiyono presents home-style Japanese cooking, like your Nipponese mom would have made. That means a roster of croquettes, of which the best heaps potatoes on a pair of splayed fresh sardines, then deep-fries them. Other domestic delicacies include seafood-topped salads, thin-skinned pork and vegetarian gyozas, and the nearly unpronounceable pirikara-konnyaku;hunks of gray and nearly flavorless devil's tongue starch dressed with soy sauce, chile flakes, and shaved bonito. Seating is mainly family style at a large communal table, and a chalkboard menu details the many daily specials.

2007 | Marlon Brando's Last Meal

In Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, Brando tells Maria Schneider to "Go get the butter" as a prelude to anal sex. Prodding us to wonder: What does Brando deserve How about a mouthful of raw squid at Chiyono, which tastes like--shamelessly quoting ourselves --"the gooey aftermath of a blowjob." This culinary inversion turns out to be particularly apropos since, as rumor has it, the Schneider character in the director's original script was intended to be a boy rather than a girl. More »

Tonguing the Devil

By Robert Sietsema | Tue, April 24, 2007

"This really isn't a sushi place," said Gretchen, somewhat balefully, as she ran her eye over the menu at Chiyono. We'd arrived at the narrow dining room—where most of the seating is at a canoe-shaped communal table—by running the gantlet of India... More »

Dinner Menu

Appetizers

$3.75

Edamame
boiled young soybeans

$4.25

Hijiki
simmered black seaweed and vegetable.

$4.50

Oshitashi
boiled seasonal vegetable with dashi sauce – summer only.

$4.75

Kimpira
sautéed burdock root and carrot.

$4.50

Pirikara-konnyaku
yam with hot soy sauce.

$5.25

Nasu-ageni
fried eggplant with japanese soup stock – summer only.

$5.50

Renkon-ume-ae
lotus root with pickled plum and shiso leaf.

$5.25

Goma-ae
boiled seasonal vegetable with special sesame sauce.

$5.50

Dashimaki-tamago
japanese style egg omelet.

$6.95

Kaku-ni
slow simmered belly pork with soy sauce.

Soups

$2.75

Tofu & Seaweed Miso

$4.95

Gobo Soup
burdock root and potato potage.

$3.25

Vegetable Miso
seasonal vegetable, regular or vegetarian soup stock

Salads

$5.50

Tofu Salad
tofu seaweed, seasonal green with special dressing.

$4.75

Potato Salad
potato cucumber, onion, carrot with mustard mayo.

$6.50

Tomato Salad
tomato, onion, shiso leaf with dressing – summer only.

$7.50

Seaweed Salad
assorted seaweed with miso dressing

$8.50

Soba Salad
buckwheat noodles, seasonal green with special dressing

$8.50

Chef’s Special Avocado Salad
with hijiki and onion with wasabi dressing

Entrées

$11.25

Tara-umauma
cod dipped in seasoned egg, then sautéed

$12.25

Saikyo-yak
grilled cod marinated in miso

$11.75

Salmon Yuan-yaki
grilled salmon marinated in yuzu and soy sauce

$8.95

Saba- Shioyaki
grilled mackerel

$9.50

Kaki-furai
fried oysters – winter only

$9.75

Iwashi-tempura-maki
sardine tempura with plum and shiso leaf

$9.75

Iwashi-croquette
deep fried potato stuffed with sardine

$8.95

Tori-kara-age
deep fried chicken with special sauce

$9.75

Chicken Cream-croquette
deep fried potato stuffed with chicken

$9.75

Menchi-katsu
deep fried ground pork and vegetable

$9.25

Hijiki-croquette
deep fried potato stuffed with hijiki and vegetable

$10.50

Kaku-ni
slow simmered belly pork with soy sauce.

Omakase-course

$30.00

Today’s Chef’s Special Course
includes our choice of appetizer, entrée, soup, and dessert.

Rice

$1.50

Steamed White Rice

$2.00

Organic Brown Rice

$3.50

Today’s Special Rice

Gyoza
Pan-fried Or Boiled

6 Pcs $4.75

Pork
pork, garlic chives, cabbage.

6 Pcs $5.25

Shrimp
shrimp, shiitake mushroom, cabbage, tofu.

6 Pcs $4.75

Vegetable
tofu, shiitake mushroom, cabbage, hijiki.

Dessert

$5.50

Goma Purin
sesame pudding

$5.25

Chiffon Cake
ask about todays flavour

$4.75

Banana Roll
banana roll beans spring roll

$5.90

Kisetsu No Dessert
sessonal special

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Chiyono

328 E. Sixth St. New York, NY 10003

212-673-3984

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2007 | Marlon Brando's Last Meal

Tonguing the Devil

By Robert Sietsema | Tue, April 24, 2007

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