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1104 Lincoln Road Miami Beach, FL 33139

305-695-8383

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Miami New Times
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Best Sushi Happy Hour
Award Winner 2011

Cuisine(s): Japanese, Sushi

Hours: Mon-Thu 12pm-11pm, Fri-Sat 12pm-12am, Sun 12pm-10:30pm

Price: $$$

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
Attire: Casual

Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Delivery, Private Party, Catering, Wheelchair Accessible, Kid Friendly, Vegetarian Friendly, Business Dining

Serving: Dinner, Late Night, Lunch

Alcohol: Full bar
Reservations: Accepted, Highly Recommended

Parking: Garage, Meters

Description

It's hard not to love a martini, especially when it's nine bucks and consists of freshly puréed lychee, Grey Goose, and a twist of watermelon liqueur. Slap on a weekday happy hour (5 to 7 p.m.), when that drink gets discounted to $4, and you've got Doraku: a casually stylish Buddha/anime-themed Japanese eatery at the Alton Road entrance of Lincoln Road Mall. The menu deserves as much acclaim as the lovely libations. Food prices are a bit lower than those at most SoBe sushi bars. Dishes are generally more creative and tastier. Especially recommended is ahi poke ($11.50), with ahi tuna, red onions, and sea kelp drenched in a beautifully balanced sauce; decadent steamed miso mussels ($10.50); crisp Chilean sea bass garnished with cilantro ($14.95), as well as lobster tempura ($12.95), both lightly battered and near-greaselessly fried; and a coconut shrimp roll ($7.50), a textbook example of how to use tempura flakes with savory subtlety. There's also an unusually large selection of vegetarian items plus an extensive list of boutique sakes.

2011 | Best Sushi Happy Hour

When your wallet is dwindling toward empty, the most luxurious spots start to feel like deserts full of shimmering, inviting oases that evaporate the second you try to parch your thirst. Take Lincoln Road: You can spend all day staring into hip restaurants packed with beautiful people scarfing sumptuous dinners, but if you have only 20 bucks to drop, you might as well be stranded in the Sahara. Until you stumble into Doraku. Happen into the sushi joint between 5 and 7 p.m. seven days a week,... More »
2007 | Best Salad

Sally seeks Doraku for the sake of the sake, or sometimes simply to sip saketinis. She salivates over the sensational sushi, sashimi, and seafood specialties -- salmon, scallops, snapper, shrimp, sea bass, surf clams, smelt fish roe, and so on. She sighs when skimming over the salad section -- should she snare the seared salmon salad soaked with yuzu, seaweed salad with sesame vinaigrette, seasoned squid and spring greens squired with spicy peanut sauce, or seafood salad with salmon,... More »
2003 | BEST BLOODY MARY

"It's not just for breakfast anymore" chimed the old Florida orange juice slogan. "It's not just for brunch anymore" could be said about the Bloody Mary. Long considered the perfect morning-after cure for night-before-induced ills, the tomato juice-vodka concoction -- often embellished with horseradish, celery salt, Worcestershire sauce, and stomach-turning substances such as Clamato -- is now commonly imbibed at all hours of the day. Doraku's extensive drink menu (including more than twenty... More »

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Doraku Happy Hour: Enjoy $4 Drinks & Sushi, $3 Beer & Wine

By Laine Doss | Mon, May 16, 2011

Miami is one expensive city. It's easy to drop a Benjamin for a dinner in this town if you're not careful. But we still need to get our food and drink on. That's what Happy Hours are made for and... More »
Kanpai!

By Pamela Robin Brandt | Thu, August 23, 2007

Cruising through the crowd at Doraku during a recent Friday happy hour, a diner who had not been to this SoBe sushi spot since it opened in 2000 wouldn't have even a hint it was the same space. A room that began life as a pop-art hallucination — a... More »
Who New, Doraku

By Pamela Robin Brandt | Thu, October 31, 2002

If you look very hard high up on the ceiling of Doraku, a sophisticated spot with minimalist mode-of-the-moment décor (relying largely on the natural elegance of contrasting polished woods), like a Terence Conran-type take on a traditional Japanes... More »

Main Menu

Salad

$10.00

Tuna Avocado Salad
tuna, avocado, fried wonton, cherry tomato and spring mix topped with wasabi yuzu dressing

$11.00

Doraku Chicken Salad
local spring mix, seasoned chicken, steamed local bean sprouts, button and king oyster mushrooms, boiled egg, cherry tomato topped with micro greens and served with homemade sweet spicy vinaigrette

$12.00

Spicy Crispy Duck Salad
shredded slow roasted peking-style duck with seasonal mesculin greens, mandarin orange, fried wonton and grape tomato finished with spicy miso dressing

$6.50

Sweet Onion Salmon Salad
thinly sliced sweet onion, salmon, bonito flakes, sesame oil, cherry tomato, kaiware sprout with a plum ponzu dressing

Cold Dishes

$14.50

Hiramasa Tiridito
thinly sliced yellowtail kingfish marinated in yuzu juice and soy, seared with heated olive oil and garnished with ginger, garlic, jalapeno and crispy garlic chips

$12.00

New Style Tuna Tataki
tuna sashimi on julienne daikon radish and sweet onion with seasoned wakame, crispy garlic chips and garlic aioli

$16.50

Double Happiness
tuna, salmon, scallop, ika, shrimp, crab meat and kaiware sprout wrapped with nori and thinly sliced cucumber topped with garlic aioli, orange tobiko and ponzu sauce

$12.00

Tuna Avocado Tartar
minced tuna mixed with orange tobiko and takuan over mashed avocado served with sweet spicy chili soy sauce topped with black caviar and scallion

$12.50

Seared Tuna With Asian Salsa
ahi tuna takaki with doraku’s signature sauce –mango, kaiware, cherry tomato, red onion and ponzu sauce

Hot Dishes

$13.75

Pan Fired Salmon
ponzu reduction scottish salmon fired in a sweet citrus ponzu reduction accompanied by grilled asparagus and king oyster mushroom topped with local micro greens

$15.00

Chilean Seabass Nanbanzuke
crispy chilean seabass marinated in yuzu chili ponzu served with quick pickled vegetables and topped with cilantro

Hamachi $10.00
Salmon $8.75

Grilled Fish Kama
cheeks lightly grilled with hawaiian sea salt and served with grated chili daikon radish and ponzu

$14.25

Miso Teriyaki Chilean Sea Bass
chilean seas bass sauteed in sweet miso and teriyaki sauce topped with spinach

$13.25

Spicy Garlic Jumbo Shrimp
black tiger shrimp served over spring mix and tempura onion with a sweet chili soy and spicy garlic aioli

Doraku Specialty Rolls

$14.00

Emperor Roll
tuna, salmon, crab, shrimp, scallop and avocado rolled together then crusted in panko breadcrumbs and flash fried, served over a bed of spring mix and tempura sweet onion finished with special aioli sauce

$11.50

Spicy Geisha Roll
spicy tuna, shiso leaf, pickled radish, kaiware sprout and eel sauce rolled futomaki style

$13.75

Doraku Roll
lobster, shredded crab and cream cheese tempura fried topped with orange masago, black caviar and spicy aioli

$13.50

Red Dragon Roll
spicy tuna, shrimp tempura and avocado topped with eel, red tobiko, ao nori and spicy aioli

$12.50

Dragon Roll
shrimp tempura and avocado topped with eel, ao nori and eel sauce

$12.00

Spicy Lobster Roll
lobster tempura, avocado and cucumber topped with spicy mayo and chili sauce

Sushi + Sashimi

8 Pieces $21.50

Sushi Nigiri
maguro, sake, hamachi, hiramasa, ebi, tai, shimesaba, hotate

8 Pieces $18.50

Sashimi
2 maguro, 2 sake, 2 hamachi, 2 tai

6 Pieces $27.50

Sushi + Sashimi
6 pieces nigiri/ 6 pieces sashimi nigiri - maguro, sake, hamachi, tai, ebi, hiramasa sashimi - 2 maguro, 2 sake, 2 hamachi

12 Pieces $29.50

Sushi Nigiri Deluxe
maguro, sake, hamachi, ebi, tako, hiramasa, tai, hotate, uni, ikura, unagi, shimesaba

12 Pieces $25.50

Sashimi Deluxe
2 maguro, 2 sake, 2 hamachi, 2 tai, 2 tako and 2 hiramasa

Happy Endings Desserts

$6.50

Brownie Tempura
homemade brownie tempura topped with vanilla ice cream, strawberry puree and chocolate syrup

$6.50

Chocolate Truffle
warm chocolate truffle with a molten fudge center topped with vanilla ice cream, strawberry puree, and chocolate syrup

$4.50

Ice Cream
vanilla ice cream or green tea ice cream

$6.50

Banana Tempura
lightly battered bananas topped with vanilla ice cream, strawberry puree and chocolate syrup

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Doraku

1104 Lincoln Road Miami Beach, FL 33139

305-695-8383

Description

2011 | Best Sushi Happy Hour

2007 | Best Salad

2003 | BEST BLOODY MARY

Miami's Ten Best Sushi Bars: Hunting for Fresh Fish

By Lesley Elliott | Wed, April 18, 2012

Jelly Shot Test Kitchen's Fire-Breathing Dragon

By Lesley Elliott | Tue, July 19, 2011

Doraku Happy Hour: Enjoy $4 Drinks & Sushi, $3 Beer & Wine

By Laine Doss | Mon, May 16, 2011

Kanpai!

By Pamela Robin Brandt | Thu, August 23, 2007

Who New, Doraku

By Pamela Robin Brandt | Thu, October 31, 2002