Gaja Moc

• Cuisine(s): Asian, Japanese
  Hours: Sun, Sat 11:30am-3pm, Sun 5pm-11pm, Tue-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm, Tue-Thu 6pm-11pm, Fri 6pm-0am, Sat 5:30pm-0am
  Price: $$
• Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, Discover
  Features: Family Style, Kid Friendly, Takeout
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch
• Alcohol: Beer/Wine
  Reservations: Accepted
  Parking: Lot Available

Description

Okonomiyaki may be the homeliest food in creation, a squat, unlovely, vaguely circular mess of batter, cabbage and egg, slicked with a tarry black substance made from ketchup and Worcestershire sauce, inscribed with mayonnaise, and dusted with curls of shaved dried bonito that shudder and writhe on top of the pancake like a thousand pencil shavings come to gruesome life. When you are presented with your first okonomiyaki, you don’t know whether to kill it or to eat it. GaJa puts a certain amount of effort into its identity as an izakaya, a snack-intensive Japanese pub, but it is probably the premier okonomiyaki specialist in town right now. They’ll cook okonomiyaki for you in the kitchen, but most diners opt to sizzle up their own on tabletop griddles, stirring and smashing and flipping and searing. With any luck, you'll have dinner.