Japoix - CLOSED

• Cuisine(s): Asian Fusion, French, Japanese
  Hours: Sun 12pm-9pm, Mon-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri 11am-11pm, Sat 12pm-11pm
  Price: $$$ $$$
• Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, cash
  Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch
• Alcohol: Full bar
  Reservations: Highly Recommended
  Parking: Lot Available, Valet, Validation Available

Description

Japoix describes its menu as French-Asian -- but not fusion (although it is, in a historic sense). It mingles sushi and sandwiches and salads with a short board of fish, chicken and duck plates. And then there are the hot rocks: smoldering granite stones that sear meats (and whatever else you want to toss on the surface) in a matter of seconds. The raw meats -- lamb sirloin, prime New York strip and filet, and Wagyu Kobe rib-eye -- are served with sliced pineapple, rings of peppers and a pickled salad, so an order makes a meal. The interior at this spot in the Beauvallon (which was opened in August, 2010, by Lawrence Yee) is a sleek, clean slate of garnet, espresso and ivory hues accented by splashy modern art -- all of it local -- with a community table (a holdover from Nine75) up front in the dining room, a narrow hallway of intimate deuces on the side, and a cosmopolitan back lounge, a perfect place to enjoy the two daily happy hours.