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Izayoi: Come for the Food

By all kinds of yum   Nov 08, 2007

Ok, now that we have pinned down the very nature of what izakaya -- Japanese pubs serving beer, sake, and small bites -- are all about in this post, we can talk about Izayoi in Little Tokyo. For me, the izakaya experience is usually as much about vibe as it is about food and drink. Izayoi, with its cool 80s-modern interior, doesn't offer quite the besotted, festive atmosphere I associate with FULL REVIEW

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Izayoi: Yoi, This is So Good!

By Rainy Days and Sundays   May 10, 2007

There are many lunch options in Little Tokyo, but the most popular is probably the lunch "sets" at Sushi Gen. Patrons line up an hour before opening to get their famous sashimi plate, complete with all the fixins' (miso, seaweed salad, etc.). I can't remember the price, but it's really cheap. We stopped by Sushi Gen yesterday, but didn't have time to wait, so we opted to go to Izayoi instead. I'd heard that they, too, offer good lunch sets, so my bro-in-law J and coworker Jackie decided to check it out. J started with one order of kohada (Gizzard shad) sushi, then chose the sashimi lunch set. It had yellowtail, tuna, salmon, squid,... FULL REVIEW

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Izayoi

By Potatomato   Nov 27, 2006

Party season~ 7 of us went back to this sleek and modern izakaya Izayoi in Little Tokyo (see my old entry). FULL REVIEW

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Izayoi

By Potatomato   Aug 25, 2006

Back to Izayoi. Once again I got the Uni Chawanmushi (still very delicious) and Seafood cream croquette (cripsy and hot, yummy!). Jon ordered some sort of tofu thing (age tofu) but the dish that came taste more like Konjac or Dim sum's marinate Jelly fish to me. Gindara black cod marinated in sake/miso, good but the portion is too small. grilled rice ball plain rice, good for stomach filling. FULL REVIEW

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Izayoi

By Potatomato   Jul 06, 2006

A new izakaya opened! My friend recommended it so here we go: FULL REVIEW

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Nothing Says Romance Like Fried Shrimp Heads

By Erin's Kitchen   Feb 15, 2006

Having no Valentine's plans until about 4 p.m, yesterday, J and I decided to wing it, and kicked off our celebration with drinks at the Golden Gopher, a downtown bar with fabulous sidecars. We then headed up to Little Tokyo and found seats at the sushi bar within Izayoi, an izakaya (Japanese pub food) joint. The crowd was low-key, a handful of couples and larger groups of Japanese businessmen. We started with amberjack sushi, followed by a small bowl of plum-marinated shark fin and a plate of fried fish cakes. The fine ribbons of shark fin on top of sliced daikon were not my favorite, but the fish cakes delighted, filled with vegetables, lotus root, garlic, burdock and squid. FULL REVIEW

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Izayoi

By Eating LA   Jan 25, 2006

Izakaya, or Japanese pub snacks, have got to be one of the best food trends of the last year. They combine everything I like: savory little fishy bites, vegetables, decent prices and casual restaurants, with sake and beer to boot. This is really just a preview of Izayoi, since I'll definitely go back soon with more people to taste some different dishes. We just went for a bite before screening Graeme's suburban creepo tale Neighborhood Watch. Graeme was serving lumpia and chicken skewers afterwards so we just tried three dishes at Izayoi: shrimp dumplings, spinach salad with anchovy dressing and julienned potatoes and grilled mussels with garlic butter. FULL REVIEW

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Izayoi's Sashimi Orgy On A Plate

By Daily Gluttony   Aug 30, 2005

Look what you get for 24 bucks at Little Tokyo's Izayoi (f.k.a. Hollywood's Sushi Ryo): an artfully presented super FRESH-fest that includes toro (fatty tuna belly), hamachi (yellowtail), shiro maguro (albacore), sake (salmon), tai (red snapper), red salmon, conch, crab claw meat, ika (squid) and ama ebi (raw sweet shrimp). FULL REVIEW

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Freshman Orientation: Izayoi

By Daily Gluttony   Jul 11, 2005

I was a bit of a wallflower until this blogging thing started. Look at me now--I've got link buddies, comment friends, a whole wealth of people I communicate with who, until recently, were complete strangers. Why, I've even been doing some outside socializing as of late thanks to some encouragement from Sarah from The Delicious Life! Last month, a bunch of us food bloggers went in search of a Queen of Cuisine. This month, she told us to get out there and meet ourselves a freshman FULL REVIEW

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