when i told J, ages ago now, that i had been disappointed by my trip to oh! taisho shortly after becoming an E. village resident, she was flabbergasted and indignant. “what do you mean, you didn’t love it?! you just didn’t order the right thing.” so a couple of weekends [...]
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Today, we yap about yakitori. What is yakitori, you ask? Well, to my knowledge (and I'm sure someone with better Japanese than I will correct me) it means grilled/fried skewers. Which means it can be interpreted very widely, no? In any case, Yakitori Taisho is a Japanese skewer place. I'd never had Japanese skewers before, and I was keen on trying them (you know how I adore skewered and
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yakitori-time! for my first yakitori experience, i had a plate of chicken - various part - on st. marks. the place was not-too-small, but with very loud music (not good for conversation). the yakitori was not bad, but not phenomenal either. i had regular chicken, chicken skin (i.e. skewered and girlled fat), chicken gizzards, chicken meatballs, and something unidentifiable. i also ordered a skewer of quail eggs (not as flavorful). overall, it was not a bad place, relatively cheap, but i think i’ll go yakitori hunting somewhere else before coming back to this place.
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Yakitori Taisho is one of those Japanese places on St. Marks that you end up going to after drinking all night because they’re open until after midnight. Oh! Taisho is that new space they’ve needed because the original is always packed.
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Financier, Crosby Connection, Pio Maya, and Yakitori Taisho
Last Wednesday I split a 12-slice cake from Financier with Nick in exchange for a guitar pedal. As gluttonous as I am, you might be surprised to learn that I've never split a full-sized cake before. Seriously. With my chef's knife in hand, I sliced that sucker down the middle like a doctor performing open heart surgery...really badly..
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Yakitori Taisho has been around ever since I was allowed to take the subway from Washington Heights and walk around Greenwich Village without a chaperone. It’s dingy, smoke-filled and smoke-stained but their grilled skewers, yakitori, are still the best on St. Mark’s Place.
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