Sake Bar By Zabb

CASH ONLY . Food was good and prices were reasonable. Only complaint is they add the tip on the bill regardless if theres 2 people within your party. So read the check and dont assume the tip is not included. Miscommunication with the server on his part. Our bill came out to $80+ but we only got sushi dinner($22), hamachi kama ($16), 1 cocktail ($10), foie gras roll ($20), and miso soup that would cost you less than $5. The check was handwritten so you cant see proper documentation and was not communicated about the tip, we over tipped them by $15-20. Overall food was good, service? Lacking.

Awesome small joint located downstairs from their address. Awesome decor and makes you feel like your back in Japan. This hidden gem helps satisfy your late night beer and food cravings. They serve sake, beer , sushi, ramen pasta and small plates like fried baby octopus and oysters and beef tongue. The staff is awesome and friendly. Only complaint would be more variety when ordering their sushi dinner platter. 12 pieces made up of 4 different fishes.

- Roast and Crispy pork - thinly sliced, the crispy pork is slightly crispy and pretty fatty, fortunately not too much of it. A sweet red sauce topped with sesame seed. Came with egg, cucumbers, and sausage. Not a huge fan of this dish, but might still come back and try something else

The food here isn't cooked... it's crafted by extremely talented chefs and its delicious. More importantly the owners and staff are fantastic people. One of my favorite places in all of New York.

T'was a soggy and snowy Monday evening... the night after Valentine's Day to be exact. Plans to come here this very night had been made in the weeks previous, and the weather seemed hardly the exigency for us to jettison this night's arrangements in lieu of either 1) a rain check or 2) perhaps even something a little more domestic. Upon arrival, myself and my dinner companion for the night noticed that we effectively had the entire place to ourselves; we were seated in (what I assume to be a place of honor) the small nook by the window... we were able to watch the snowflakes fall, and either disintegrate into oblivion upon touching the fiery hot lights adorning this place... or watch them form and amalgamate into something greater than itself (kinda like Voltron) upon joinder with their fellow snowflakes. The interior brought about pangs of nostalgia for time spent (once upon a time) in the Land of the Rising Sun (i.e. Nihon, Nippon, Japan). Basically, the dining room was a textbook utilitarian clinic on how to get maximum mileage out of minimum space (it doesn't hurt that AZNs are typically smaller framed, donged, titted, bootied, and bellied compared to compadres hailing from other more western parts of the globe... and I still think we look damn good... hell, maybe even better). The Japanese homeland would have been proud, and this space would fit in perfectly as an izakaya/sobya/ramenya or any other kind of "-ya" ("shop" and or "food kiosk/vendor space"... in the Japanese... depending on contextual placement) in the cramped byways of Neo-Tokyo. The makeshift (in appearance) menu, on plain white paper, with legible but not impeccable handwritten print, and finished off with a laminated coating, was certainly an eye-opening and risky initial gambit; at any rate, it was one that, both myself and my dinner companion for the evening, found quite charming. Besides, appearances aren't everything (90% of the battle for sure, but not errthang). That being said, the menu items, in retrospect, seemed to be pleasantly out of place when viewed in tandem/relation with the no-frills interior and bare-bones menu (as far as cosmetics are concerned, anyway...) of this spot. Sure, some izakaya staples were seen prominently mentioned on the menu (i.e. takoyaki (battered octo balls), deep fried "ika" (squid), yakisoba (pan fried noodles), and karaage chicken... to name a few; (un)fortunately, yours truly couldn't even venture a sample of most of these enumerated items, as the current temporal placement on the Liturgical calendar "requires" of me to make certain forbearance as to my lifestyle... thusly, consumption of certain products (booze, junk food, fried food), usage of certain applications (IG, FB, Twitter, Snapchat, and some of Yelp's more "social" aspects), and the oblation of some other particular activities that make me happy (at least in the short term) have been eliminated from my daily regimen (if only until the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior... uncomfortable yet?!?). Have no fear, yours truly should be back to his (relatively) debauched self come March 27th of 2016 A.D. So what did we eat? Certainly dishes that, as far as visual presentation is concerned, would be expected to be served at a classic sushi bar. With that in mind, we sampled and shared three dishes, two seemingly more "classic" offerings, and one more avant garde and fusion in nature. All in all, this place was quite a delightful find. And I need to give daps to the wayy out of place song selection (which would go terrifically as a soundtrack to the recently released "Deadpool"); lots of Queen (back to back songs?! I ain't complaining), some Journey, and the dude who sang the soundtrack for "Karate Kid"?!?!? Huge fan of such a weird song selection, and I'm even more a fan of this (kinda) weird place. I'll definitely be back, maybe a return visit is in order when the weather gets better...

I went for the spicy miso ramen. The bowl was pretty big and the favor I was ok with. The pasta selection they have looked interesting. I would come back here because it's not too far for me for a bowl of ramen.

Food is fab, the staff is great and friendly. Happy hour is good. A little pricy, but the location and everything else are worth it.

The food was great and the prices weren't bad. My only complaint is that i left smelling like fried food. Also, it is cash only.