NYC Tastes

I don't know about you but I loooove me some yakitori! I've been to a bunch of izakayas in the city from the disappointing new Mr. Jones to the basement hidden Hagi and the utterly delicious Aburiya Kinnosuke; but never to the jam packed Yakitori Taisho. Why? Because it’s always too jam packed!! So last week we planned out our plan of attack and showed up right around 6:00pm. Luckily we able to walk right in and get a seat at the bar. We got a pitcher of Sapporo and started in on some tasty plates of food. First up- some yakitori of course! We decided to go for one of the platters filled with skewers of grilled shrimp, beef, chicken meatballs, regular chicken and scallion all on a bed of cabbage. Each skewer was simply fantastic- moist meat with a slightly smoky char from the grill. I think my favorites were the regular chicken and the scallions. The scallions had been doused pretty liberally with salt and the crunchy kernels on the crisp skin was like eating some sort of fan...