Inakaya

Inakaya is an authentic Japanese robatayaki restaurant located in the New York Times building in the heart of Times Square. The robatayaki is theatre where everything feels larger than life, from the kimono and happi coat style uniforms, to the calligraphy menu, massive grill counter with a myriad display of food, the paddles used by the yakikata ("grill-persons" is the literal translation), to shuttle dishes, and even a cold beer, to diners at their front row seat. Kneeling on their haunches in the center of the room, the yakikata’s cook your order, arrange it on plates and then thrust it across that wide counter to diners, using sturdy wooden paddles a couple of meters long.