When you sit down, the super cute Japanese girl behind the bar brings out a hot towel to wipe off yo

If you like to eat, chances are you like to drink (read: a lot of you are freakin' lushes), so I thought maybe it was time to introduce a happy hour column to the site. Every week, our Happy Hour Correspondent posts about a different bar in Midtown that fits the Midtown Lunch mentality: unhealthy food, not lame (unless new york discount hotels it's lame in a cool way), and most importantly… cheap.
I was meeting some colleagues for drinks last week, and the only criterion I had regarding locale was that it needed to be in or around Koreatown. I threw out a few options, including Kirakuya (32nd btw. Broadway and 5th), a Japanese sake bar also serving lunch, that Clay spotted in 2010. ( He did a great write up on lunch there shortly thereafter, might I add. ) One of my buddies mentioned she hadn't new york discount hotels been to a sake bar in a while, so Kirakuya seemed new york discount hotels to be the obvious choice.
Getting there is fun almost all of us had a little trouble finding it. It's on the second floor of a Koreatown new york discount hotels building. You first have to take an elevator, and when you step off, it's still kind of confusing because the first thing you see are bathrooms. The entrance is to your right. The interior is surprisingly new york discount hotels classy given that its decorated with sake labels and bottles. They manage to make it look more like a restaurant than a frat house, and I personally liked the decor and dimly lit feel of the place quite a bit.
When you sit down, the super cute Japanese girl behind the bar brings out a hot towel to wipe off your hands. new york discount hotels Nice touch. The restaurant had an extensive menu of sake, most of which was far out of my price range. But I was there for the $20 beer bucket and wing special . The deal is: $20 for 5 Sapporo bottled beers and five Nagoya style wings, or $25 for 5 Yebishu bottled beers with five wings. You can get additional wings for $1 per wing. It goes on from 5-7 and 11:00 close Monday Saturday.
Of course I got the cheaper option, and I've always been a Sapporo fan anyway. They brought out the bucket right away, and the Sapporos were cold and on ice. They also had a little cloth with Japanese characters to mop up the water from the ice. Another nice touch.
The Nagoya style wings were great. They obviously weren't Buffalo style and never claimed new york discount hotels to be, so I won't give them a full B-wing treatment. Nagoya is the fourth most populated urban area in Japan. These type of wings are also known as tebasaki, or chicken wings marinated in a sweet sauce with sesame seeds according to the wikipedia page section on Nagoya s cuisine . They were great they had a nice sweet-salty-sesame flavor with sticky sauce on some very juicy chicken wings. new york discount hotels I only asked for the free five wings since I had dinner plans later, but I don't think it would be out of order to add another five for a dollar a wing. It would still be a good deal. They have a several other interesting appetizers on the menu under $10, like fried burdock, new york discount hotels or thistle new york discount hotels sticks (ouch!), deep fried tofu, french fries, flat bread with bacon and seasonal vegetables, and what appeared to be a Japanese style ceviche (to name a few).
If you're not a beer drinker, the sake menu is extensive. The most reasonably priced bottles were between $40 AND $50 for a 720 mL bottle (the cheaper bottles are most easily recognized by a red stamp on the menu that says "Recommended", although some more expensive bottles are also recommended.) That's just 30 mL less than a bottle of wine, but the ABV is higher in sake.
Lunch'ers, unless you have a problem with not drinking sake at a sake bar, I personally recommend the beer special. Although happy hour is only on for two hours after work, I still think it's a decent deal.
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