Order the CHICKEN NANBAN to add to your yakitori experience. It's boneless chicken battered and deep fried, topped with an egg-potato salad with a vinegar. This dish is an amazing appetizer with texture and great balanced acid. If you
like TAKO WASABI (raw octopus and wasabi),...
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Order the CHICKEN NANBAN to add to your yakitori experience. It's boneless chicken battered and deep fried, topped with an egg-potato salad with a vinegar. This dish is an amazing appetizer with texture and great balanced acid. If you
like TAKO WASABI (raw octopus and wasabi), this doesn't disappoint. The wasabi reads more refreshing than intense chili heat. I recommend shishito peppers if you're looking for a spicy gamble. I've ordered the agedashi tofu and kaarage on other occasions. They are good, but the NANBAN and TAKO WASABI are high quality and harder to find.
On this night, we couldn't go crazy on ordering all the chicken skin skewers because they were low supply. (Only 1 skin skewer per table on this specific night.) If deciding between which chicken hearts, I enjoyed the SP and SPSP more than the regular ones. SP=special? SPSP=special^2? I prefer tomato>zucchini>shiitake. Of the sauces, yuzu is my favorite for its brightness. I think it pairs well with all the skewers. A little bit goes a long way. I tend to order one yuzu sauce to share for a table of 3 people.
I always recommend calling the restaurant to make reservations. For a 6:15pm weekday reservation, I called the same day (@ 5pm) to get a table for 3; I was lucky. On other occasions, I've booked a week in advance for a weekend dinner reservation. I've been here a total of 4 times in 18 months. The best time to call is during dinner service or an hour before the restaurant opens.
If deciding between counter or table seating, the counter is worth doing at least once.
My brother likes to write his name down when he visits Torigoya. He comes later in the evening when the 5- or 10-skewer sets are sold out and it's a la carte ordering. The wait is <30 minutes to be seated, but less selection.
As for parking, I've been lucky to find an open street metered spot and to come back to my car unscathed. Street parking is safe in my opinion.