Hakubai
The Kitano New York
66 Park Ave. (E. 38th St.) 
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New York, NY 10016
212-885-7111 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
kitano.com/Dining/Hakubai
Hakubai Restaurant is one of GAYOT's 2013
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Cuisine
Open
Lunch & Dinner dailyFeatures
- Heart-healthy dishes
- Private room(s)
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Casual dressy
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 Hakubai Restaurant Review: This sparse dining room with 84 seats is flanked by three tatami rooms, where you can enjoy multi-course dinners spread over a leisurely evening. Sit at the traditional low table (but your legs dangle comfortably) and watch a kimono-dressed waitress serve an array of dishes chosen by the chef. A kaiseki dinner begins with an array of appetizers, each carefully conceived and part of the decoration in color and symmetry. Executive chef Yukihiro Sato is a master of the kaiseki tradition, which dates back more than 500 years in Japanese culinary history. It begins with house-made sesame-laced tofu that brings a cooling to the palate. Eel sushi follows, fat and luscious in its purity of flavor; a tender shrimp cake is sandwiched between tempura-fried matsutake mushrooms. Fried shrimp gets dressed in shiso leaf; a rich loin of duck rests on yam stems; and, finally, grilled dry sardine is drizzled with the sauce of an egg yolk. |
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