New Pasadena Restaurant: Gyu-Kaku

I had dinner tonight at Gyu-Kaku, a Japanese BBQ that just opened up a location in Old Pas a couple weeks ago (it's right next to Buca). Brian Limeketkai and I saw this while we were trying to find a parking spot before figuring out where we would eat dinner. Although it's a bit on the expensive side, the food at this restaurant is fucking awesome.

Normally, reservations are needed for Friday night, but we managed to sneak by with just a 30 minute wait. (A pair who came about 10-15 minutes after we did were seated about 45 minutes after us.)

This is a yakiniku restaurant. There is a charcoal grill at the table, and one cooks one's meat there. Most of the dishes have 3.5 ounces of scrumptious meat (one can order non-meat dishes if one wants to, but let's ignore that without loss of generality), but a couple have 5 ounces, so one can draw a reasonable analogy to tapas here. I suppose the sharing doesn't really occur here, but there's no reason it can't.

Also, Lemming should be able to join us without dying. (There are very few anti-Tim menu items, and we should all be ordering proper meat dishes anyway.)

My stomach is very happy right now.