When Gaku and Christy Shibata opened Yopparai on the Lower East Side a couple of years back, they quickly garnered a legion of serious sake fans, who’d drop in to the intimate space for sips of rare ...

We love the kotatsu tables at this Japanese restaurant on the LES—it's a lovely date-night move where you can sip sake, eat some sashimi or agedeshi tofu, and play footsy under the table. There are a ...