Kemuri Tatsu-ya

Kemuri Tatsu-ya sits on East 2nd Street and blends Japanese izakaya cooking with Texas barbecue technique, smoking meats low and slow before finishing them izakaya-style with yakitori skewers and small plates. The restaurant has earned a Michelin Bib Gourmand for this hybrid approach, using smoke as the connective thread across the menu. The public site does not spell out a sake list, but the skewer-and-small-plate izakaya format is the kind of menu typically paired with a rotating sake and shochu selection.