Small plates.
Long evenings.

The roomForty seats and no reservations. Walk in. If there's a wait, there's a standing shelf by the door and a highball to go with it.
The counterEight seats, one omakase, Thursday to Saturday at 6:00 and 8:30. Booked by phone, and it fills.
The counter

Eight seats, twelve courses, one price.

$95 per person
twelve courses
about two hours

Thursday to Saturday the counter runs a set omakase from the same grill and the same fish case as the room. It isn't a longer version of the menu. It's what the cook wants to make that week, cooked a foot in front of you, in the order it wants to be eaten. No choices, and no substitutions except for allergies, which we'll ask about when you book.

Nights
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Seatings
6:00 and 8:30. Please arrive ten minutes early; the first course goes out to everyone at once.
Book
By phone, up to four weeks out. (555) 555-0147, 2 to 5 any day we're open.
Deposit
$25 a seat when you book, taken off the bill on the night. Cancel 48 hours ahead and it comes back to you.
Drinks
From the list, or a five-pour sake pairing for $48.
Five cuts of sashimi on a black stoneware plate, seen from above

This week changes Tuesday

  1. Chawanmushi, crab, ginkgo
  2. Sashimi, three cuts
  3. Oyster, yuzu, shiso
  4. Kawa skewer, salt
  5. Tsukune, cured yolk
  6. Hamachi collar, daikon
  7. Nasu dengaku
  8. Miso black cod
  9. Duck breast, sansho, scallion
  10. Hand roll, toro, negi
  11. Kake udon, the small bowl
  12. Hojicha ice cream, black sugar
Drinks

Six sakes, on purpose.

The list is six bottles long because we would rather pour six we can tell you about than forty we can't. It changes a few times a year, usually when a brewer we like has something new. Highballs are built to a ratio, poured over one clear cube, and taste better than they have any right to.

Sake by the glass and bottle
SakeGlassBottle
TsukiyoJunmai. Dry, rice-forward, easy. The house pour, and what most of us drink after service.1158
HakuroJunmai ginjo. Melon and white flowers. Good with the raw list.1368
KawasemiJunmai daiginjo. Quiet, clean, expensive for a reason. Order it with the sashimi, not the skewers.1896
SumibiKimoto. Savoury and a little smoky. The one to warm, and the one for the grill.1262
AokazeYamahai. Earthy, a bit wild, divides the room. We like it.1474
FuyugeshikiNigori. Cloudy and gently sweet. Have it last, with the ice cream or instead of it.1052

Glass 120 ml, bottle 720 ml. House sake, hot or cold, by the 180 ml carafe, 14.

Highballs

  • Whisky highball12
  • Yuzu shochu soda11
  • Umeshu soda11
  • Lemon sour10
  • Oolong hai10

Beer & other

  • Draft lager, 400 ml8
  • Black lager, bottle9
  • Yuzu soda, no alcohol6
  • Hojicha, pot for two7
Sake bottles and a small ceramic cup on a black lacquer tray
The room

A print shop,
mostly left alone.

The building ran letterpress and offset from 1952 until 2016. We kept the concrete floor, the clerestory windows, the type cabinets along the back wall, and the smell of ink in the stairwell, which we have given up trying to remove. Forty seats: a line of two-tops down the brick, one long communal table cut from the old paper-stock shelving, and the counter under the pendants at the back.

It's loud in a good way after eight. If you want quiet, come at half five, or sit at the counter on a Tuesday, when it's just a bar.

The dining room at Koji: dark wood, brick, and paper lanterns in a former print shop
A folded noren curtain and a hand-brushed wooden sign at the door
Hours & visit

Come at half five,
or come at ten.

Hours the room

Tue – Thu5:30 – 10:30
Fri – Sat5:30 – 11:30
Sunday5:00 – 10:00
MondayClosed

Kitchen closes half an hour before the room. Counter seatings Thu – Sat at 6:00 and 8:30.

Find us

31 Ledger Street
Portside
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The old print shop with the red noren. Bike racks out front, and the Ledger Street lot is free after six.

Reservations

The room doesn't take them. Walk in. If there's a wait we'll take your name and pour you something at the standing shelf by the door. Waits run twenty to forty minutes on Fridays and Saturdays after seven.

The counter is reservations only. Call (555) 555-0147 between 2 and 5, or write to counter@koji.example.

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