Looking for Jun-ichi san formerly of Sushi Ryo and IZAYOI downtown

[Jerome]

So Izayoi closed - is now (or will be ) little tokyo branch of ShinSenGumi.
Great.

ANyone have any clue as to where the IZAYOI folks (like junichi-san) went or what he (or they) are doing?

TiA.

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Izayoi
132 S Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

[Jerome]

bumping this up. come on folks - any ideas?
anyone know anything?

[kevin]

nope. but i still know that shibucho on beverly is still pretty damned good, if you haven't visited recently.

[Jerome]

yes i still like it. But they don't have the izakaya dishes i love at Izayoi.

Looked up their facebook page, and they say they will post there when they find a place. Which is GREAT.

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Izayoi
132 S Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012

[kevin]

cool, i'll have to check it out too.

though shibucho (and i know you may be against this), also makes a mean eggplant parmeggiano.

thanks for the heads up.

i like to use Yakitoriya on Sawtelle as an almost makeshift izakaya, the right hand side of the menu has a collection of dishes that are not the eponymous skewers that go great with beers or sake.

and i really bincho in redondo, but sadly it's pretty far away. as another hound mentioned it always seems like it's three steps from closing, sadly, and the fact that when it's closed in the daytime, since there is no sign there, it looks like it is permanently closed.

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Yakitoriya
11301 W Olympic Blvd Ste 101, Los Angeles, CA 90064

[ns1]

bincho is great but one of the most depressing restaurants I've been in. feels nothing like an izakaya.

they need a new location ASAP

[kevin]

if you mean rowdy, rambunctious, and raw, you are correct. It is definitely a little too staid at times. Though the dishes are great. Yeah, but you are definitely correct on the atmosphere. Though the food is very very very salty in my humble opinion at times, but I believe that's the way it should be.

some of my favorite dishes: those spicey fried chicken wings, japanese fried chicken, the shrimp dumplings, the rice salmon plum ball, and their miso eggplant.