Yopparai Menu Prices

Japanese izakaya serving small plates, sashimi & many sakes at a chef’s bar in a modern, snug space.

Yopparai is an intimate Japanese sake bar and restaurant featuring a wide variety of sake along with traditional foods and snacks that pair well with sake. With high-quality ingredients selected daily by our chefs, Yopparai offers fresh sashimi, seasonal vegetables, and an assortment of fish and meats prepared on our open grill. Our specialties include homemade tsukune meatballs, fresh tofu, and Tokyo style oden.

With only 30 seats, we aim to bring a personal sake tasting experience to each of our guests. Allow one of our licensed sommeliers to help you select a special sake, served at the ideal temperature, in our house collection of traditional Japanese glassware.

  4.5 – 374 reviews  $$$ • Japanese restaurant

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Menu

Menu
Salads and Vegetables
Edamame
Edamame beans freshly steamed in a cypress box
$7.00
Oshinko
Seasonal vegetables pickled in rice bran
$8.00
Tomato Salad
Ripe tomato topped with diced onions and served with dashi dressing
$9.00
Daikon Salad
Shredded daikon radish with umeboshi plum dressing on a bed of watercress
$10.00
Kaisen Sunomomo
Assorted seafood (squid, king crab, surf clam, scallops, etc.) and seaweed in vinegar dressing
$15.00
Appetizers
Motsu Nikomi
Traditional miso tripe stew
$9.00
Homemade Tofu
Served chilled with scallion, bonito flakes, and seaweed powder
$10.00
Chawanmushi *seasonal*
Savory steamed egg custard with salmon roe and shrimp (summer) or chicken and crab (winter)
$10.00
Karaage
Fried chicken marinated in rice malt and yuzu
$12.00
Kakuni
Berkshire pork belly simmered in sweet dashi broth
$14.00
Washu Gyu Tataki
Lightly seared Washu beef with ponzu dressing
$18.00
Hoba Miso
Miso, washu beef & wild vegetables cooked on a hoba leaf (contain cashew nuts)
$20.00
Homemade Yudoufu
Hot homemade tofu cooked with watercress and shiitake in a wooden box
$22.00
Oden (Traditional Japanese soul foods simmered in dashi broth)
Hanpen (grated fish and yam made into a fluffy cake) $4.00
Satsuma Age (fried fish cake) $4.00
Konnyaku (jelly-like yam cake) $4.00
Tamago (boiled egg) $4.00
Mochi Kinchaku (tofu skin stuffed with sticky rice cake) $5.00
Daikon Radish $6.00
Assortment of 3 items $12.00
Assortment of 5 items $18.00
Chinmi (Rare snacks and tastes that pair well with sake)
Homemade Natto
Homemade fermented soy beans
$6.00
Umeboshi
Pickled plum
$6.00
Wasabi Zuke
Chopped wasabi with sake lees
$8.00
Shiokara
Squid sashimi with salted squid organs
$8.00
Ika no Uni Ae
Squid sashimi mixed with sea urchin
$10.00
Mentaiko
Lightly smoked spicy marinated cod roe
$14.00
Grilled Dishes
Sunagimo Skewer
Chicken gizzards
$7.00
Jidori (Chicken) Liver Skewer
Dipped in yakitori sauce
$7.00
Torikushi Skewer
Chicken thigh, choice of yakitori sauce or salt
$7.00
Hotate Butter
Scallop grilled with butter sauce
$11.00
Butakushi Skewer
Kurobuta fatty pork belly with shio koji
$12.00
Tsukune
Signature chicken meatball, topped with raw egg yolk
$12.00
Anago Shirayaki
Grilled sea eel
$14.00
Ika Ichiyazuke
Grilled whole marinated squid
$14.00
Yasai Yaki
Mixed seasonal vegetables grilled with soy sauce
$14.00
Gyutan
Thin-cut Washu beef tongue prepared in Sendai style
$16.00
Miso Black Cod
Grilled black cod marinated in spicy garlic miso
$16.00
Kamoyaki
Duck breast grilled on a hot plate, served with sweet soba broth
$18.00
Washu Gyu Teppanyaki
Washu beef grilled on a hot plate
$22.00
Simmered Dishes
Nira Tama Tofu
Silky tofu and chives simmered in dashi broth with soft scrambled egg
$12.00
Kinoko Toban Yaki
Mixed Japanese mushrooms with sake lees, miso, and butter (contain cashew nuts)
$14.00
Ebi Shinjo
Shrimp and cod made into a fluffy dumpling, served in light dashi sauce
$14.00
Jidori Tamago Toji
Free-range chicken and tsukune simmered in dashi broth with soft scrambled egg
$16.00
Kurobuta Tamago Toji
Kurobuta pork belly simmered in dashi broth with soft scrambled egg
$18.00
Anago Yanagawa
Sea eel simmered in dashi broth with soft scrambled egg
$20.00
Rice and Noodles
Yaki Onigiri – Soy Sauce or Miso $6.00
Yaki Onigiri – Uni or Mentaiko $10.00
Isobe Yaki Mochi
Homemade pounded glutinous rice cake grilled with soy sauce
$6.00
Inaniwa Udon (seasonal)
Thin udon noodles from Akita prefecture, served chilled with sesame sauce
$14.00
Sansai Serio Meshi
Blend of sticky rice with soy sauce and sake steamed with mountain vegetables in a wooden box
$14.00
Shake Ikura Seiro Meshi
Blend of sticky rice with soy sauce and sake steamed with salmon flakes and salmon roe in a wooden box
$22.00
Kani Seiro Meshi
Blend of sticky rice with soy sauce and sake steamed with snow crab and tobiko in a wooden box
$22.00
Anago Seiro Meshi
Blend of sticky rice with soy sauce and sake steamed with sea eel in a wooden box
$22.00
Sashimi
Assorted Sashimi $32.00
Assorted Sashimi plus Uni or Ikura $44.00
Assorted Sashimi plus Uni and Ikura $56.00
Bluefin Tuna Sampler
Two pieces each of lean, marinated, medium-fatty, and fatty tuna
$56.00
Bluefin A la Carte – Akami (lean cut, 3 pieces) $16.00
Bluefin A la Carte – Zuke (marinated in dashi soy sauce, 3 pieces) $20.00
Bluefin A la Carte – Chutoro (medium fatty, 3 pieces) $28.00
Bluefin A la Carte – Otoro (super fatty, 3 pieces) $32.00
Ikura
Marinated salmon roe served with nori
$18.00
Uni
Sea urchin served with nori
$20.00
Slimy Bomb
Homemade natto with mixed Japanese veggies & fish
$16.00
Negitoro Taku
Tuna tartare with Tokyo spring onion and pickled daikon
$20.00
Hamachi Tataki
Seared yellowtail in ponzu dressing
$20.00

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Order and Reservations

Reservations: opentable.com

Contact Yopparai

Address: 49 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002

Phone: (212) 777-7253

Website: http://www.yopparainyc.com/

Hours

Tuesday 5:30–11PM
Wednesday 5:30–11PM
Thursday 5:30–11PM
Friday 5:30PM–12AM
Saturday 5:30PM–12AM
Sunday 5:30–11PM
Monday 5:30–11PM

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