"Hidden on the second level of the Weller Court shopping center in Little Tokyo, Torigoya isn’t LA's only yakitori specialist, but it is the one that feels most like stepping through a portal to Tokyo. Through a light haze of poultry-scented smoke you’ll find chefs with bandanas tied on their heads hovering over the charcoal grill like DJs on turntables, dates clinking mugs of matcha-flavored beer at the wooden bar, and waitresses schooling first-timers of the differences between “special heart” and “special special heart.” The best meals at Torigoya involve eating more chicken parts than you knew existed, drinking good sake, then finishing with a bowl of oyakodon that will put you in a blissful stupor for the rest of the night." - brant cox, garrett snyder, jess basser sanders, nikko duren, sylvio martins
