The room isn't all that different from your neighborhood Japanese, done in comforting shades of brown made a tad more elegant by a pair of vertical rock gardens composed of black and white pebbles pinned behind sheets of Plexiglas, and overhanging boughs that spread tiny bamboo lamps across the ceiling. We sized up our fellow diners without much success: a few obvious tourists, a few apparent connoisseurs, none particularly wealthy looking, and three tables where customers were celebrating birthdays, punctuating the evening with loud choruses of "Happy Birthday" as a single lit candle arrived, poked in a bowl of... More >>>