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  • noun A technique in Japanese cuisine where food is grilled over charcoal in front of the customer.

Etymologies

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Japanese

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Examples

  • The restaurant is classified as a robatayaki, a kind of eatery dedicated to the robata grill (traditionally fired with charcoal, but in New York, we settle for gas) and also known for being loud.

    Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories 2009

  • The restaurant is classified as a robatayaki, a kind of eatery dedicated to the robata grill (traditionally fired with charcoal, but in New York, we settle for gas) and also known for being loud.

    Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories 2009

  • If “yaki” hasn’t been thrown around enough, there is a specific type of izakaya, a robatayaki, which is a bar centered around a small robata grill that turns out all kinds of grilled things, many of which are kushiyaki.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • If “yaki” hasn’t been thrown around enough, there is a specific type of izakaya, a robatayaki, which is a bar centered around a small robata grill that turns out all kinds of grilled things, many of which are kushiyaki.

    (Robata) Grills Gone Wild - Shin Sen Gumi 2006

  • While we’re at it, a robatayaki is a bar where you sit around a robata grill and keep yourself sober with the kushiyaki coming off the coals.

    Sakura House - A View to a Grill 2006

  • While we’re at it, a robatayaki is a bar where you sit around a robata grill and keep yourself sober with the kushiyaki coming off the coals.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • The Fountain Valley location has the ramen shop, and an adjoining restaurant that offers grilled Japanese pub foods called robatayaki – be advised to choose the right storefront.

    You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » Shinsen Gumi Hakata Ramen - Fountain Valley 2005

  • We wandered the streets of Roppongi until the desk clerk's directions began to make sense, and we had the amazing meal we were hunting for at a robatayaki called Inakaya, where two cooks sit across a wide counter from you and fry up the selections you point to from the cornucopia of foods spread between.

    Roppongi shunn 2007

  • We wandered the streets of Roppongi until the desk clerk's directions began to make sense, and we had the amazing meal we were hunting for at a robatayaki called Inakaya, where two cooks sit across a wide counter from you and fry up the selections you point to from the cornucopia of foods spread between.

    Roppongi shunn 2007

  • The Fountain Valley location has the ramen shop, and an adjoining restaurant that offers grilled Japanese pub foods called robatayaki – be advised to choose the right storefront.

    You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » 2005 » January 2005

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