Yakiniku or Japanese barbecue/grill in Boston area?

mishydishy · Post by **mishydishy** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:18 pm

Are there any yakiniku restaurants in the Boston area? I'm really hoping there is. Yakiniku is also called japanese barbecue or grill (NOT teppanyaki) and even sometimes called korean barbecue or grill, so some korean restaurants could have it. Does anyone know of any place like that? After seeing so many pictures + info about yakiniku, I really want to try it.

ShadowWolf · Post by **ShadowWolf** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:46 pm

Ask and recieve

Yes, you will be pleased to know there are such restaurants and very close to the convention center, I may add. Fire and Ice is only about 3 blocks from the convention. The food wonderful, and the presentation and atmosphere is sensational.

Do yourself a favor and visit the Fire and Ice website.

If you're not looking for more of the shogun style, Kaze Shabu-Shabu is a restaurant located in Chinatown where you can prepare your own shabu-shabu. I also recommend this place highly.

Stop on by Kaze Shabu-Shabu's website to find out more!

ninja_girl21 · Post by **ninja_girl21** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:25 am

i knew there be someone who said fire and ice that is good poopy man.it a tee ride but you can always switch lines.

Post by **Pirate** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:32 am

Fire and Ice is only a few blocks from the convention.

Fetch · Post by **Fetch** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:29 pm

There are 2 'Fire + Ice' in the Boston area.
Back Bay & Harvard Square.

The Back Bay location is right by the Arlington green line stop. which is just 2 stops away from both Hynes and Prudential.
Or: walk past the Pru, the Library, Copley Square, Trinity Church, and the Hancock building (the old building behind the Hancock tower). If you reach Park Plaza hotel, you've gone too far.
If the weather is nice, you'd make faster time walking, as to get out of Arlington station you have to walk a block underground (used to be straight up and out, but they couldn't put the Charlie system in that space, so they put it in the old secondary entrance and make everyone walk the length of the block underground)

jessica · Post by **jessica** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:57 pm

While Fire and Ice is fabulous, it's not Japanese.

If you're looking for authentic Japanese then your best bet is in Chinatown. Hop on the orange line and get off at Chinatown and there are a bunch of restaurants you might want. I don't suggest going there after dark, like 9pm. While Chinatown is awesome during the day, it can get pretty scary at night.

If you want to take a little bit of a trip, hop on the red line and get off at Porter, exit the station and walk for a couple minutes and you'll enter this mall type thing that is full of Japanese everything. It's a bit of a hike, but totally worth it.

ninja_girl21 · Post by **ninja_girl21** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:41 am

thanks for that info i didnt know there more then one fire and ice. kk

KitKat · Post by **KitKat** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:29 am

[quote=jessica]While Fire and Ice is fabulous, it's not Japanese.

If you're looking for authentic Japanese then your best bet is in Chinatown. Hop on the orange line and get off at Chinatown and there are a bunch of restaurants you might want. I don't suggest going there after dark, like 9pm. While Chinatown is awesome during the day, it can get pretty scary at night.

If you want to take a little bit of a trip, hop on the red line and get off at Porter, exit the station and walk for a couple minutes and you'll enter this mall type thing that is full of Japanese everything. It's a bit of a hike, but totally worth it.[/quote]

It's called the Porter Exchange building. ^.^ Whenever I'm in cambride I try and eat there. (Unless I go to the garage mall.. the pizza place there is bomb.)

jessica · Post by **jessica** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:35 am

[quote=KitKat]
It's called the Porter Exchange building. ^.^ Whenever I'm in cambride I try and eat there. (Unless I go to the garage mall.. the pizza place there is bomb.)[/quote]

THANK YOU! I could not remember for the life of me.

I do agree, Crazy Doughs is bomb.

PROTIP: There's one a half a mile from the Hynes on Boylston st. (The Hynes is 900 Boylston and Crazy Doughs is 1124

)

ironzen · Post by **ironzen** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:41 am

cafe mami owns your life

Ranakori · Post by **Ranakori** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:59 pm

Porter Exchange is lovely for Asian dining options. It has several cafes, a grocery, a bubble tea stand, a bakery stand, a knick knack shop, and a more upscale restaurant. I ate there all the time when I had a class there last semester (fun fact, all the upper floors of the Porter Exchange are classrooms for Lesley University). I highly recommend it for several affordable and portable eating options.

There's also a lot of good food around Harvard Square. I recommend 9 Tastes for some really good, really affordable Thai food (and I believe they also have vegetarian options). There are some Indian restaurants I've never tried. And a Wagamama, which has ramen and udon and the like. Wagamama is a little more expensive but your fifteen bucks will buy you a good mea with big portions. Upstairs from Wagamama are some other Asian restaurants and, I think, a shabu-shabu place.

Across the street from Wagamama is the Boston Tea Stop, my favorite bubble tea place in the world. They also have mochi and way more tea options than the bubble tea place in Porter.

I spend a lot of time in Harvard Square.

Echan · Post by **Echan** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:35 pm

This is expensive and out of the way for anyone at the con, but for really authentic and very good Japanese food, I'd recommend Shiki in Coolidge Corner. You can take the C line to Coolidge Corner and it's right off Harvard Street.

brie84 · Post by **brie84** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:11 pm

oh man,they have the best food there. And bubble tea! I'm a big fan of coconut shakes myself, but I like going to Chinatown for that.

Ayako · Post by **Ayako** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:52 pm

I know you can get yakiniku sets from JapaneseCool website. Was looking for cosplay socks there and stumbled across them. Hope it helps the yakiniku faithful here.

Mara · Post by **Mara** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:57 pm

Your best bet is the Porter Exchange. Cafe Mami has yakiniku.

As yakiniku is really referring to Korean barbecue, there's Apollo in Chinatown; never been, but I hear it's good. My favorite is Koreana, between Central and Inman Square in Cambridge. Koreana is where Korean pop stars go to eat when they're in town. It's wonderful. There are some Korean places in Allston; can't really vouch for them one way or another. I live on the South Shore. We go to King Korean BBQ in Canton sometimes; that's also really good (and has charcoal grills whereas Koreana has gas grills if you're picky about one or the other; Koreana has the better food).

Beyond the Porter Exchange, you don't really find any Japanese restaurants owned/operated by the Japanese around here. A lot of what you may find is Japanese/Korean. Authenticity is kind of a questionable term. Authentic in that the dishes are Japanese, are made by Japanese staff, made of imported ingredients, etc?

Check out the Boston Chowhound board or Yelp for more suggestions. Chowhound has the snobbier people, but they usually know what they're talking about. XD