"Chef Hiroki Odo, behind the namesake two-Michelin-starred restaurant, is heading back from Flatiron to where his New York career began. On Sunday, February 1, his team will open Odo East Village, a 24-seat, counter restaurant at 536 East Fifth Street, between avenues A and B, in the former home of long-running ramen shop, Minca. The new restaurant is a homecoming and a reinvention for chef Odo."
"Rather than replicate the formal, multi-hour tasting menus of traditional kaiseki, Odo East Village introduces what the team calls "kaiseki izakaya " : a fully a la carte menu that draws from the techniques, seasonality, and presentation of high-end kaiseki, but with casual ordering, sharing, and shorter visits - most regular menu items are $20 and under. In Japan, kaiseki sits at the very top of the fine-dining hierarchy - even above sushi omakase - but Saito says the goal here is accessibility."
Chef Hiroki Odo will open Odo East Village on Sunday, February 1. The 24-seat counter restaurant at 536 East Fifth Street occupies the former Minca ramen shop between avenues A and B. The restaurant marks a homecoming for Odo, who first cooked in the neighborhood at vegetarian kaiseki restaurant Kajitsu. Odo East Village offers a "kaiseki izakaya" a la carte menu that applies kaiseki techniques, seasonality, and presentation to casual ordering and sharing, with most regular items priced at $20 and under. Odo Hospitality also operates Gallery by Odo, Odo Lounge, Odo at Home (selling tea and pottery used in the restaurant), Hall, and Sushi Muse, and will open Odo Hudson Yards later this year.
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