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Daikaya

Item: Daikaya
Author: Gina Gallucci White

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Located near the Verizon Center, this casual venue features a ramen shop on one level and an izakaya – a Japanese comfort restaurant on the other. You will want to visit both. Stop in the ramen shop for a quick bowl of Sapporo style ramen noodles which are the same offered in Japan. You can also get a cup of sake to wish them down. Head to the izakaya for dinner and drinks. Try some fun bites like grilled oyster or yamaimo or skewers featuring chicken liver, zucchini or beef tongue jalapeno. You may just want to go straight to the rice and noodle dishes including cod roe spaghetti and pancit udon. METRO: Gallery Place/Chinatown.

Address:

705 6th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:

202-589-1600

Website:

daikaya.com

EXPERT TIPS BY: Gina Gallucci White
Washington Local Expert

Best Value: "You must order the ramen at this eatery. You will tank us later!"
Restaurants near Verizon Center: "You must eat the ramen at this eatery. Trust us. You will thank us later."
Asian: "You must order the ramen at this eatery. You will thank us later."

Recommended as Best Value Because: Whether its a quick bite or a leisurely dinner, this is the spot for ramen.
Best for Restaurants near Verizon Center Because: Whether it's a quick bite or a leisurely dinner, this is the spot to get great ramen noodles.
Best for Asian Because: Whether it's a quick bite or a leisurely dinner, this is the spot for ramen noodles.

Lunch Menu
- Small Plates
  
  Cucumber Salad
  
  Feta, ginger-rayu dressing ($5.00)
  
  Tuna & Watermelon Poke
  
  Pine nuts, red sorrel ($7.00)
  
  Cream Crab Korokke
  
  Old bay, Kani-Kama salad ($7.00)
  
  Chicken Kara-Age
  
  Butter, Tabasco® honey ($6.00)
  
  Fried Shishito Peppers
  
  Sea salt, Padron style ($5.00)
  
  Smashed Pee Wee Potatoes
  
  Fried salt-crusted potatoes, chives, butter, soy ($6.00)
  
  Flame Grilled Scallop
  
  Aomori City Scallop, butter, dashi, apple, soy ($4.00)
  
  Takoyaki
  
  Dashi, fresh dill, chives ($6.00)
  
  Avocado & Grapefruit Salad
  
  Ode to Chef Ann Cashion - Mizuna, chia seed white soy vinaigrette ($8.00)
- Cold Ramen
  
  Hiyashi Chuka - Shoyu or Spicy Miso
  
  Chashu, our ramen egg, corn, cucumber, kombu, tomatoes, bean sprouts, arugula, carrots, ginger, shredded nori ($14.00)
- Large Plates
  
  Takoraisu
  
  An Okinawan Specialty: ground taco beef, salsa Mexicana, sour cream, cilantro, over rice ($9.00)
  
  Chasu Sisig
  
  Filipino-Japanese pork hash, chicken liver, scallion, yuzu-kosho, Onsen egg ($9.00)
  
  Hawaiian Loco Moco
  
  Hambagu, red wine gravy, fried egg ($8.00)
  
  Shake Your Bento Box
  
  Grilled pork belly, sunny egg, nori, kimchi, kewpie, cheese, rice ($8.00)
Izakaya Menu
- Otsumami / Fun Bites
  Grilled Rappahannock Oyster
  
  With sake and housemade oyster salt ($2.75)
  
  Baked Rappahannock Oyster
  
  With teriyaki sauce, butter, and parmesan cheese ($3.25)
  
  Chawanmushi
  
  Steamed egg and dashi custard with braised shiitake, parmesan, and enoki mushrooms ($7.75)
  
  Yamaimo
  
  Japanese mountain yam with sweet soy vinegar, basil, marinated salmon roe, and CA arbequina olive oil ($6.00)
  
  Fermented Japanese Vegetables
  Housemade Sake Lee Daikon: $2.00
  
  Napa Cabbage: $2.00
  
  Nukazuke: $2.00
  
  Assortment Of Three: $5.00
  Fried Garlic
  
  With kimchee-miso sauce and pickled garlic ($3.00)
  
  Wasabi Tako
  
  Raw marinated octopus with granny smith apple, celery, CA arbequina olive oil, and wasabi sprout ($6.00)
  
  Sauteed Edamame
  
  With garlic, extra virgin olive oil, chili and lemon ($4.25)
- Aomono / Green Things
  
  Grilled Avocado
  
  With housemade ponzu, fresh wasabi, and nori salt ($6.50)
  
  Seared Enoki Mushrooms
  
  Topped with miso butter ($9.00)
  
  Smashed Pee Wee Potatoes
  
  fried and topped with irish butter, soy sauce, scallions, and spicy cod roe ($6.50)
  
  Burrata Salad
  
  Arugula, cherry tomatoes, dashi gelee, and ponzu vinaigrette ($12.00)
  
  Japanese Eggplant
  
  With sesame-lamb sauce, Greek yogurt and mint ($5.50)
  
  Warm Napa Cabbage Salad
  
  With apples, Kewpie-yogurt, and marinated salmon roe ($6.50)
  
  Chilled Cucumber
  
  With rayu vinaigrette, crispy garlic, ground sesame seed, and chili thread ($6.00)
- Sakana / Fish Things
  
  Tuna Poke
  
  Raw marinated tuna with seaweed, pine nuts, and sesame oil ($10.00)
  
  Assortment of Sashimi
  
  please ask for today 's selection
  
  Miso Salmon
  
  With pea puree and pea tendrils ($9.50)
  
  Crab Croquettes
  
  With Old Bay, corn, tonkatsu sauce, and nori salt ($8.00)
  
  Miso Braised Saba
  
  With mustard "caviar". Please enjoy the soft bones ($7.75)
- Kushi / Skewers
  
  Zucchini
  
  with lemon and thyme ($2.00)
  
  Chicken Thigh
  
  ($3.00)
  
  Chicken Liver
  
  ($3.00)
  
  Chicken Wing
  
  ($3.00)
  
  Beef Tongue jalapeño - "yuzu kosho"
  
  ($4.00)
  
  Beef Tenderloin
  
  with wasabi butter ($5.00)
  
  Quail
  
  ($9.00)
  
  Pork and Brussels Sprouts
  
  " Okonomiyaki - style " with Kewpie mayo, okonomiyaki sauce, bonito flakes, and aonori ($6.00)
- Oniku / Meat Things
  
  Cold Steamed Chicken Breast
  
  With sesame tofu sauce and mustard greens ($12.00)
  
  "Hambagu" Japanese-style beef hamburger steak
  
  With red wine-Worcestershire sauce ($10.00)
  
  Chicken Kara-age
  
  With chili-Kewpie sauce ($7.50)
  
  Pork and Beef Stuffed Cabbage
  
  With yuzu-kosho and shiso ($8.75)
- Gohan to Men Rui / Rice and Noodles
  Mentaiko Mini Domburi
  
  Fish roe, green onion, nori, and soy-Kewpie over a bowl of rice ($5.00)
  
  Onigiri rice ball
  Kombu Soy And Seaweed: $3.00
  
  Abura-miso Pork And Sweet Miso: $3.00
  
  Ume: $3.00
  Cod Roe Spaghetti
  
  With nori, chervil, and cream sauce ($9.25)
Brunch Menu
- Cocktails
  
  Daikaya Bloody Mary
  
  House bloody mix nori-infused vodka ($8.00)
  
  Rhubarb Chu-hai
  
  Iichiko shochu, Uncle Dad's Rhubarb Soda ($8.00)
  
  Sesame Street
  
  Beniotome sesame shochu, ginger beer, yuzu, Angostura bitters ($8.00)
  
  Tokyo Mule
  
  Mizu shochu, house ginger beer, lime ($8.00)
  
  Rickey Nixon
  
  Beefeater Gin, house alphine tonic, lime ($10.00)
  
  Eldrick "Tiger" Woods
  
  Ginza No Suzume, ginger iced tea, yuzu ($8.00)
- Non-Alcoholic
  Rhu-hai
  
  Uncle Dad's Rhubarb Soda ($6.00)
  
  Yuzu Lemonade
  
  yuzu, lemon, soda ($5.00)
  
  Japanese Green Tea
  
  Sencha - green tea, Houjicha - roasted green tea, Genmaicha - "brown rice tea" ($6.00)
  
  French Press Coffee
  Qualia Coffee, Washington DC
  
  Small Press(1): $4.00
  
  Large Press(2-4): $12.00
- Brunch Dishes
  
  "Chicken and Waffles"
  
  chicken kara-age and red bean taiyaki with wasabi butter and maple syrup ($7.00)
  
  French Toast
  
  soaked overnight in cream and soy milk and dusted with kinako ($7.00)
  
  Poached Egg and Chesapeake Korokke
  
  with warm brown butter mayo and tonkatsu sauce on an english muffin ($7.00)
  
  "Hapa Loco Moco"
  
  Japanese hambagu, fried egg and rice with gravy ($10.00)
  
  Cold Steamed Chicken Breast Salad
  
  succulent skin-on whole chicken breast with sesame tofu sauce and arugula ($12.00)
  
  "Lox and Onigiri"
  
  smoked salmon, salmon sashimi, ikura, pickled onion, cream cheese and everything onigiri ($8.00)
  
  Burrata Salad
  
  with dashi gelee, arugula and roasted cherry tomatoes ($12.00)
  
  Slow Cooked Steel Cut Oatmeal
  
  with Calpico-yogurt and fresh seasonal fruit ($6.00)
  
  Sisig
  
  Filipino braised pork hash skillet with onsen egg, liver mayo, and kalamansi lime ($7.00)
  
  Croissant
  
  with uni butter, white shoyu "broken" egg ($8.00)
- Cold Dishes
  Cucumber Salad
  
  with rayu vinaigrette, crispy garlic, ground sesame seed and chili thread ($6.00)
  
  Yamaimo
  
  with sweet soy vinegar, basil, marinated salmon roe and arbequina olive oil ($6.00)
  
  Tuna Poke
  
  with seaweed, pine nuts and sesame oil ($10.00)
  
  Assortment of Sashimi
  
  please ask for today's selection
  
  House Fermented Japanese Vegetables
  Sake Lees Daikon, Napa Cabbage, Nukazuke
  
  $2.00
  
  For Three: $5.00
  Wasabi Octopus
  
  with granny smith apple, celery, California arbequina olive oil and wasabi sprouts ($6.00)
- Braised and Fried Dishes
  
  Pork and Brussels Sprouts Skewer
  
  "okonomiyaki-style" with Kewpie mayo, okonomiyaki sauce, bonito flakes and aonori ($6.00)
  
  Pork and Beef Stuffed Cabbage
  
  with yuzu-kosho and shis ($8.75)
  
  Miso Braised Saba
  
  with pickled mustard seed and Japanese mustard. Please enjoy the soft bones ($7.25)
- Rice Dishes
  
  Mentaiko Mini Dombur
  
  fish roe, green onion, nori, soy and Kewpie over a bowl of rice ($5.00)
  
  Onigiri (rice balls)
  
  Kombu soy and seaweed filling, Abura-miso pork and sweet miso filling ($3.00)
- Grilled Dishes
  
  Baked Rappahannock Oyster
  
  with teriyaki sauce, butter and parmesan cheese ($3.25)
  
  Grilled Rappahannock Oyster
  
  ($2.75)
  
  Japanese Eggplant
  
  with sesame-lamb sauce, Greek yogurt and mint ($5.50)
  
  Grilled Avocado
  
  with housemade ponzu, fresh wasabi and nori salt ($6.50)
- Skewers
  
  Zucchini
  
  with lemon and thyme ($2.00)
  
  Chicken Thigh
  
  ($3.00)
  
  Chicken Liver
  
  ($3.00)
  
  Chicken Wing
  
  ($3.00)
  
  Beef Tongue
  
  with jalapeño kosho ($4.00)
  
  Beef Tenderloin
  
  ($5.00)
  
  Quail
  
  ($9.00)
- Desserts
  
  Black Sesame Panna Cotta
  
  with honey balls and whipped cream ($5.00)
  
  Purin
  
  with caramel ice, orange, purin espuma and burnt orange zest ($5.00)
  
  Chocolate Aisu-Kurimu
  
  with miso-banana caramel, chocolate crisps and crushed banana chips ($5.00)
  
  Soft Serve
  
  ask for daily flavors and toppings ($3.00)

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