Kushibar - "What street food?"

When I think of “Street Food”, I imagine a food cart with steam rising from the boilers below. A one manned station working furiously preparing food, while she or he takes the next five orders and cashes out the present hungry patron. Its simple, easy, and tasty food. Seattle doesn’t have much of a street food scene here, except for the hotdog carts that are dotted alongside of bars and nightclubs during the weekends.

Then there is Kushibar. This restaurant located in Belltown calls itself a “Japanese Street Food” type of restaurant. When you first approach the building it looks something like a Japanese bathhouse that the indoor patio is located. The wood slates makes it look street food-ish, but the moment you walk in the clean long narrow lines of the interior makes it look like some type of minimalist LA restaurant.

You first start with a complimentary bowl of curried popcorn they give to you to start off your drinking buds, very clever. I ended up with a Sapporo in my little hands immediately. After that we ordered about five small plates of “street food”. Some of the items that we really wanted they were out of. So all in all, its just sushi type appetizers, an awful smoke scallop dish with no taste swimming in a tasty broth. Everything was beautifully presented and no taste at all. I think the shining star of this meal was the popcorn which is the only thing that would qualify as street food. But here are some pictures for you to enjoy!