Fodor's Expert Review Ooki

This humble izakaya, owned and run by the Japanese-Swiss Oki family, is one of many excellent new Japanese restaurants in town. They serve Japanese soul food like curries, donburi bowls, agedaishi dofu, and crispy kaarage that complement the nice selection of Japanese beer, sake, and cocktails like pink sake spritzes. In 2021, they opened a second location in a modernist glass pavilion in Letzigrund, which also became the location for their Summer Garden Pavilion Party with Japanese knife sharpening and origami courses, and kiosks selling kakigōri (Japanese shaved ice), homemade miso and soy, and other Japanese crafts and goods.