At EN Japanese Brasserie, we offer the rich traditions of Japanese home cooking with Chef Abe Hiroki’s modern approach to washoku, a relaxed style of dining centered around a procession of small plates. Since opening in 2004, we’ve served authentic, seasonally-inspired dishes, many of which are hard to come by in New York. We are in constant contact with our sister restaurants in Japan, exchanging recipe ideas to provide a transportive dining experience. When you walk through our doors, you will feel as though you're dining in Japan.

From our signature house-made tofu to our Yaki Shabu "thinly sliced washugyu short rib cooked table-side on a hot stone," we serve food that is inventive and soulful, expanding guests’ perceptions of Japanese cuisine. Try the a la carte menu or kaiseki, tasting menus that provide a glimpse at the structure and nuance of a traditional Japanese meal. During lunch, we welcome you to sample Japanese staples such as tonkatsu sando, a Berkshire pork cutlet sandwich with red miso sauce, and we recently introduced weekend brunch, when chef Abe prepares a menu of western influenced and traditional choshoku or Japanese breakfast dishes. At our monthly “fish heads, eel bones & beer” dinners, chef Abe serves a (family-style) menu of crave-worthy dishes made with humble ingredients, like fish heads, Washugyu beef scraps and vegetable peels, inspired by the restaurant’s family meals.

EN Shochu Bar, as the name implies, offers the opportunity to try an array of shochu, a versatile, indigenous Japanese spirit distilled from a variety of ingredients, from traditional ingredients like sweet potato and barley, to those as far-reaching as sesame and carrot. We serve over 20 types of shochu in addition to an extensive selection of over 50 types of sake and specialty cocktails made from freshly squeezed juices.

Designer Ichiro Sato has brought a modern Tokyo aesthetic to New York City with the restaurant’s soaring ceilings and oversized windows, which provide a backdrop for warm woods and authentic, antique panels. The dramatic, spacious dining room is moored by an open kitchen on one end and a beautiful floral arrangement in the center, while tatami-style rooms on the main level and three meiji-era styled apartment rooms on the mezzanine level are ideal for private parties up to 30 people. All aspects of the restaurant were custom-designed and imported from Japan, from the furniture to the colorful block-printed fabrics and tabletop accessories.

Here at EN, we believe in respecting ingredients and their natural flavors, and shun "cooking in the moment" with a delicate touch. For more than six years, we have provided New Yorkers with culinary discovery and welcome you to taste the true flavors of Japan.

Yours,
Reika & Jesse Alexander
Owners

For more information about EN Japanese Brasserie contact us.

reviews

• Opening Ceremony: "Just Eat It: EN Japanese Brasserie", November 2011 view the webpage
• Time Out NY: "Food porn: #100best dishes and drinks 2011", September 2011 view the webpage
• Village Voice: "Fork in the Road: Our 10 Best Restaurant Wedding Venues in NYC", July 2011 view the webpage
• Village Voice: "Fork in the Road: Favorite Restaurants to Take Out-of-Town Guests", July 2011 view the webpage
• Serious Eats: "The Brunch Dish: Chawanmushi and Shake Teishoku from EN Japanese Brasserie", July 2011 view the webpage
• Martha Stewart: "Everyday Food: Japanese Breakfast", June 2011 view the webpage
• NY Press: "Gut Instinct: A Bone to Pick", June 2011 view the webpage
• The Feast, NBC: "Japanese Pancakes Debut at EN", April 2011 view the webpage
• The Feast, NBC: "Jazz Piano Players, Foragers, and Lakers Fans Converge at EN Japanese Brasserie", April 2011 view the webpage
• Travels in Taste: "The Cherry Blossoms are in Bloom", April 2011 view the webpage
• City Spoonful: "Cherry Blossom Festival", April 2011 view the webpage
• Daily Candy: "How to Make Tofu", April 2011 view the webpage
• Daily Candy: "How to Make Soy Milk", April 2011 view the webpage
• Village Voice: "NYC Tofu Guide: A Springy Food for Spring", March 2011 view the webpage
• Kelly Choi: "Very Appetizing: EN Japanese Brasserie ", March 2011 view the webpage
• The Wall Street Journal: "Art, Auction for Japan ", March 2011 view the webpage
• Purple Diary: "love", March 2011 view the webpage
• Scallywag and Vagabond: "En Japanese Brasserie presents Love for Japan starring Wynton Marsalis and Martha Stewart.", March 2011 view the webpage
• Bloomberg: "Mario Andretti, Hilary Swank, Stipe, Marsalis: Scene Last Night", March 2011 view the webpage
• Serious Eats: "The Vegetarian Option: EN Japanese Brasserie", March 2011 view the webpage
• The Strong Buzz: "Fish Heads, Eel Bones and Beer at EN", March 2011 view the webpage
• Travels in taste: "Japanese With A Twist For Valentine’s Day", January 2011 view the webpage
• Feast, NBC: "EN Japanese Brasserie's Bamboo Shoot Sashimi", February 2011 view the webpage
• Travels in taste: "A Little Bit of Luck for the New Year, Brought to You by EN Japanese Brasserie", December 2010 view the webpage
• Refinery 29: "The Best NYC New Year's Eve Parties", December 2010 view the webpage
• New York Magazine's Grub Street: "What everyone was eating at last night's 'New York Taste'", November 2010 view the jpeg
• Wall Street Journal: "'Like a Secret Place", October 2010 view the webpage
• New York Post: "Get a 'Shroom", November 2010 view the jpeg | view the webpage
• Feast, NBC: "Eleven Restaurant Cocktails to Drink This Fall: EN Japanese Brasserie's Yaki Imo", September 2010 view the webpage
• the Village Voice, Fork in the Road: "Dish No. 37: Okara at EN Japanese Brasserie", September 2010 view the webpage
• the Japanese Food Report: "EN's Japanese Cocktails", March 2010 view the webpage
• Village Voice, Fork in the Road: "Our 10 best West Village Restaurants, 1st place", February 2010 view the image
• Bon appetit: "Kyoto's Tofu Obsession", February 2010 view the pdf
• the Japanese Food Report: "dinner party", January 2009 view the webpage
• NY Times: "What the waiter eats", January 2010
• Village Voice: "Report on Last Weekend's Family Meal(Makanai) at EN Japanese Brasserie", January 2010 view the pdf
• Village Voice: "Slurp Tokoy Style O-zoni soup for Good Luck in the New Year at EN Japanese Brasserie", December 2009 view the pdf
• Village Voice, Fork in the Road: "Our 10 best Fried Chickens, 3rd place", December 2009 view the image
• AM New York: "Eating a world of holiday bites", December 2009 view the image
• Grub Street: "Last minute New Year's Eve Options", December 2009 view the image
• Grub Street: "Make a Japanese Hot Pot", December 2009 view the webpage
• Serious Eats: "Lunch for one: EN Japanese Brasserie", December 2009 view the image
• Serious Eats: "Warming up with EN Japanese Brasserie's Hot Pots", December 2009 view the image
• the Japanese Food Report: "boneing and grilling chicken legs", November 26, 2009 view the webpage
• the Japanese Food Report: "breaking a fish", November 26, 2009 view the webpage
• Black Book mag: "The seppun a shochu kiss from en japanese brasserie", November 2009 view the webpage
• Food and Wine: "A Self-Guided Study of Japanese Food", November 2009 view the image
• the Japanese Food Report: "soy milk dressing", October 2009 view the webpage
• the Japanese Food Report: "making tofu", March 16, 2009 view the webpage
• The New York Observer: "Top Ten Sake Dens", January 30, 2008 view the webpage
• New York Times: "You Can Have Your Rice and Drink It, Too", July 27, 2008 view the webpage
• Citysearch: "What's Cooking This Weekend: Rice, Dashi and the Four Brews at En", April 4, 2008 view the webpage
• Ed Levine's New York Eats: "Ticket Giveaway: Japanese Food and Drink Demo and Tasting", March 31, 2008 view the webpage
• the Japanese Food Report: "Morning Pickles", November 16, 2007 view the webpage
• Gothamist: "Ode to Soy: Tofu in Many Guises", November 2, 2006 view the webpage
• the Japanese Food Report: "EN on my mind", November 18, 2005 view the webpage
• New York Times: "A Paean to Tofu in a Japanese Pub", November 24, 2004 view the webpage
• New York Magazine: "EN Style", November 22, 2004 view the pdf
• Andrea Strong: "EN Japanese Brasserie", November 7, 2004 view the webpage
• Salli Vates' NY Food Page: "EN Japanese Brasserie", December 30, 2004 view the webpage

profiles & interviews

• Black Book Magazine: "To the Enth Degree", November, 2011 view the jpeg
• CNN Eatocracy: "Five things you might not know about Japanese cuisine", August, 2011 view the webpage
• Nowness: "Foraging Ahead: EN Japanese Brasserie’s Jesse Alexander Finds Tastes of Asia in Upstate New York", June, 2011 view the webpage
• Nowness: "Hiroki Abe: Root Maneuvers", June, 2011 view the webpage
• The Martha Stewart Show: "Authentic Asian Recipes", April, 2010 view the webpage
• NPR: "Environment Report", April, 2010 view the webpage
• Find Eat Drink: "En Japanese Brasserie", February, 2010 view the webpage
• The Japanese Food Report: "Garlic Fried Rice at En Japanese Brasserie", October 16, 2009 view the webpage
• Grub Street: "Grammy Nominee Maiysha Breakfasts on Shakes, Splurges on Fried Chicken", January 9, 2009 view the webpage
• The Martha Stewart Show: "Chef Yasuhiro Honma", April 23, 2008 view the webpage
• New York Magazine online: "Reika Yo on Where (and What) to Eat During Japanese Restaurant Week", March 2, 2007 view the webpage
• New York Daily News: "NYC's Favorite Sip", January 26, 2007
• New York Post: "Out of Sight", November 5, 2006 view the file
• Japion: "Ryorichou no Sasato Gohan", October 6, 2006 view the webpage (Japanese only)
• New York Sun: "Restaurateurs Serve Up Optimism for Downtown Manhattan", July 19, 2006 view the webpage
• Departures: "Blackbook: the World According to Dr. Andrew Weil", January/February 2006 view the webpage
• the Japanese Food Report: "EN on My Mind", November 19, 2005 view the webpage
• Food and Wine: "It Takes a Tough Man to Make Tender Tofu", September, 2005 view the webpage
• Conde Nast Traveler: "Word of Mouth: Now and Zen", March 2005 view the webpage
• Nylon: "EN Vogue", March 23, 2005
• New York Times: "Artisinal, Creamy . . . Tofu?", January 5, 2005 view the webpage
• Elle Decor: "What's Hot!", December/January 2005 view the pdf
• Women's Wear Daily: "En Garde", October 12, 2004 view the pdf
• New York Magazine: "Comforts of Home", October 4, 2004 view the pdf
• New York Magazine: "Big in Japan", October 11, 2004 view the pdf
• Gotham: "Eating Like Never Before", September 2004 view the pdf
• Time Out New York: "EN Vogue", September 30, 2004 view the pdf

awards

• the Village Voice: "Our 10 Best Tofu Dishes in NYC, 1st place", January 2011 view the webpage
• Timeout New York: "The 10 best dishes and drinks", October 2010 view the jpeg
• the Village Voice: "Robert Sietsema's Best Fried Chicken - 2010", October 2010 view the webpage
• Village Voice, Fork in the Road: "Our 10 best West Village Restaurants, 1st place", February 2010 view the image
• Village Voice, Fork in the Road: "Our 10 best Fried Chickens, 3rd place", December 2009 view the image
• Forbes magazine: All-Star Eateries in New York ☆ ☆ ☆, 2007
• Michelin Guide Recommended, every year from 2005
• Village Voice: Best Japanese, Midscale, October 18, 2006 view the file
• Time Out New York: Best New Japanese Restaurant Under $350; Best Restaurant Design