Izakaya Rintaro

In anticipation of reopening indoors, Rintaro is looking for a server and bartender. The pace is fast and deep interest in Japanese food and sake is necessary. Email a letter to [email protected]. /

California spring fruit jellies. The kiwi was a bit tricky. Also Ruby grapefruit, strawberry and Cara Cara orange. On the bento and courtyard menus this weekend.

Birth of a new bento: Sushi rice, usuyaki tamako, King Crab miso, crab salad, crab leg, Quinault steelhead roe, Osetra caviar and Half Moon Bay wasabi. For tonight only.

Today, we are introducing a limited Odd Bits Yakitori Bento. With liver, hearts, cartilage, chicken oyster, thigh sansho, tsukune, king trumpet, chicken soboro and shoyu tamago. It will be available online today after 2 pm.

Osechi Bento with many many foods for good luck, health and happiness in the New Year. We’re finished for 2020. Happy New Year!

Our first Osechi Bento in years. And we’re finished for 2020! Happy New Year!

‘Tis the season for Nabeyaki Udon. Today, a new version with head on wild shrimp, lingcod satsumaage and scallop and onion kakiage tenpura. And hot spring eggs and komatsuna and green onion.

Chikuzen-ni will be one of the big projects for the Osechi Bento. Today on the menu: sweet simmered root vegetables and chicken with lotus root, konyaku, shiitake, Nantes carrots, daikon and gobo root with rice.

Before I opened Rintaro, I had a catiering company called Peko Peko. Our biggest project of the year was the New Year’s Osechi bento. I would make the boxes with my father, and then we would cook for a week straight to make all the elements. Most of the foods were traditional Osechi foods meant to last and to bring good luck in the new year. This year, with Shelter in Place, we will be doing it again. The menu will be our most ambitious ever. We will be making 60 two box sets. They go on sale at 2:00 today on RESY. @ayabrackett

Our old friend Dashimaki Tamago is back on the menu. And Mr. Oden Set has grown to include roll cabbage with Berkshire pork and Kinchaku with Meiji tofu filled with mochi.

Nabeyaki Udon Kits are back on the take away bento menu. With charcoal grill Sonoma Liberty Duck, chicken tsukune, Rintaro satsumaage, onsen tamago, chrysanthemum greens and, of course, hand-rolled udon. This one was cooked in my family’s old Mongolian hotpot, but any pot will do.

Fall feelings around the restaurant.

Rintaro bento pickup @sip.alkalirye today. Order online (don’t forget to select Oakland pickup!). Kori and Jessica have selected some drinks to pair: McBride Sisters Sparkling Rosé for Udon, Franchere Wines Cascadia red blend for Tonkatsu and Yakitori, and Hitachino Nest White Ale beers for everything!

I’ve been restraining myself from picking the yuzu on our little tree in the courtyard.. until today. In the courtyard this weekend: grilled spiny lobsters this weekend with yuzu beurre blanc.

Yakitori bento and a beer. Izakaya

On the menu this weekend: super honmaguro from San Pedro, hand-rolled udon, @oyatsuya.sf soufflé cheesecake and all the fish cakes in the oden. We are fully booked tonight in the courtyard and on the sidewalk tonight, but plenty of bento available, including the Deluxe Temakizushi Handroll set with that excellent tuna.

Hello East Bay. Today, as every Thursday, we will be delivering our bento to @sip.alkalirye near the Grand Lake Theatre for pickup between 5:30-7:00. Place your order on our website (choose the Oakland drop down menu) or order on our bento hotline between 2:00-3:30.

My favorite new thing on the menu: poached Bartlett Pear and Concord Grape Kanten Zeri! Although we are full swing with table service in our (heated) courtyard, we are also still making many bento. See the menu below. . Online Order for Pickup: Link in Profile Bento Hotline: (415) 517-8539 Pickup Times: 5:00 8:30... . **B E N T O** HIYASHI UDON 20 Chilled Rintaro udon, poached chicken breast, carrot, ribbon egg, Hikari Farm cucumber, corn and Wadaman sesame sauce . MOMOTARO’S TAN TAN UDON 25 Rintaro hand-rolled summer udon with rich soy milk and dashi soup, spicy Berkshire pork, corn, cherry tomato and komatsuna . ODEN SET 20 Rich dashi-simmered corn sataumaage fishcake, lingcod hanpen fishcake, bathing daikon, hard cooked egg and hot mustard . CHIRASHIZUSHI BENTO 30 Scattered sushi with Calif. bluefin, konbu-cured S.F. halibut, Baja yellowtail amberjack, ribbon egg and Half Moon Bay wasabi . YAKITORI BENTO 30 Rice, charcoal-grilled Rintaro tsukune, king trumpet mushroom, thigh + sansho, chef’s choice, chicken soboro and shoyu tamago . TONKATSU BENTO 30 Rice, Becker Lane pork loin katsu with Acme panko, sauerkraut, pork soboro and side snowy cabbage salad . RINTARO MORI MORI BENTO 50 Large bento with chicken and Wagon Wheel cheese katsu, grilled Rintaro tsukune, sashimi of Calif. bluefin, kanpachi and konbu-cured halibut and onigiri . ** ETC** SHUNGIKU KAMO SARADA 15 Hikari Farm chrysanthemum green salad with charcoal-grilled Liberty duck breast . TEBA NO KARAAGE 15 Six piece Japanese-fried chicken wings with smoky tare, sansho and frilly mustard . KUROBUTA GYOZA 15 Six piece Becker Lane pork gyoza . YONASHI ZERI Poached Penryn Orchards Bartlett pear in concord grape and wine jelly with cream See more

I love how the world continues with its cycles even as everything feels on the brink. Spot prawn sashimi in the courtyard tonight. With their crispy little legs.

Hello fish friends. Tomorrow, we will have lovely local fishes available in Monterey Fish’s CSF box. Order directly from @montereyfishmarket by midnight tonight for pickup Wednesday in the courtyard during our regular service hours. A box of the fish in the photo will be $45. Mt. Lassen rainbow trout x 2, Monterey squid... S.F. halibut for raw Consider ordering a fresh @halfmoonbaywasabi directly from us to use with the local halibut.

Every once in a while, I’ll make something that I’m really proud of. Today is one of those days. Here’s a Bartlett pear and Concord grape kanten jelly. I impatiently waited two weeks for the @penrynorchardspecialties pears to ripen to creamy. We’re also in peak grape season, and I used some of the Concords growing in my back garden and a bottle of rosé. Serving with creme anglasie for a bit of richness. Available in the courtyard and on the bento menu.

Good morning East Bay. Tomorrow, as every Thursday, we will be delivering our bento to @sip.alkalirye near the Grand Lake Theatre for pickup between 5:30-7:00. Place your order on our website starting at midnight tonight (choose the Oakland drop down menu) or order on our bento hotline tomorrow. Every week, Jessica and Kori at Alkali Rye select special drinks from their excellent collection to pair with the bento. This week, they suggest an Amaro Highball: Home Base Bitter amaro-style liqueur with Topo Chico mineral water.