{"id":444315,"date":"2025-12-13T10:54:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444315\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:54:35","slug":"the-timeless-punk-rock-japanese-bar-serving-highballs-and-mortadella-katsu-sandwiches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/444315\/","title":{"rendered":"The Timeless Punk Rock Japanese Bar Serving Highballs and Mortadella Katsu Sandwiches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Not much has changed about Masahiro Urishido\u2019s punky passion project, <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/venue\/49061\/katana-kitten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katana Kitten<\/a>, since it came <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2018\/7\/24\/17608976\/katana-kitten-nyc-menu-bar-west-village\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the scene<\/a> in 2018. Nearly a decade later, you\u2019re still guaranteed a good time at the West Village cocktail bar. Dollar bill chandeliers hang from the ceilings. Nostalgic Japanese movie posters promoting Rocky Horror and Star Wars dot the walls. Chatty patrons sip ambitious cocktails throughout the two-level space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Japanese-style highballs are a <a href=\"https:\/\/punchdrink.com\/articles\/build-better-highball-masa-urushido-katana-kitten-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling card<\/a> here. Think custom ice, precisely chilled glasses, and subtle but effective accents like shiso and lemon oil. The melon-lime soda represents a <a href=\"https:\/\/punchdrink.com\/articles\/best-cocktail-dive-bars-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">masterful use<\/a> of Midori, recalling Mountain Dew and kitchy favorite Ramune. The Hinoki martini, presented in its austere wooden box, remains one of the classiest presentations in town. The matcha grasshopper, heady with pandan and coconut, can perform double-duty as dessert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">We pregamed our last trip with a visit to another nearby, more buttoned-up Japanese cocktail bar, <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2023\/6\/15\/23762080\/angels-share-reopening-west-village\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angel\u2019s Share<\/a>. Reverse the order, though, if you want to take advantage of Katana Kitten\u2019s solid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katanakitten.com\/menu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">happy hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">If you like the drinks enough to purchase Urushido\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katanakitten.com\/buy-the-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Art of the Japanese Cocktail<\/a>, it\u2019s a gorgeous coffee table book, but prepare to restock your home bar and make everything from smoked pomelo salt to milk-washed tequila from scratch if you want to try the recipes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not much has changed about Masahiro Urishido\u2019s punky passion project, Katana Kitten, since it came on the scene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":444316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,174767,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-444315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dining-reports","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115711893098846573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}