After months of previews, it’s full velocity forward for Kaedama Battleship, the latest restaurant from restaurateur Chad Carey’s Empty Abdomen Group. As of Friday, November 21, the downtown noodle bar is open at 122 E. Houston St. #103.
“Kaedama Battleship is now open and prepared for you,” the restaurant wrote in a shock Instagram announcement. “Come see us ASAP.”
Empty Abdomen first teased the idea in late August with a collection of takeovers at Scorching Pleasure. The identify nods to the Japanese time period kaedama, that means an additional serving to of noodles. The stripped-down ambiance evokes the numerous ramen-yas discovered on Ramen Avenue in Japan’s Tokyo Station.
Through textual content, Carey credit the design to Amada Miller and “our in-house staff of guerilla weirdos.”
A peek inside Kaedama Battleship.Kaedama Battleship/ Instagram
1 / 4 of ramen bowls type the bottom of the menu, led by a culinary staff that features John Philpot, Alex Roth, and David Filler. Friends can select from silky tonkatsu with pork stomach, double miso with shitake mushrooms, pork shoyu, or hen sapporo with yuzu-kosho meatballs and blistered shishitos. As with most ramen outlets, the soups will be custom-made with numerous add-ons like a togarashi spice mix, corn, or a black garlic-morita pepper combine.
The brand new spot additionally serves an array of snacks, together with a salad with sunomono pickles, charred edamame, crab croquettes, and beef dumplings. The macaroni salad is a nod to the everyman with scorching canine, Spam, cucumber, and corn.
The drink menu is as minimal because the house. Along with cold and hot sakes and imported beer, Kaedama mixes up highballs made with gin, vodka, whiskey, and shochu. All the pieces is inexpensive. Save for a handful of large-format sake bottles, nothing on the menu is priced over $16, together with the meals.
In response to the social media publish, Kaedama Battleship is open day by day from 11 am-midnight. Nonetheless to return from Empty Abdomen is Merci Jones, a cocktail bar at 1101 Broadway close to Scorching Pleasure, Pumpers, and NOLA Brunch & Beignets. There’s no phrase on when it would open, however it’s now hiring and can little doubt launch as immediately as Kaedama Battleship.
