O-Ku
1274 5th St NE, Washington, DC
Menu (As of 10/29)
Small Plates
- Miso Soup $6.00Miso, tofu
- Edamame $5.00
- Spicy Edamame $6.00
- Truffle Edamame $7.00
- Seaweed Salad $7.00
- House Salad $7.00carrot & ginger vinaigrette
- Brussel Sprouts $16.00sweet & sour, sesame
- Wild Mushrooms $18.00oniku tare, butter, fresh herbs
- O-Ku Rock Shrimp $17.00tempura fried shrimp, spicy aioli
- Gyoza $11.00crispy pork & chicken gyoza, garlic chili sauce
Chefs Specialties
- Usuzukuri $20.00Scottish salmon, pickled wasabi stem, chives, black salt, truffle ponzu
- Scallop Crudo $19.00cucumber, yuzu juice, garlic chili crisps
- A-5 Wagyu Sando $90.00buttered milk bread, black garlic wasabi aioli, sturgeon caviar, shiso leaf
- Lobster Temaki $39.00Butter-poached lobster, asparagus, chives, beets, cilantro aioli, black volcanic salt
- Otoro Spoons $18 per eachjapanese uni, caviar, pickled wasabi stem, truffle ponzu
- Yellowtail Carpaccio $20.00ponzu, herb oil, yuzu oil, radish, serrano, cilantro
- Kampachi Crudo $28.00Leche de tigre, red onion, micro cilantro, chili oil
- Wagyu Dumplings $21.00A5 wagyu, ginger, cabbage, scallion, honey miso ponzu sauce
Hot Plates
- Karaage Chicken $28.00crispy chicken, sweet & spicy gochujang, green onion, sesame
- Chashu Don $29.00sweet soy braised pork belly, fried egg, pickled cabbage, steamed rice, scallions
- Yaki Sakana $36.00salmon, ginger shoyu miso, garlic stir-fried broccolini, scallions
Hakozushi (Box Style Sushi)
- Black Magic $31.00Tempura fried lobster salad, crispy onions, squid ink rice, masago, spicy & cilantro aioli, chives
Toban Yaki
- Per Oz $34.00
- Lobster $36.00sauteed mushrooms, yuzu butter, chives
Sides
- Fresh Wasabi $13.00
- Pickled Wasabi Stem $7.00
- Sautéed Vegetables $7.00
- Sushi Rice $6.00
- Fried Rice $8.00
Harvest Roll
- Harvest Roll $16.00avocado, asparagus, fried sweet potato, chili mango sauce, micro greens
Spider Roll
- Spider Roll $18.00soft shell crab, krab salad, yuzu tobiko, eel sauce
- Eel of Fortune $20.00seared eel, cucumber, serrano, avocado, red tobiko, crispy onions, eel sauce
- Salmon & Lemon $16.00Salmon, lemon, krab salad, avocado, cucumber
- Tuna Tataki $19.00togarashi seared tuna, tempura shrimp, avocado, eel sauce, spicy aioli
- Snow King $20.00blue crab salad, cucumber, seared salmon, miso truffle aioli, micro cilantro
- Surf & Turf $20.00seared beef, tempura shrimp, avocado, cilantro aioli, pickled wasabi stem, crispy onions, micro cilantro
- Fuego Fiasco $18.00Spicy tuna mix, cucumber, yellowtail, cilantro, avocado, serrano, sriracha
- The Playboy $19.00Tempura shrimp, cucumber, spicy tuna mix, salmon, avocado, yuzu miso, microgreens
- Scallop $18.00aburi, truffle ponzu, summer burgundies truffle, shaved truffle cheese
- Madai $15.00yuzu marmalade, shiso
- Yellowtail $10.00aburi, umeboshi, togarshi aioli
- Tuna $12.00green yuzu kosho, chives
- A-5 Wagyu $21.00Seared, soy glaze, pickled wasabi stem, foie gras
- Salmon $10.00cilantro aioli, ikura
- Otoro $21.00truffle ponzu, Japanese Uni, Caviar
- O-Ku Signature Flight (All 7) $100.00
Moriawase
- Nigiri $85.00
- Nigiri | Sashimi $95.00
- Sashimi $85.00
Sashimi & Nigiri
- Big Eye Tuna $8 / $10
- Toro [1pc] $13.00
- Salmon (Sake) $7 / $9
- Hamachi (Yellowtail) $8 / $10
- Hotate (Scallop) $7 / $9
- Ikura (Salmon Roe) $6.00
MKT
- Unagi (Freshwater Eel) $5 / $7
- Madai (Japanese Snapper) $10 / $12
- Kampachi (Amberjack) $10 / $12
- Wagyu (Beef) $9.00
- Ora King Salmon $9 / $11
- Mirai Salmon $14 / - $16
Shima Aji
Signature Temaki
- Akami Tuna $13.00honey miso, scallions
- Salmon Belly $14.00togarashi aioli, garlic chili crisps
- A-5 Wagyu $17.00truffle-ginger butter, chives
- Blue Crab $13.00ikura, scallions
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