Tanuki was a Japanese restaurant and bar in Portland, Oregon.[1][2][3][4] The business operated from 2008 to 2019.
The Japanese restaurant Tanuki initially operated on 21st Avenue at Flanders Street in northwest Portland's Northwest District,[5][6] before relocating to the Montavilla neighborhood in 2011.[7] Erin DeJesus described the original space as a "hole-in-the-wall".[8] Signs at the Montavilla space said "No sushi, no kids" and "This is not a Japanese restaurant".[9]
The menu included gyoza, sashimi,[5] kimchi, and oshinko.[10] Tanuki also served fermented noodles,[11] trout in a seaweed butter sauce, kimchi macaroni and cheese, duck heart, various seafood dishes,[12] and buns with kimchi, blue cheese, and sake-cured bacon.[13] The bar stocked Asian beers,[9] sake, shōchū, and Japanese whisky. Among cocktails was the Dejima, which had Damrak gin, St. Germain, and rhubarb bitters.[14]
The restaurant opened on 21st Avenue in 2008.[5][15] Janis Martin was the chef and owner.[5][16] In 2011, the restaurant relocated to Stark Street in the southeast Portland part of the Montavilla neighborhood.[7] Tanuki began restricting seating in 2013.[17] Suffering from a seafood allergy,[18] Martin closed Tanuki permanently in 2019 and began working at East Glisan Pizza Lounge.[19]
In 2012, Karen Brooks and Rachel Ritchie included Tanuki in Portland Monthly's "Best of the Rest", a list of 35 local eateries "that should remain in any food lover's regular rotation".[20] Brooks later called the restaurant the city's "notorious cult izakaya".[21] In 2016, Time Out included Tanuki in a list of the eighteen best Japanese restaurants in the United States.[22]
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