If anyone is looking for a good happy hour option in Tribeca that's not your standard bar, look no further than Shigure. It reminds me a bit of the happy hour at Tsurutontan Udon Noodle Brasserie where it's a few Japanese small plates and sakes for relatively cheap. The happy hour here is only good from 5-7pm, so definitely come early and get our fill. While I love sushi, I've always had a soft spot for Japanese small plates as well - they just know how to do everything right food wise.
I met up with Nima on a cold winter day and while the main menu looked great, we opted to stick with the happy hour menu. We got a bunch of basic sushi rolls ($9 -I know it doesn't sound like such a deal but they are normally $13 and they do come 8 pieces to a roll) like spicy tuna, spicy yellowtail, and salmon avocado, takoyaki ($7), fried chicken ($8), sashimi ($12), and edamame ($5). The rolls were simple but solid and super filling. The sashimi came with 4 different kinds and was nicely sliced - it was your usual tuna, salmon, yellowtail and octopus line up. The edamame was a bit unusual in that they were grilled instead of boiled. It added a nice burnt tasting element to them that you usually don't get but other than that, it was still a basic edamame dish. The only thing that I wasn't a huge fan of was the takoyaki which is chopped octopus inside of a savory mini pancake ball. It wasn't bad but the combination of octopus and carbs didn't really do it for me. The best dish of all of them was the fried chicken. Oh my, it was juicy, crispy but not overly battered. It's mostly thigh meat which makes it even tastier and it's served with a homemade scallion oil. There were 4-5 pieces, so it's very filling and we totally wanted to get another order but restrained ourselves.
We pretty much ordered everything on the happy hour menu except for the shishito peppers, veggie spring rolls and a few different kinds of sushi rolls. We somehow also left room for dessert which was a green tea souffle - it was warm, simple but oozing with goodness. I should note that Shigure is also a sake bar so they have a really solid line up of sakes to choose from - for happy hour they only have 3 to choose from - I tried 2 of them and they were all smooth and fantastic.
While we went with the happy hour menu to save money, one of the dangers of menus like this is the high risk of over ordering and we definitely did that. I didn't regret it but I would have stuck with maybe 4-5 plates vs the 8-9 we ended up having! Total bill: $74/pp with tax, tip and a few rounds of sake
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