Review: Tsubaki in Echo Park is a modern izakaya with a serious sake obsession

Japanese pub fare and craft sake shines at Tsubaki, a neighborhood izakaya in Echo Park.
Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • March 28, 2019
On any given night, Tsubaki, a tiny neighborhood izakaya in Echo Park, radiates the kind of buzzy, convivial warmth that inspires small huddles of people to gather outside the front door at dusk to wait for an open table. Is it the exposed brick,...
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