Oto-Oto Izakaya Japonaise Menu
Welcome to Oto-Oto Izakaya Japonaise, a delightful Japanese whiskey bar nestled in Monrovia, CA. This establishment not only excels in its tranquil ambiance but also offers an impressive menu packed with delectable options.
- Yakitori Skewers: A favorite among regulars, they are perfectly cooked and bursting with flavor.
- Sushi and Sashimi: While they’re hit or miss, highlights such as the salmon ikura bowl and premium sashimi can impress.
- Chirashi Don: This dish features freshly prepared sashimi atop lightly vinegared rice, making it a must-try.
- Tempura: Light and crispy, it pairs beautifully with their tangy wasabi dressing.
Oto-Oto combines quality food with exceptional service and a friendly atmosphere, making it the perfect spot for families, groups, or a casual night out. Don’t forget to join for happy hour to savor their exquisite offerings!
Sushi Combinations
Sushi Combo Premium
8pcs Freshcut assorted sushi with wasabi in between the fish and rice. Served with an 8pc tuna cut roll.
Sushi Combo
5pcs of Freshcut assorted sushi with wasabi in between the fish and rice. Served with an 8pc Cucumber cut roll.
Zaru Soba
Traditional cold buckwheat soba noodles served with cold soba dipping sauce. Separate toppings include, sesame seeds, green onions, and nori seaweed.
Tempura Zaru Soba
Cold buckwheat soba noodle served with side of shrimp and vegetable tempura.
Yakisoba Noodles
Traditional stirfried Yakisoba noodles. Pork belly slices, cabbage, carrots, and onions. Sprinkled with aonoriko seaweed. Served with a side of pickled ginger and Japanese mayo.
Extra Spicy Beef Ramen
Our very own spicy beef ramen with original beef broth. Contains chili oil, sesame oil, sesame seeds, red pepper string, bean sprouts, nira onion, ramen noodles. Please order at your own discretion! Spice level can not be changed.
Tempura Zaru Udon
Cold Udon served with a side of shrimp and vegetable tempura.
Uni Pasta
Spaghetti mixed with Uni sauce and fresh Uni and Iwa nori.
Tonkotsu Ramen
Pork based broth. Pork Chashu slice, fried green onions, halfcut softboiled egg, sesame, seaweed, spinach, bamboo shoots, and ramen noodles.
Zaru Udon
Traditional cold flour udon noodles served with cold soba dipping sauce. Separate toppings include, sesame seeds, green onions, and nori seaweed.
Nabeyaki Udon
Udon noodles in dashi broth, cooked with 2 shrimp tempura, chicken, fish cakes, yamagobo, spinach and yuzu peel.
RamenNoodles
Sashimi
Albacore Sashimi
5pcs of Freshcut Albacore Sashimi, served with daikon on shiso.
Toro Ootoro Sashimi
4 cuts of Ootoro, the fattiest portion of the Tuna Belly. Super premium on the best part of the tuna belly.
Sashimi Platter
freshcut assorted sashimi, including sweet shrimp and fried shrimp head
Sweet Shrimp Sashimi
3pcs of Freshcut Sweet Shrimp Sashimi, served with Fried Shrimp Heads
Spain Bluefin Tuna Sashimi Assortment
3 Spain Bluefin Otoro cuts fattiest belly cut, 3 Spain Bluefin Chutoro cuts mid fatty cut and 3 Akami cuts leanest red meat. Great option to try the different cuts of a Bluefin tuna.
Premium Sashimi Platter
Everything on the regular Sashimi Platter, plus additional Chefs choice premium cuts. Includes 3 Sweet Shrimp, 2 Fried Shrimp Heads.
Very Belly Sashimi Assortment
3 Spain Bluefin Toro cuts, 3 Yellowtail Belly cuts and 3 Salmon Belly cuts. The best cuts of each fish.
Box Uni
A box of fresh Uni Sashimi for the true uni lovers!!!
Halibut Sashimi
5pcs of Freshcut Halibut Sashimi, served with daikon on shiso.
Salmon Sashimi
5pcs of Freshcut Salmon Sashimi, served with daikon on shiso.
Yellowtail Sashimi
5pcs of Freshcut Yellowtail Sashimi, served with daikon on shiso.
Tuna Sashimi
5pcs of Freshcut Tuna Sashimi, served with daikon on shiso.
Beef Tongue Y
1 skewer per order. Offered salted only.
Lambchop Y
1 skewer per order. offered only salted.
Okra Y
1 skewer per order. Salt or sauce.
A5 Wagyu Yakitori
A5 Wagyu imported directly cooked over Bincho charcoal for that nice smokey flavor.
Jidori Chicken Cartilage Y
1 skewer per order. Salt or sauce.
Shishito Peppers Y
1 skewer per order. Salt or sauce.
Jidori Chicken Thigh Y
1 skewer per order. Salt or sauce.
Jidori Chicken Wings Y
1 skewer per order. Salt or sauce.
Shiitake Mushroom Y
1 skewer per order. Salt or sauce.
Jidori Chicken Gizzard Y
1 skewer per order. Offered salt or sauce.
Black Cod Yakitori
tender black cod marinated in saikyou miso and grilled to perfection
Jidori Chicken Heart Y
1 skewer per order. Offered salt or sauce.
Pork Calbi Y
1 skewer per order. Salt or sauce.
Sausage Y
1 skewer per order. Offered salted only.
Jidori Chicken Negima Y
1 skewer per order. Jidori Chicken Thigh and Japanese Green Onion. Offered salt or sauce.
Yakitori
Sushi
Scallop Sushi
2 pieces per order. With wasabi.
Shrimp Sushi
2 pieces per order. With wasabi.
Spicy Tuna Sushi
2 pieces per order. With wasabi.
Unagi Sushi
Baked Eel. Topped with unagi sauce and sesame. 2 pieces per order.
Tobiko Sushi
Flying Fish Roe. 2 pieces per order. With wasabi. Flying fish roe.
Salmon Sushi
2 pieces per order. With wasabi.
Uni Sushi
Fresh Sea Urchin. 2 pieces per order. with wasabi
A5 Seared Wagyu Sushi
A5 Wagyu imported directly from Japan. Perfectly marbled with that tasty meaty flavor.
Sweet Shrimp Sushi
2 pieces per order. With wasabi.
Tamago Sushi
2 pieces per order.
Engawa Sushi
LIMITED QUANTITY ITEM! Please call restaurant for availability, before ordering. 2pcs. Fatty Halibut, seared with ponzu sauce. Topped with daikon radish and green onion. Includes wasabi in between the fish and rice.
Yellowtail Sushi
2 pieces per order. With wasabi.
Albacore Sushi
2 pieces per order. With wasabi.
Snapper Sushi
2 pieces per order. With wasabi.
Ikura Sushi
Salmon Roe 2 pieces per order. With wasabi.
Halibut Sushi
2 pieces per order. With wasabi.
Premium Chirashi
Chirashi Chefs choice of additional Premium cuts, and side tempura.
Chirashi Bowl
Freshcut raw tuna, salmon, yellowtail, white fish, and sweet shrimp. All on top of sushi rice, minced nori seaweed, and sesame seeds. served with sliced cucumber and avocado, ikura, spicy tuna, tamago, and fried shrimp head
A5 Wagyu Beef Rice Bowl
Perfected cooked A5 Wagyu imported directly from Kagoshima, Japan, served over rice. The ultimate rice bowl.
Yellowtail Bowl
Freshcut raw yellowtail, avocado slices, over sushi rice, nori seaweed, and sesame seeds. Plated with sliced tamago, shiso, greens onions, and spicy tuna.
Yakitori Bowl
6 Charcoal Grilled skewers Chicken thigh, wing, sausage, shishito peppers, shiitake mushroom, okra drizzled with our housemade Yakitori sauce, served over riced, mixed greens, nori seaweed, Japanese mayo, Kokuto sauce.
Salmon Ikura Bowl
Freshcut raw salmon, ikura fish eggs, and sliced cucumber. Served over sushi rice and sesame seeds. Side of ginger, wasabi, and shiso.
Oyakodon
Grilled Jidori Chicken, cooked egg, in soy sauce and a light stock. Topped with Nori seaweed and Mistuba leaf.
Spicy Tuna Avocado Bowl
Spicy tuna, sliced avocado, and mixed greens, served over sushi rice. Finished off with a drizzle of Japanese mayo, sriracha, and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Poke Bowl
Freshcut raw Salmon and tuna, diced avocado, tamago, and red onions. All tossed in our housemade spicy garlic soy sauce. Served over sushi rice and sesame. Topped with sprouts, seaweed salad, and tortilla chips.
Tuna Bowl
Freshcut raw red tuna, avocado slices, over sushi rice, nori seaweed, and sesame seeds. Plated with sliced tamago, shiso, greens onions, and spicy tuna.
SushiRice Bowls
Grilled
Miso Marinated Salmon Collar
Grilled Bluefin Tuna KamaCollar
grilled w sea salt and served w ponzu
Miso Marinated Salmon
Grilled Mackerel
Grilled Whole Calamari
Whole Calamari grilled over Bincho charcoal drizzled with Ginger Soy Sauce.
Miso Marinated Cod
Grilled Yellowtail Belly
grilled w sea salt and served w ponzu
Grilled Calamari Tentacles
70 grams of calamari tentacles grilled over Bincho charcoal drizzled with Ginger Soy Sauce.
Agedashi Tofu
Fried Chicken Wings
Deepfried Jidori Chicken wings with our house Kokuto sauce, and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Takoyaki
Deepfried octopus ball. topped with Japanese BBQ sauce, nori, and bonito fish flakes. Served with a side of Japanese mayo and pickled ginger.
Jidori Chicken Karaage
Freerange Chicken thigh deepfried in our seasoned karaage mix.
Shishito Pepper Poppers
Shishito peppers stuffed with spicy tuna and then deep fried tempura style. Drizzled with spicy mayo.
Bluefin Tuna Cheese Katsu
panko battered bluefin tuna and cheese
Shrimp Vegetable Tempura
Fried
Bento Boxes
Miso Cod Saikyouyaki Bento
Includes rice, salad, side dish.
Beef Teriyaki Bento
Grilled Beef Steak topped with teriyaki sauce, green onions and sesame. Includes rice, salad, side dish.
Chicken Karaage Bento
Jidori Deepfried chicken thigh. Includes rice, salad, side dish.
Miso Salmon Saikyouyaki Bento
Includes rice, salad, side dish.
Premium Sashimi Bento
2 Spain Blue Fin Toro, 2 Yellowtail Belly cuts, 2 Salmon Belly cuts and 1 Amaebi sweet shrimp
Ginger Pork Bento
Sauteed Pork Belly slices, caramelized onions, in our house ginger sauce. Includes rice, salad, side dish, and cabbage.
Shrimp Vegetable Tempura Bento
Includes rice, salad, side dish.
Chicken Teriyaki Bento
Grilled Chicken breast topped with teriyaki sauce, greens onions, and sesame seeds. Includes rice, salad, side dish.
Pork Kakuni Bento
Slowcooked Pork Belly in a sweet soy sauce, with a 12 cut hard boiled egg, spinach, and hot mustard. Includes rice, salad, and side dish.
Grilled Mackerel Bento
Includes rice, salad, side dish.
Pork Tonkatsu Bento
Deepfried Pork cutlet. Includes rice, salad, side dish.
White Rice
Plain Onigiri Rice Ball
Miso Soup
Mentaiko Onigiri Rice Ball
traditional style rice ball, with mentaikocod roe inside, wrapped in a sheet of seaweed
Salmon Onigiri Rice Ball
traditional style rice ball, with cooked salmon inside, wrapped in a sheet of seaweed
Plum Onigiri Rice Ball
traditional style rice ball, with ume plum inside, all wrapped in a sheet of seaweed
Brown Rice
Other
Cut Rolls
Salmon Avocado Roll
8pcs. Freshcut raw salmon and avocado inside. sesame seeds outside.
Tuna Avocado Roll
8pcs. Freshcut raw red tuna and avocado inside. sesame seeds outside.
Spicy Albacore Roll
8pcs. Spicy tuna inside. Seared albacore outside. Topped with our housemade creamy jalapeno mayo and sliced jalapenos.
Palm Springs Roll
8pcs. Crab, avocado, and cucumber inside. Topped with freshcut raw red tuna, and avocado outside. surrounded by fresh arugula and dates. Drizzled with our housemade spicy garlic soy sauce.
Dragon Roll
8pcs. Crab, cucumber, and avocado inside. Sesame, cooked eel, and avocado outside. Drizzled unagi sauce underneath.
Spicy Tuna Roll
8pcs. Spicy tuna, sprouts, and green onions inside. Sesame, thinly sliced red pepper strings, and schichimi sesame powder outside.
Crunchy Roll
8pcs. shrimp tempura and avocado inside. crunchy tempura flakes and unagi sauce outside
Cucumber Roll
8pcs. cucumber and sesame
Rainbow Roll
8pcs. Crab, avocado, and cucumber inside. Freshcut raw salmon, tuna, and yellowtail, with avocado outside. Drizzled Japanese mayo and unagi sauce underneath.
Philadelphia Roll
8pcs. Freshcut raw salmon and Philadelphia cream cheese inside. sesame outside
Veggie Roll
8pcs. Avocado, gobo, cucumber, kaiware inside. More avocado outside.
California Roll
8pcs. Crab, cucumber, and avocado inside. sesame and tobiko outside
Negitoro Maki Roll
Toro tuna belly and green scallions inside a traditional Japanese sushi roll.
Hot Blue Tuna Roll
8pcs. Spicy tuna and avocado inside. Seared toro, aburito sauce, and daikon radish outside.
Citrus Roll
Tuna, Salmon and thinly sliced lemon over a Yellowtail and Avocado roll. Very refreshing!!!
Caterpillar Roll
8pcs. Cooked eel and cucumber inside, with sesame seeds and avocado outside. served with a drizzle of Japanese mayo and unagi sauce underneath
Avocado Roll
8pcs. Avocado inside and out.
Spider Roll
5pcs. Whole Soft shell crab deepfried, kaiware, gobo, cucumber, and avocado inside. Sesame outside. Drizzled unagi sauce underneath.
A5 Seared Wagyu Cut Roll
Imported A5 Wagyu directly from Japan. Nice sear with that tasty meaty flavor
Yellowtail Avocado Roll
8pcs. Freshcut raw yellowtail and avocado inside. sesame seeds outside.
West Covina Roll
8pcs. Crab, avocado, and cucumber inside. Seared Salmon outside. Topped with our housemade orange pico de gallo salsa and cilantro.
Shigoku Oysters
Smaller in size but packs a punch in flavor from tidetumbled environment developing a deep smooth flavor profile.
Grilled Yellowtail Belly
Specials Limited Quantity Items
Salads
Seared Albacore Salad
Fresh mixed greens, arugula, diced tomatoes, red onions and kaiware sprouts. Topped with our beautifully seared Albacore. Served with Yuzu Ponzu dressing.
Sesame Cucumber Salad
marinated in shiokonbu super refreshing!
Seaweed Salad
House mix of seaweed salad, fresh arugula, mixed greens, sesame, and our housemade dressing.
House Salad
Mixed greens, including arugula, red onions, and diced tomato. served with a side of yuzu ponzu dressing
Salmon Skin Salad
mixed greens, including arugula, red onions, avocado, diced tomato, topped with baked salmon skin. served with a side of yuzu ponzu dressing
Spicy Tuna Pizza
crispy rice squares, topped with spicy tuna, sesame seeds, and sliced serrano peppers
Yellowtail JalapenoHabanero
Freshcut raw yellowtail sashimi, topped with your choice of sliced jalapeno or habanero peppers, and served with ponzu sauce
Gyoza Potstickers
Pan fried Gyoza Potstickers. Your choice of Pork or Vegetable. Served with ponzu dipping sauce.
Ankimo
monkfish liver, cucumber, nori, spicy radish, green onions, all served in a ponzu sauce.
Spicy Garlic Edamame
soy beans sauteed in our house spicy garlic mix
Edamame Salt
boiled edamame soy beans, lightly salted
Edamame Truffle
soybeans sauteed in truffle oil and soy sauce
Pork Kakuni
pork belly slowcooked in a sweet soy sauce. served with spinach, 12 cut boiled egg, and hot mustard
Starters
Hand Rolls
Cucumber Hand Roll
cucumber and sesame
Yellowtail Avocado Hand Roll
freshcut raw yellowtail, avocado, and sesame
Tuna Avocado Hand Roll
freshcut raw red tuna, avocado, and sesame
Spicy Tuna Hand Roll
House mix spicy tuna, green onions, sesame, and sprouts
Uni Handroll
Soft Shell Crab Handroll Min 2 Orders
soft shell crab from maine. minimum 2 orders.
Ikura Handroll
salmon roe handroll
Salmon Avocado Hand Roll
freshcut raw salmon, avocado, and sesame
Veggie Hand Roll
avocado, gobo, cucumber, takuan, and asparagus
California Hand Roll
crab, avocado, cucumber, sesame, and flying fish roe tobiko
Avocado Hand Roll
Crunchy Hand Roll
shrimp tempura, avocado, and unagi sauce
