Definitions
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- noun A charcoal grill used to prepare
Japanese food to customers seated around the cooking area - noun A
restaurant featuring such a grill
Etymologies
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Examples
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The raw bar grill offers three kitchens — robata, hot and raw bar — that come together on its tapas-style menu.
Visit Miami WITHOUT Going To South Beach Huffington Post 2011
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Pick between the sushi counter, robata grill or dining room not the lounge bar.
Restaurant Week's extended course Post 2011
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Yes, it serves sushi, sashimi and familiar udon noodle and tempura mains, but the real draw here is that robata charcoal grill at the front of the restaurant, where the chef prepares his grilled kushiyaki skewers from under £2.
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The raw bar grill offers three kitchens — robata, hot and raw bar — that come together on its tapas-style menu.
Visit Miami WITHOUT Going To South Beach Huffington Post 2011
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A veteran of Georgetown's late Hisago and Japan Inn, Hironobu Higashijima, is among those behind the spark-throwing fire of the robata grill.
Best of two worlds at Kushi: Gastropub offers sushi, skewers 2010
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Aburiya Kinnosuke uses a robata grill to surprise lunch guests with atypical Japanese inventions.
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Which perhaps explains why, night after night of late, I have been sitting at a counter seat in this small, subtly charming restaurant, drinking sake and consuming vast quantities of skewered chicken, along with robata or sashimi, Kobe beef parts, and cup after cup of the best chicken soup ($3) ever experienced in the history of man.
Jay Weston: Jidori Chicken -- A Soulful Bird! Robata-Ya Is Where to Find it 2010
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Most dishes are cooked on a robata grill where cooks flavor fish and vegetables with a special fish broth and soy sauce mix as they grill items on skewers and planks.
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But I also appreciate the black-hatted tenders of the robata, who are just as nimble around the skewers and the grill stoked with slender batons of Japanese charcoal.
Best of two worlds at Kushi: Gastropub offers sushi, skewers 2010
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Arrivals pass through long linen noren to find a loftlike, putty-colored room dominated by a robata grill on one side and a sushi counter on the other.
Best of two worlds at Kushi: Gastropub offers sushi, skewers 2010
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