Zutto is at the helm of serious Japanese izakaya entrenching themselves in the city's scene. A welcoming space with a practical yet pleasing aesthetic, this "Japanese-American pub" as the owners like to call it, has long been a TriBeCa fixture. Contemporarily fit with wooden communal tables and exposed brick, there is ample space to lounge here, likely to a background beat of Billboard's best. While the menu meanders, a taste of such varied dishes as chuuka manjuu ( baos filled with tender, fatty pork belly and miso); or shoyu ramen, a dish native to the north of Japan and enriched with tofu and menma, will have you smitten. From pristine sushi like soft shell crab decked with fresh roe to negi toro with pickled daikon, the chef reveals fine pedigree.