Osaka, Washington, DC (restaurant)

Name:Osaka
Type:restaurant
Street:1329 Conn. Ave.
City:Washington
State:DC
Zip:
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct

Description:
I never heard of this place before until I found a Moai mug with the OSAKA name and address on it. There are few random posts about this place on Tiki Central and a Bug Eyed Moai mug on Ooga Mooga but not much info. I thought it was just a straight forward Japanese Restaurant but a couple weeks later a menu appeared on ebay. The menu seems to show a full on Tiki drink menu. Pretty cool!

Here's the straight forward OMC Wood Grain Maoi mug

And here's a Bug Eyed Moai mug from Ooga Mooga (courtesy of eab21)

interesting... not too far (4 blocks) from junkanoo... i wonder if they were contemporary rivals.

thanks for the info! adding it to my roster of dc tiki locations! :D

ADDENDUM: while looking up the tahitian hut in alexandria in the historic papers online, i found that that location and Osaka were contemporaries - this is from February 4, 1973:

[ Edited by: johnny dollar 2013-12-29 18:39 ]

Spotted this nice printed matchbook from the Osaka.

They served it all!

DC

No recollection of the place. Seems to have been Pan-Asian long before it was cool.