Charcoal Skewers Grilled to Order in Midtown Manhattan

Yakitori Torishin runs on a single element, a long charcoal grill worked by cooks who fan the coals and turn skewers by hand. Sit at the pale hinoki counter and you watch the whole sequence, chicken threaded onto bamboo, brushed, and set over the fire until the edges char. Each skewer comes off at its own moment, and the tsukune arrives glazed and still steaming from the coals. A basket of shiitake, eggplant, and peppers waits nearby for the vegetable rounds. The room stays quiet and warm, built for slow eating rather than a rushed table. Reviewers land it at 4.5 across more than 871 visits, and it sits on West 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan.