robata

noun

1. A charcoal grill used to prepare Japanese food for customers seated around the cooking area.

   countable

   Flames periodically shoot upwards from the robata grill in the open kitchen.

2. A restaurant featuring such a grill.

   countable

3. This style of cooking.

   uncountable

Where it comes from

From Japanese 炉端 (robata, literally “side of irori”), from 炉 (ro, “irori”) + はた (hata, “side”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry robata (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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