Bar Otaku has ceased operations in The Gulch, likely the latest restaurant and bar victim of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The closing comes about 1.5 years after the restaurant, which focused on a traditional Japanese izakaya presentation, opened as a replacement for Little Octopus.
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