zabuton

Despite the high demand, Smith won’t make more because the burger meat takes up valuable real estate in the dry-age chamber where he needs to store his prized — and more profitable — Japanese A5 wagyu rib-eyes and marbled zabuton steaks.

But the best value might be his $58 dinner for two deal: a ssam platter showcasing a slab of charred kalbi wagyu zabuton with banchan sides.

And it retained its familiar, deep-red carpet floor and upper-deck seats, although the mats along the mezzanine were missing their signature cushions — zabuton in Japanese — that would normally be used for prime seating all the way up to the sumo ring.

Pastenaga appears about midway through the 15-course parade of modernist plates, ahead of several seafood compositions and well after the wagyu zabuton steak that arrives on the heels of an opening array of snacks.

Sankei, a Japanese daily, even featured a story, complete with a photo of a flying zabuton, headlined, “Mr. Trump to watch the final day matches. Fear of zabuton.”