At Kushi Bar, they serve a variety of small dishes, rice bowls and salads. To start, we ordered: the rice balls, which were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a slightly sweet sauce; little skewers of mushrooms that tasted very meaty, almost like a fatty pork; and their sweet potato fried, thickly cut and served with a variety of sauces including a very spicy one.
For dinner, I had the inari rice bowl which was small bites of the tofu packets used to make inari, slighly sweetened rice, crispy bits of tempura and just the right amount of thin, delicate sprouts. I had never thought of using inari packets in other ways, but it was absolutely brilliant. Kushi bar should be on your list if you are visiting Madison.