M Izakaya

M Izakaya is a Japanese restaurant at Fenton in Cary. The room is deliberately spare: matte stone-gray walls, low-backed black chairs, and lighting kept dim enough to leave the mind clear.

The design grew out of the limits of the space itself, and the result reads like a vault-like den holding a menu of ingredients waiting to be dug into. It is one of the restaurants run by the M Restaurants group, and the staff works to keep a meal moving easily from one plate to the next.

What to know

• Online ordering is set up for both pickup and delivery.
• The restaurant takes bookings for groups and parties, with menus built around the occasion.
• Large takeout orders of sushi and seafood can be arranged for an event.
• The kitchen centers on sushi, with an emphasis on quality and freshness in each piece.