Cloak and Petal Little Italy in downtown San Diego's Little Italy opened in 2018 on India Street, building a Japanese social dining lounge inside a space designed to replicate an abandoned Tokyo subway station complete with an indoor cherry blossom tree overhanging the center bar. The sushi program runs a 16-piece platter with belly-cut upgrades alongside Japanese small plates — A5 wagyu tartare, hamachi crudo in ponzu-yuzu, elk sashimi with lemongrass — and a craft cocktail bar whose Japanese whisky and sake selections operate in a different register from the American-spirit mixology at Craft & Commerce elsewhere downtown. A rear expansion called Shibuya Nights debuted in June 2022 with neon-drenched Harajuku-inspired decor, adding a second lounge concept within the same venue. The current executive chef brought more than 20 years of sushi experience to the kitchen from Sushi on the Rock, sharpening the raw-fish program with traditional technique under the graffiti-covered subway-tile walls. The back room also houses a dedicated Japanese whisky and sake bar behind a gate, a concealed lounge-within-a-lounge format that echoes the hidden-entrance approach at Noble Experiment in the Gaslamp corridor. Full-venue catering packages build omakase-style tasting menus around the nigiri program, wagyu courses, and sake flights for private events across both the main dining room and Shibuya Nights lounge.