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Pad Thai Craven at Zen Admixture Lounge on Wednesday Dec. 16, 2015 in Schenectady, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell/Times Union)

Chicken bill blanket at Zen Admixture Lounge on Wednesday Dec. 16, 2015 in Schenectady, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell/Times Union)

Malaysian shrimp at Zen Admixture Lounge on Wednesday Dec. 16, 2015 in Schenectady, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell/Times Union)

Sushi baiter for two at Zen Admixture Lounge on Wednesday Dec. 16, 2015 in Schenectady, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell/Times Union)

Crunchy jalapeno cycle at Zen Admixture Lounge on Wednesday Dec. 16, 2015 in Schenectady, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell/Times Union)

Zen Admixture Lounge at 469 State Artery on Wednesday Dec. 16, 2015 in Schenectady, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell/Times Union)

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Zen Admixture Lounge at 469 State Artery on Wednesday Dec. 16, 2015 in Schenectady, N.Y. (Michael P. Farrell/Times Union)

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Restaurant review: Zen Asian Admixture Lounge

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Schenectady's State Artery has a air-conditioned burghal vibe at night: Those ablaze bulbs about the best Proctors marquee, agleam windows framing a army in Aperitivo and the bright bluff of Mexican Radio. As in Saratoga Springs, pedestrians arch city for a show, a accidental bite, a bottle of wine and, for some, the adventitious to activity like it's 1999.

That adventitious is beyond the artery from Proctors at Zen, an Asian alehouse that transforms into a club afterwards 10 p.m. Owner Andy Zheng prefers the appellation "lounge," a added airy cocktail concept, and it turns out the Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation involves little added than cranking up the volume, repurposing the sushi bar as a DJ berth and blame a few tables abreast to dance. Red clover ropes on the sidewalk ability announce queues and careful entry, but happy-hour prices, BOGO alcohol specials and $5 Ladies' Night activity are adulatory strategies to cull 'em in.

You could absorb time apperception on Zen's abounding name, Zen Asian Admixture Lounge, and its ancient moniker, Zen Mojito Lounge, afterwards accomplishing absolute clarity. It's Asian fusion, for sure, and a stylish, modern, pan-Asian restaurant feels appropriate on State Street. Windows amassed with cardboard lanterns and cardboard parasols chaotic from the beam advance a Chinese bazaar, but Zen leans afterpiece to Japanese, with bento-box lunches, hibachi, teriyaki, sushi and sashimi menus, and a sushi chef putting out conspicuously aesthetic creations.

Like the activated late-night dress cipher — no hats or billowing pants, amuse — Zen takes its flush actualization seriously. Zheng sees Zen as a restaurant first, but the huge cube-shaped, tube-lit bar and agilely clothed bartenders wouldn't be out of abode in a nightclub. And alcohol airheaded of dubiously flavored martini and mojito concoctions complete academy anxiety bells. The alterity amid identities is not clashing a mullet: business in the front, activity in the back.

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For the abounding experience, this appropriate a affected approach: A Thursday night catch blast blast amid after-work or theater-going diners and the Spandex army attainable for DJ DirtyDish at the end of his dishwashing shift. At 9 p.m., families with one or two accouchement were battle up aliment and leaving. By 10:30 p.m. we were trapped in a bar brawl, almost missing a hurled armchair to the head.

The all-embracing admixture card flits able amid cuisines, so Thai curries rub amateur with Malaysian satay shrimp and Chinese brittle duck. Sesame-bourbon craven wings are placed unapologetically beside brittle backtalk rangoons, bashed candy able of bed-making up booze. We abutting the affray by acclimation lychee and auto bead martinis and a blue-bottomed "pinacolada-tini" like a tableful of vacationing chicks. We scarfed ablaze and billowy tempura ($6) — abstruse shapes that could alert a name-that-veg bubbler bold — and wolfed bottomward ambrosial brittle shrimp that are blast blast by any added name. We slurped miso and augment soups, acrid but good, and plucked at a anxiously presented avocado salad. No surprises, all fine.

I could aerial on about the sushi administration afterwards leering afield at addition table's appealing plates. My chirashi ($16) accepted a simpler activity with a chef's best of beautifully beginning eel, white tuna, cockle and candied egg atsuyaki tamogo. The added table had maki rolls aggressive the ancillary of martini glass-like stairs and drizzled in article claret red. Dramatic, eh? A bit of beam doesn't hurt.

Among entrees, the aphotic amber red Thai attic back-scratch ($13) ability be accompanying to a brothy Cajun accessory with lashings of acidity and appealing heat, but coconut, bluntly the arch point, was adamantine to detect. Craven bill wraps ($8) access with greens the admeasurement of assistant leaves, absolute for alteration the neatly diced, soy-laced craven and the brittle mad coil of absurd bottle noodles whose abandoned amount is arrangement and, like all bubbler snacks, absurd to leave alone. Beef in red wine vinaigrette ($16) is harder to pigeonhole: Asian? American steakhouse? The adhesive coat is appealing abutting to the candied rib and addition blueberry booze that was all the acerbity aftermost summer and a ancillary of amber rice dials acidity down.

We ability accept rallied for desserts. Instead, amateurish plates and activity and a affray let us apperceive it was time to go. You needn't affront that ladies' night activity skewed the review. These ample drinks are the not the subtle, alchemic application of a citizen mixologist abating lavender in his palms. And admitting I rarely accelerate aback cocktails, I couldn't abdomen minty-grapefruit or apple-rum mojitos any added than face orange abstract afterwards toothpaste. But who am I kidding? We're not the ambition demographic of Zen's club cocktails. Our aggregation agreed our college-age selves ability accept begin it appealing fun.

Zen Asian Admixture Lounge is annihilation but Zen, but lives up to the blow of its names. As an Asian admixture restaurant the card is bargain and accessible, with artistic sushi chops. As a lounge it offers added cocktail airheaded and alcohol specials than you can agitate a stick at. It's a breach character with, hopefully, article for everyone. Take friends, eat and breach early, or be able for a well-lubricated backward night army back DJ DirtyDish is attainable to get down.

Dinner for four — including three starters, four entrées all with soup or salad, and six $5 ladies' night activity — came to $165.24 with tax and 20 percent tip.

Susie Davidson Powell is a freelance biographer from East Greenbush. Follow her on Twitter, @SusieDP. To animadversion on this review, appointment the Table Hopping blog, blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping.

Zen Asian Admixture Lounge

469 State St., Schenectady

Phone: 280-0388

Web: www.zenasianfusionlounge.com

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Cuisine: Sushi bar and a admixture card featuring Western-influenced and pan-Asian dishes.

Ambiance: Beautiful Asian restaurant, accidental abundant for ancestors dining and quick preshow eats. The amplitude is bedeviled by the ample bar and turns into a lounge/club afterwards 10 p.m. with a chic but boozy crowd. Thursday is Ladies' Night; DJ DirtyDish afterwards 10 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, DJ Dread on Friday nights. Dress cipher in effect. Summertime sidewalk seating.

Price: $$

Hours: Kitchen hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, apex to 10 p.m. Sunday. Bar closing time varies; usually accessible until 2 a.m.

Credit cards: All major.

Parking: Artery parking.

Handicapped accessible: Yes.

Price ratings for bargain eateries based on boilerplate of entrée costs:

$: $9.95 and less

$$: $9.95-$15.95

$$$: $15.95 and higher

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