[10] Tanuki also served fermented noodles,[11] trout in a seaweed butter sauce, kimchi macaroni and cheese, duck heart, various seafood dishes,[12] and buns with kimchi, blue cheese, and sake-cured bacon.

[5][16] In 2011, the restaurant relocated to Stark Street in the southeast Portland part of the Montavilla neighborhood.

[17] Suffering from a seafood allergy,[18] Martin closed Tanuki permanently in 2019 and began working at East Glisan Pizza Lounge.

[19] In 2012, Karen Brooks and Rachel Ritchie included Tanuki in Portland Monthly's "Best of the Rest", a list of 35 local eateries "that should remain in any food lover's regular rotation".

[21] In 2016, Time Out included Tanuki in a list of the eighteen best Japanese restaurants in the United States.