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Restaurant I-NABA Torrance

A stylish Authentic Japanese Cuisine"- All Kinds. Inaba is located along Hawthorne Blvd., going south to 405, in the market plaza to your right. The restaurant is always full, both for lunch and for dinner. It is a stylish place of dainty flower arrangements, slanted mirrors and mustard-yellow teblecloths. Delicate banboo shades shield the windows. All you hear is hushed conversation and faint music at least when the sizzling deep fryer momentarily falls silent. This spare dining room is not the only place to eat here, though. Hidden by curtains is a private tempura bar for customers who advance-order lavish yorokobi-an dinners. Slightly worn blue curtains hang above the main kitchen, but not so low as to hide what the chefs are doing. Mostly, they are frying.

I-naba serves a wide range of hot and cold Japanese dishes as well as the obligatory sashimi first couse for those with more to spend. But crisp, clean-tasting tempura is teh main event here. It comes in elegant, complex set menus, you're supposed to work your way into tempura gradually (rarely, if ever, will you see a Japanese diner plunging directly into a fried food course).

If you feel adventurous, call a day in advance and order one of thoese yorokobi-an dinners (basically, Japanese tea ceremony food plus tempur dishes), which range in price from $40 to $70. As in any Japanese restaurant that serves tea ceremony food, it's impossible to predict what ingredients will appear in the meal, only that you can expect everything to be extremely fresh.


Restaurant I-NABA South Coast Plaza

Located on the corner of MacArthur and Fairview, Restaurant INABA South Coast stands conveniently close to South Coast Plaza. An authentic sushi menu has been added to the spacious and newly appointed sushi bar at Restaurant INABA South Coast. The restaurant’s modern, yet, traditional Japanese-style interior was designed by Tokuhiro Barada from Tokyo, who is also in charge of interior design for all INABA group restaurants. Both the Restaurant INABA South Coast branch and Torrance branch are dedicated to authentic taste, loyally keeping to the fundamentals of Japanese cuisine. They are serving the same taste of sushi that you can find at Sushiyoshi, the authentic sushi restaurant in Ginza, and tempura with the taste from Tenmaru, the best tempura restaurant in Ginza, Japan. At the newly remodeled South Coast INABA, the popular hand-made soba is being served daily, as well as good old Ginza no Youshoku (Japanese traditional western dish).

Ichimi-Ann Torrance

A New Healthy Fast Japanese Food - Noodle". This is a soba restaurant, where you eat standing, in downtown Torrance. Freshly ground soba (buckwheat) flour from Nagano, a produce of Shinshu, is delivered. This restaurant is really something you can rarely see here and where Japanese people miss the most. They are real quick to serve but the way they provide is sophisticated and original. Soba flour is imported by refrigerated container from Nagano, Japan and it is made into noodle every morning. They say good thin Soba has to be prepared quickly otherwise it would be socked. Other than Soba, they offer home style Japanese rice bowls.

Tsubaki-Ann Japonica Dining Redondo Beach

A Cozy Dining Bar "Japanese in Western Style". Japonica, which just opened in August of this year, is a unique restaurant bar with original interior and atmosphere. The first thing you will notice on entering the restaurant is the lightened liquor shelf.....

 

 

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