Just had an amazing dinner here. Service and food were both top notch. Had a variety of tempura dishes plus zaru soba and a few applies, all were amazing. We also had the tsubaki dinner set. The mini chirashi was perfect with seven nice pieces of sashimi, along with some fried fish and cooked tuna both in great broths + some other small sides. Great experience all around.
Showed up Saturday afternoon at 1 pm with a reservation, got seated immediately by lovely waitresses. They brought us hot green tea as default, which was very nice of them. I ordered the Kaiseki Lunch special that had everything that I wanted, starting with a salad, appetizer, sashimi, tempura, soba (or udon), some nigiris, and top it off with ice cream.
Salad was a very standard sesame dressing, sashimi was not the best but the snapper was very good. The appetizer had mozuku, duck, and Miso infused cream cheese.
Tempura veggies & squid & fish were cooked to perfection: crispy but very light on oil.
Housemade soba had a very nice texture, broth was a flavorful bonito broth.
Nigiris was the best, with tuna, snapper, yellowtail, scallop, uni. Very fresh and flavorful.
Will be back for more!
Victor Liu (LuxuryPV Realty)
+5
Usually one can tell from the Tempura immediately what quality food overall they may anticipate.
Light, fluffy and perfect tempura translated to a recurring theme for each item.
Ordered their premium Bento with miso, rice and ice cream.
Great value and delicious!
Fantastic lunch. Everything was prepared just right. The tempura was light and crispy, the cod was buttery perfection. This is not your average strip mall Japanese. The quality of food is high and the service is efficient and friendly. Highly recommended.
Soba and tempura are amazing. Sashimi quality and nothing less, it’s REAL good.
Soba is amazing, great service, enough parking space. One person walk in needs no reservations
Amazing tempura. Uni soba was okay so I wouldn’t recommend. Overall good price and attentive services. Recommend making a reservation ahead
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Excerpt from Eat the World Los Angeles:
If I-naba was in Japan, it would be in a small alley of a medium city, the type of place that has the usual regulars and a smattering of out-of-towners that have heard about it through friends. Because it is in Torrance, it resides in a medium-sized shopping center on an extra-wide boulevard, but still has the right feel once you take your seat.
At that seat, you will be the recipient of what feels like a spa day for your mouth. When a set of tempura, what I-naba is known for and best at, is placed before you, the royal treatment begins. In better times they have a repurposed sushi counter indoors set up for tempura only, and even do a tempura omakase, but for now it is mostly a la carte and takeout orders.
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