Takuma Menu (Update 2025)
Introducing the Menu at Takuma
Takuma, an iconic izakaya nestled in Santa Monica, offers a delightful exploration of flavors with its diverse menu designed for everyone. As a food reviewer, I was captivated by their emphasis on freshness and quality, reflecting in dishes like the Albacore Tuna Salad with crispy lotus root chips and the savory Curry Napa Cabbage Salad that adds a twist to traditional tastes.
Vegetarian options abound, with standout items like the Avocado and Tofu Salad, which features rich roasted sesame dressing. For small bites, the Kinpira Gobo and Marinated Tofu delight the palate while promoting a conscious dining experience, thanks to Takuma's commitment to sustainable practices.
With its relaxing ambiance and attention to dietary needs—such as pescatarian and vegetarian choices—Takuma encapsulates the warmth and vibrancy of izakaya culture, making it an ideal destination for friends and families alike.
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Albacore Tuna Salad
Seared albacore tuna tossed with greens, carrots, chopped cucumber, chopped tomato, and daikon sprout, topped with crispy lotus roots chips.
Curry Napa Cabbage Salad
Shredded Napa cabbage tossed with curry ranch dressing topped with kidney beans and garbanzo beans.
Green Beans Salad
Crispy boiled green bean tossed with sesame dressing serve on top of green lettuce and crispy won ton cup.
Avocado and Tofu Salad
Extra soft tofu and avocado on top of fluffy greens, covered with roasted sesame dressing and topped with crispy roasted green peas crunch and kidney beans.
Edamame
Freshly boiled green soy beans, served with natural salt from japan.
Shiokara
Strongly salted squid and its guts.
Takowasa
Chopped wasabi marinated chopped raw octopus.
Salad
Small Bite
Kinpira Gobo
Julian cut burdock roots and carrots stir fried with sesame oil, flavored with soy sauce, sweet miring and spangle of sesame seed.
Hijiki Seaweed
Lightly pan fried hijiki seaweed and carrots with sesame oil, simmered in the broth of soy sauce and sweet miring.
Zenmai-Ni
Stir fried flowering fern, carrots, yam noodle and bean curd simmered in bonito, soy sauce and mirin
Potato Salad
Steamed and mashed potato, lightly salt and peppered, and add veg e mayonnaise. Mixed with lightly boiled onion, carrots and cucumber.
Marinated Tofu
Lightly potato starch and fried tofu, marinated in the sauce of sesame oil, soy sauce and vinegar. Topped with chopped tomato, cucumber and Masai radish pickles.
Kabocha Salad
Steamed Kochab pumpkin in bite size block, lightly salt and peppered, and mixed with veggie mayo. Sweetness come naturally from Kochab pumpkin.
Sunomono
Vinegar marinated cucumber salad with daikon radish, wakame seaweed and shrimp.
Spinach Ohitashi
Lightly boiled spinach bunch marinated in soy sauce, sake, sweet mirin and bonito broth. Topped with shredded dry bonito.
Marinated Japanese Eggplant
Lightly fried Japanese eggplant marinated in the broth of bonito, soy sauce and sweet sake mirinn. Topped with chopped green onion and shredded leek.
Zarusoba
Buckwheat noodle cooked and chilled in ice cold water. Served with homemade soda-tsuyu dipping sauce.
Tororo and Okra Soba
Buckwheat noodle cooked and chilled in ice cold water, topped with chopped okra and grated yam potato.
Tori Goma Soba
Buckwheat noodle cooked and chilled in ice cold water, topped with shredded sesame sauced chicken breast and cucumber.
Sozai
Cold Soba Noodle
Hanamaki Soba Tokyo Style
Asakusa, Tokyo style hot soba noodle soup of bonito broth, filled with dry seaweed and grated daikon radish.
Tanuki Soba
Hot soba noodle soup of bonito broth topped with tempura crunch, green onion and wakame seaweed.
Kitsune Soba
Hot soba noodle soup of bonito broth topped with soy-miring flavored bean card and wakame seaweed.
Sosu Yakisoba
Stir fried egg noodle with cabbage, carrots and sliced pork. Flavored with Worcestershire sauce, topped with Honoria and bonito flakes.
Shio-Kouji Yakisob
Stir fried egg noodle with cabbage, carrots and sliced pork. Flavored with fermented salty rice and, topped with Honoria and bonito flakes.
Hot Soba Noodle
Yakisoba
Kakuni
6hr simmered pork belly, flavored with soy sauce, sweet miring and sake, accompanied by hard-boiled egg and steamed potato.
Butakim
Stir fried sliced pork, spicy kimchee, assorted mushrooms and boa cloy.
Ebi Mayo
Tempura buttered shrimp fried to golden brown, covered with our original sweet chili mayo sauce.
Kara-Age
J-style fried chicken. Skin and bone off chicken thigh pieces marinated in soy sauce, sake and ginger. Powdered and deep fried.
Grilled Miso Salmon
Sashimi quality Atlantic salmon marinated in mi so and sweet sake mirin, then grilled to perfect.
Katsuni
Tonkatsu lightly simmered in soy sauce, sweet mirin with onion, covered with half way cooked egg over it.
Tuna Croquett
Minced tuna mixed with chopped green onion, ball shaped to breaded and deep fried. Served with shredded cabbage and daikon mayo sauce.
1 lb Grilled Chicken
Bone-in whole chicken leg grilled to perfection, smoothed with spicy yuzu pepper paste
Tonkatsu
Pork tenderloin fillet breaded and deep fried. Serve with shredded cabbage and tonkatsu sauce.
Potato Croquette
Steamed and mashed potato, mixed with edamame soy beans. Ball shaped breaded and deep fried. Served with shredded cabbage and tonkatsu sauce.
Asari Clam with Garlic Butter
Wok sauteed manila clam and assorted mushrooms with a broth of bonito, soy sauce, garlic and butter.
Okonomiyaki
Savored Japanese pancake. Sliced pork, chopped cabbage, red ginger and dried shrimp mixed in the butter of flower, egg and grated yam potato. Topped with thick okonomi sauce, Honoria, shredded bonito flakes.
10oz RIBEYE Steak with Japonaise onion soy sauce
Tuna Sashimi
Yellowtail Sashimi
Salmon Sashimi
3 Kinds Sashimi Assorted
Tuna, yellow tail and salmon. 3 slices each.
"Blow Torched" Mackerel
Vinegar marinated sashimi mackerel blow torched at your table
Salmon Sashimi with Neg i-Shio Dressing
Salmon sashimi with neg i-shio chopped green onion and grated sesame seeds, mixed with soy sauce, ponzu and sesame oil topped with chopped green onion.
Spicy Tuna Dip
Minced tuna mixed with takuma original blend spicy mayo sauce, topped with green onion. Served with crispy rice crackers. Hot and spicy.
Yellow tail Sashimi with Sumiso Dressing
Yellow tail sashimi tossed with sumiso vinegar, mi so and mustard) and green onion.
Albacore Tuna and Avocado Tartare
Chopped avocado, cucumber and tomato tossed with chopped seared albacore tuna sashimi.
Something Hot
Sashimi Raw Seafood
Scallop Brown Rice Risotto
Carefully slow cooked brown rice with creamy lobster broth and scallop in sizzling hot stone bowl and topped with freshly shaved Parmesan cheese.
Salmon Fried Rice
Wok fried rice with grilled sashimi quality salmon flakes and green onion and egg.
Soboro Gohan
Soy sauce simmered ground chicken and scrambled egg on fluffy steamed rice in clay pot. Good to share for 2people
Ochazuke
U me plum or kombu seaweed broth of kelp and light colored soy sauce serve over steamed rice. Topped with rice crunch, nor. Green onion and your choice of ume or kombu.
Steam Rice
"TON-JIRU" PORK and RADISH MISO SOUP
Daikon radish, carrots, shredded burdock roots and sliced pork cooked in mi so bonito broth, a drop of sesame oil.