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.

$15.40

Curry Napa Cabbage Salad

Shredded Napa cabbage tossed with curry ranch dressing topped with kidney beans and garbanzo beans.

$15.40

Green Beans Salad

Crispy boiled green bean tossed with sesame dressing serve on top of green lettuce and crispy won ton cup.

$13.00

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.

$15.40

Edamame

Freshly boiled green soy beans, served with natural salt from japan.

$7.00

Shiokara

Strongly salted squid and its guts.

$7.00

Takowasa

Chopped wasabi marinated chopped raw octopus.

$7.00

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.

$7.95

Hijiki Seaweed

Lightly pan fried hijiki seaweed and carrots with sesame oil, simmered in the broth of soy sauce and sweet miring.

$7.95

Zenmai-Ni

Stir fried flowering fern, carrots, yam noodle and bean curd simmered in bonito, soy sauce and mirin

$7.95

Potato Salad

Steamed and mashed potato, lightly salt and peppered, and add veg e mayonnaise. Mixed with lightly boiled onion, carrots and cucumber.

$7.95

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.

$7.95

Kabocha Salad

Steamed Kochab pumpkin in bite size block, lightly salt and peppered, and mixed with veggie mayo. Sweetness come naturally from Kochab pumpkin.

$7.95

Sunomono

Vinegar marinated cucumber salad with daikon radish, wakame seaweed and shrimp.

$7.95

Spinach Ohitashi

Lightly boiled spinach bunch marinated in soy sauce, sake, sweet mirin and bonito broth. Topped with shredded dry bonito.

$7.95

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.

$7.95

Zarusoba

Buckwheat noodle cooked and chilled in ice cold water. Served with homemade soda-tsuyu dipping sauce.

$16.40

Tororo and Okra Soba

Buckwheat noodle cooked and chilled in ice cold water, topped with chopped okra and grated yam potato.

$19.40

Tori Goma Soba

Buckwheat noodle cooked and chilled in ice cold water, topped with shredded sesame sauced chicken breast and cucumber.

$19.40

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.

$18.20

Tanuki Soba

Hot soba noodle soup of bonito broth topped with tempura crunch, green onion and wakame seaweed.

$18.20

Kitsune Soba

Hot soba noodle soup of bonito broth topped with soy-miring flavored bean card and wakame seaweed.

$18.20

Sosu Yakisoba

Stir fried egg noodle with cabbage, carrots and sliced pork. Flavored with Worcestershire sauce, topped with Honoria and bonito flakes.

$18.80

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.

$18.80

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.

$17.00

Butakim

Stir fried sliced pork, spicy kimchee, assorted mushrooms and boa cloy.

$16.40

Ebi Mayo

Tempura buttered shrimp fried to golden brown, covered with our original sweet chili mayo sauce.

$16.60

Kara-Age

J-style fried chicken. Skin and bone off chicken thigh pieces marinated in soy sauce, sake and ginger. Powdered and deep fried.

$16.60

Grilled Miso Salmon

Sashimi quality Atlantic salmon marinated in mi so and sweet sake mirin, then grilled to perfect.

$17.60

Katsuni

Tonkatsu lightly simmered in soy sauce, sweet mirin with onion, covered with half way cooked egg over it.

$18.20

Tuna Croquett

Minced tuna mixed with chopped green onion, ball shaped to breaded and deep fried. Served with shredded cabbage and daikon mayo sauce.

$17.60

1 lb Grilled Chicken

Bone-in whole chicken leg grilled to perfection, smoothed with spicy yuzu pepper paste

$24.00

Tonkatsu

Pork tenderloin fillet breaded and deep fried. Serve with shredded cabbage and tonkatsu sauce.

$17.60

Potato Croquette

Steamed and mashed potato, mixed with edamame soy beans. Ball shaped breaded and deep fried. Served with shredded cabbage and tonkatsu sauce.

$11.80

Asari Clam with Garlic Butter

Wok sauteed manila clam and assorted mushrooms with a broth of bonito, soy sauce, garlic and butter.

$16.40

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.

$13.50

10oz RIBEYE Steak with Japonaise onion soy sauce

$32.00

Tuna Sashimi

$16.60

Yellowtail Sashimi

$17.60

Salmon Sashimi

$16.00

3 Kinds Sashimi Assorted

Tuna, yellow tail and salmon. 3 slices each.

$29.00

"Blow Torched" Mackerel

Vinegar marinated sashimi mackerel blow torched at your table

$17.60

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.

$16.00

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.

$16.40

Yellow tail Sashimi with Sumiso Dressing

Yellow tail sashimi tossed with sumiso vinegar, mi so and mustard) and green onion.

$17.60

Albacore Tuna and Avocado Tartare

Chopped avocado, cucumber and tomato tossed with chopped seared albacore tuna sashimi.

$16.00

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.

$17.60

Salmon Fried Rice

Wok fried rice with grilled sashimi quality salmon flakes and green onion and egg.

$16.40

Soboro Gohan

Soy sauce simmered ground chicken and scrambled egg on fluffy steamed rice in clay pot. Good to share for 2people

$16.00

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.

$12.20

Steam Rice

$2.50

"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.

$9.40

MISO SOUP

$2.50

Rice