Takuma

Staff
Verify nice and kind
Owner chef
Very nice guy and friendly
Food
Many different kind of delicious Japanese cuisine
Price
Very reasonable
Location
Nice place and comfortable inside

I like this restaurant a lot. I do recommend Takuma.

"Takuma" Santa Monica (26th & Wilshire): quite good!!! Japanese food delicious, and varied. Service attentive, timely, polite; & the price is a good value.

I had fun here. It was quiet and the food tasted very nice. I'm a sashimi fan, but whenever I'm in Santa Monica again I would like to visit again and try other things on the menu. If I was staying in Santa Monica rather than elsewhere in the LA area, I'd love to try sake with the food, but I was unable to drink last time because I was driving.

Server was perfect, food was great. Someone we hadn't seen prior (busgirl?) Came to clear our plates which still contained food, while we were still eating which was kind of rude and weird. We weren't lingering and they weren't busy. Strange. Otherwise great,

I don't really understand all the great reviews. Very expensive for the amount of food you get considering the quality... I expected a $16 plate to have incredibly tender melt in your mouth meat if it's only 3 thing slices, and it cooks at your table. Best thing we had were the little chicken meatballs (6 quarter size meatballs sets you back $10). It was tasty yes, but overpriced for the quality of the cook on the 3 plates we had.

Maybe we were just there at a bad time? Perhaps the cook is usually fantastic and the meat is melt in your mouth. Others say the servers and owner are super friendly and make you feel right at home but we didn't not experience that (the owner was not in evidence, probably home enjoying his evening!), The service was good but not terribly friendly and we felt a bit forgotten.