Inaba Japanese Restaurant

My favorite hearty Japanese Udon / Soba / Tempura place in Torrance! Had tempura soba (hot) and marinated tuna bowl with plum sake and it was outstanding. Friends said cold soba was also really good, and agreed the tempura was impressive.

Wow, it's hard to find a good steak house. Here they're making a wonderful A5 Wagyu, best I've had so far. Get it medium well and enjoy. The sushi here was great as well. Recommended.

We have come here a few times and each visit has been great. The food is always fresh and delicious. Highly recommend making a reservation ahead of time. Definitely try the soba! They make it in house and it’s so good! My absolute favorite is the Asari appetizer. The flavor was amazing!!!!

Unbelievable experience, every single dish was perfect and excelled all of my expectations. The space is so quaint with a great atmosphere while watching chef create his art

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.

We got the tempura deluxe dinner to try all the different courses including fresh sashimi, hot fresh tempura, soba! The tencha was new to me and was so delicious!!

Showed up just as they opened for lunch. Within minutes the place was full. Received hot tea immediately. Ordered chicken teriyaki which came with a tasty little salad, miso soup, rice and assorted side dishes. All very good, the teriyaki was less sweet than expected which wasn’t a bad thing. Total for lunch including tip was $18.50, a good value, I will be back soon to try a sushi, tempura lunch.

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!

Very quaint (6 seats, at most) with hyper personal service (they adjusted my wasabi vs. everyone else in every bite). The appetizers are inspired and I had a number of fish for the first time (and I eat a lot of good sushi).

Bring your own saki (small charge) and parking is horrible in Manhattan Beach. Otherwise, an amazing experience with great personality!

Amazing tempura. Uni soba was okay so I wouldn’t recommend. Overall good price and attentive services. Recommend making a reservation ahead

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.

I ordered cold soba it was so chewy and crazily good! I’m definitely will come back to try all their menu

JAPAN 🇯🇵
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.

Favorite place to go with my mom. Nice atmosphere and great service. I recommend getting lunch here. The Bento boxes are very filling.

Such delicious food! The Inaba Bento Box comes with miso soup, rice, and salad. Was pleasantly surprised to find squid in the tempura. The sashimi was so fresh and tasty. Salmon was grilled to perfection. Also enjoyed the chicken and boiled veggies.

The Deluxe Bento Box costs more because it has grilled black cod instead of grilled salmon, and it’s so good! The fish was buttery soft and very flavorful.

Only 6 seats at the sushi bar, it's omakase for dinner & expensive but worth it. The chef Shin as we learned started learning 28yrs ago our of Jr. High. He's been a sushi chef at Matsuhisu, Sasabune and Q. It was great watching him make each piece, with half of them with fish from Japan or others prepared in a way I've never had. Definitely one of the best sushi meals I've ever had. They are waiting for their liquor license license so it's Byob which actually would reduce the avg price from any of the other restaurants I mentioned significantly.

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!

Soba and sashimi was really good! The place wasnt super fancy or exciting, I guess that helps keep price point accessible and stable.

Thank you sushi inaba for bringing omakase to Manhattan beach. By far the best sushi in the area, bringing authentic Japanese experience and taste to the table. Seats 6 people max and must reserve in advance. You won’t find a friendlier chef with chef Yasu.

Very delicious and authentic Japanese Soba noodle restaurant!