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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Torrance from the En Primeur Club guide.
Japanese restaurants in our guide cover tonkatsu, yakitori, tendon, mille-feuille katsu, izakaya and omakase. Pasta Stories in Torrance serves Japanese-Italian pasta. Kagura in Old Torrance serves traditional tonkatsu with premium cuts of pork and a well-sake selection. Hasu Izakaya & Grill in North Torrance pairs charcoal-grilled yakitori skewers with a sake selection. At WARAKU in South Bay, seasonal omakase sits alongside izakaya-style dining. Seafood comes directly from Osaka's central wholesale market, and the drinks programme includes sake and wine pairings. Kimukatsu in Torrance stacks thinly sliced pork in 25 layers for its mille-feuille katsu. Lunasia Dim Sum House in Rolling Hills Plaza serves all-day Cantonese dim sum and handmade dumplings. Madre! Oaxacan Restaurant and Mezcaleria in Torrance serves Oaxacan cooking with deep mezcal offerings and live music. Jana Mediterranean Coastal in Torrance / Carson holds a wine list with Mediterranean coastal dishes.
Japanese dining with clear drink programmes
These rooms show Torrance's strongest Japanese focus, from yakitori and tonkatsu to omakase and ramen. Sake appears often, and a few places add wine depth.
WARAKU
WARAKU in South Bay combines seasonal omakase with izakaya-style dining and seafood sourced directly from Osaka's central wholesale market. Its drinks programme includes sake, an extensive wine list, and sommelier-led expert sake and wine pairings.
Kagura
Kagura in Old Torrance focuses on traditional tonkatsu with premium cuts of pork and gozen accompaniments. The room pairs that format with a well-sake selection, beer, a standard wine programme and a set menu.
Izakaya Hachi
Izakaya Hachi in Torrance centres on binchotan charcoal grilling and precision yakitori technique, with a la carte small plates, counter dining and deliberate pacing. Drinks cover sake, beer and a standard wine programme.
Casual rooms for groups and broader menus
These picks cover dim sum, Oaxacan cooking, and a food hall format. They show the city's range beyond the Japanese-specialist rooms.
Lunasia Dim Sum House
Lunasia Dim Sum House in Rolling Hills Plaza serves all-day Cantonese dim sum and Chinese dishes from morning through evening, a la carte and family style, with a minimal wine programme and beer. The menu includes handmade dumplings and small plates.
Madre! Oaxacan Restaurant and Mezcaleria
Madre! Oaxacan Restaurant and Mezcaleria in Torrance pairs Oaxacan Mexican cooking with deep mezcal offerings, live music, brunch and happy hour. Craft cocktails and beer are poured, and the menu is served a la carte and family style.
The Brews Hall - Del Amo
The Brews Hall - Del Amo in Del Amo includes two breweries of its own, four food vendors and a bar in one hall. Beer and craft cocktails are poured a la carte, and the wine programme is minimal.
Planning FAQ
Which neighbourhoods matter most for serious dining in Torrance?
Old Torrance, Rolling Hills Plaza and North Torrance hold specialist rooms. In Old Torrance, Kagura serves tonkatsu with a well-sake selection, and Chado Tea Room serves over 200 kinds of teas. In Rolling Hills Plaza, Iccho is an izakaya with over 300 menu items, and Lunasia Dim Sum House serves Cantonese dim sum. Hasu Izakaya & Grill in North Torrance pairs yakitori with a sake selection.
How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in Torrance in your guide?
Torrance has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Kagura in Old Torrance serves traditional tonkatsu with a well-sake selection, WARAKU in South Bay serves seasonal omakase with expert sake and wine pairings, and Izakaya Hachi in Torrance specialises in binchotan yakitori with sake and a standard wine programme.
Where should I go for the strongest sake and wine programmes?
South Bay has the clearest drink depth through WARAKU, which lists sake, an extensive wine list, and sommelier-led pairings. In Torrance itself, Kagura, Izakaya Hachi, and Ise-Shima Restaurant all keep sake visible in the dining experience.
Which places in Torrance have the most developed wine programmes?
WARAKU in South Bay has the clearest wine depth, with an extensive wine list as part of its programme. Jana Mediterranean Coastal in Torrance / Carson and Depot in Cabrillo also have wine lists, while several other venues stay standard or minimal.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Where to eat in Torrance
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Chado Tea Room
Chado Tea Room on El Prado Avenue brings one of the South Bay's more considered tea service traditions to Torrance, sitting at a distinct remove from the area's dominant Japanese-American restaurant scene. The room's format places it in the specialist tier of tea culture rather than the casual cafe bracket, making it a reference point for anyone tracing the cultural geography of Los Angeles County's tea drinking habits.
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Depot
Depot occupies a converted train depot in Old Torrance, anchoring the neighbourhood's dining scene with a format that rewards unhurried eating. The restaurant draws a loyal local following and sits comfortably within Torrance's more considered dining tier, where the ritual of the meal matters as much as what arrives on the plate. Plan ahead: the address is 1250 Cabrillo Ave, Torrance, CA 90501.
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Gaetano's Restaurant
Gaetano's Restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway places itself in a stretch of Torrance where neighborhood dining rooms have historically held their own against the South Bay's flashier coastal addresses. The kitchen operates in a corridor that rewards regulars and walk-ins alike, sitting alongside a range of dining options that together define how this part of California's South Bay eats. See our full Torrance restaurants guide for broader context.
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Hasu Izakaya & Grill
Hasu Izakaya & Grill occupies a specific corner of Torrance's Japanese dining scene, where the izakaya format, small plates, grilled skewers, and communal pacing, meets the South Bay's appetite for casual but considered Japanese food. The address on Artesia Boulevard places it in a corridor that locals treat as a working dining strip rather than a destination, which shapes both the crowd and the atmosphere.
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Iccho
Iccho sits on Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance, a city whose Japanese-American community has shaped one of Southern California's most concentrated corridors of Japanese dining outside Los Angeles proper. The restaurant draws locals and visitors who know where to look, positioned within a neighbourhood scene that rewards exploration over convenience.
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Izakaya Hachi
On West Carson Street in Torrance, Izakaya Hachi occupies a position within the South Bay's quietly serious Japanese dining corridor, where izakaya culture has taken root far from the tourist circuits of Little Tokyo. The format here follows the communal, ingredient-led logic that defines stronger examples from the genre: small plates built around sourcing, sake poured at the right temperature, and an atmosphere calibrated more toward regulars than spectacle.
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Jana Mediterranean Coastal
Jana Mediterranean Coastal brings the flavors of the Mediterranean littoral to Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance, a South Bay corridor better known for pan-Asian dining than for olive oil and sea salt. The restaurant occupies a stretch of the 90503 zip code where coastal European cooking is a relative rarity, positioning it as a distinct option in a neighborhood where Greek, Levantine, and North African kitchens are genuinely thin on the ground.
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Kagura
Kagura occupies a quietly serious position in Torrance's Japanese dining scene, operating on Cabrillo Avenue where South Bay residents have long sought out focused, ritual-minded Japanese cooking. The format here aligns with a tradition that prizes pacing and restraint over spectacle, placing it in a different register from the izakaya-style venues that dominate the neighbourhood's Japanese offerings.
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Kimukatsu
Kimukatsu brings the specialized craft of Japanese tonkatsu to Torrance, a city whose Japanese-American dining scene runs deeper than most of coastal Southern California. The format is narrow by design: pork cutlets layered and fried to a precise standard, served in a spare setting where the cooking is the entire argument. In a South Bay corridor that rewards this kind of focused Japanese cooking, Kimukatsu earns its place.
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Lunasia Dim Sum House
Book Lunasia Dim Sum House for casual Cantonese dim sum in Torrance when the priority is group-friendly value over formal service. The all-day format, casual dress code, on-site lot parking, and roughly $20-per-person pricing make it especially useful for family meals, brunch, and low-key celebrations.
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Pasta Stories
Pasta Stories is worth it for a quick, casual Japanese-Italian pasta stop in Torrance, especially if you want something more specific than standard food-court fare. Go for the regional pasta concept, keep expectations casual, and order across signatures like Osaka Wagyu Beef Meat Sauce, Kyoto Matcha Cream, or Yokohama Napolitan Spaghetti.
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Scardino's
A Torrance neighborhood fixture on Torrance Boulevard, Scardino's draws a loyal local following that returns not for novelty but for consistency. In a South Bay dining scene pulled increasingly toward fast-casual formats and regional chain outposts, it holds a quieter position: the kind of place regulars treat as an extension of their own kitchen, without the cooking.
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Tendon Tempura Carlos Jr
Go for the tendon tempura rice bowl, mixed tempura set, shrimp tempura bowl, or tempura over soba; skip it if the night needs a drinks program, private dining, or a dressed-up room.
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The Brews Hall - Del Amo
Beer Hall Format in the South Bay: What Del Amo Circle Signals The beer hall as a dining format has made a quiet but durable return across American cities over the past decade. Not the studied craft-taproom model aimed at hop-obsessed regulars...
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Torikizoku
Torikizoku on Hawthorne Boulevard sits inside Torrance's dense cluster of Japanese dining options, where yakitori-style formats have carved a loyal following among diners who prefer the grill over the sushi counter. The address places it alongside a corridor of Japanese-adjacent venues that collectively reflect the South Bay's deep ties to Japanese food culture. Expect a focused menu built around skewered chicken in a casual, counter-friendly setting.
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WARAKU
On West Carson Street in Torrance, WARAKU operates in a South Bay corridor that has quietly developed one of greater Los Angeles's more concentrated pockets of Japanese dining. The address places it within reach of a neighbourhood defined as much by its working Japanese-American community as by its restaurants, making the context as informative as the food itself.
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Ise-Shima Restaurant
On South Western Avenue in Torrance, Ise-Shima Restaurant occupies a corner of Los Angeles County's most concentrated Japanese dining corridor. The address places it within easy reach of the South Bay's established Japanese-American community, where neighborhood familiarity and culinary tradition tend to count for more than marquee credentials. A practical stop for those tracing the area's Japanese dining circuit.
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Josui Ramen
Josui Ramen sits on Artesia Boulevard in Torrance, a corridor that has quietly become one of Southern California's more concentrated pockets of Japanese dining. The address places it inside a neighborhood where ramen is taken seriously, and where regular clientele tend to know the difference between broths built over hours and those assembled from shortcuts.
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Sushi Yoshi
Sushi Yoshi sits on Artesia Boulevard in Torrance, a corridor that has quietly accumulated some of the South Bay's most serious Japanese dining. Positioned within a neighborhood where izakaya counters and ramen shops set the baseline, this spot draws regulars who come for focused Japanese preparation rather than spectacle. Check directly for current hours and booking availability before visiting.
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