Best Restaurants with a Tasting Menu in Hawthorne / Gardena

My last two meals were different sizes of the rib eye steak. Both time I ordered it medium and both times it was medium rare. Also, neither was a particularly good cut; not nearly as tasty as the top sirloin that I usually order.

The food and service are exceptional (as you would expect). Biscuits are to die for, skirt steak and ribeye, cooked perfect. Green beans spicy and flavorful. For some reason, the acoustics in dining room aren’t so good to listen to dinner companions. Other than that ambience is great with good lighting, beautiful ferns and plants. Only build for January would be to offer some mock-tails or NA beer (dry January). There is no menu for cocktails, but when I asked the waiter if he had one, he told me the bartender could whip something up. He came back with a NA spritz which was delicious!

Christmas Dinner at Manpuku is truly the best way to celebrate and end the year!! My two daughters and I really enjoyed this special night consisting of two orders of the Prime Beef Course plus additional Pork Belly with Sanchu Lettuce, Marinated Chicken Breast and Thighs, Tokyo Prime Beef Tongue, Assorted Mushrooms, Manpuku Salad and Garlic Cloves. I must say that the Prime Course is a super deal at $69 per person and the five cuts of beef plus shrimp are pure quality and tenderness!! Comes with Spicy Soup, Assorted Kimchee, Bean Sprouts, Cabbage Salad, Stone Pot Garlic Rice and dessert…..WOW!! And I washed it all down with four ATF brew Asahi Super Drys on tap!! Best of all, hats off and truly appreciate hard working Japanese gals Risa and Nasa plus the back of the house gang and dude manager-san for showing up on Christmas!!!

My all time favorite yakitori place. Great food, great service. Parking sucks

Had a great time last Friday. Food was great and we topped it off with the dessert as well. Definitely would recommend to lovers of Japanese bar cuisine.