{"id":328,"date":"2003-09-24T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=328"},"modified":"2003-09-24T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T17:31:30","slug":"a-nice-japanese-restaurant-in-santa-monica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2003\/09\/24\/a-nice-japanese-restaurant-in-santa-monica\/","title":{"rendered":"A nice Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was in LA doing “on-site” work on The Ring,<\/i> I passed by a restaurant with a banner on it that said “Tokyo-Style Cuisine”. That interested me, so I tried it, and I really liked it. <\/a><\/p>\n

The restaurant is called “Musha”; it’s at 424 Wilshire Boulevard. What attracted me — besides the idea of trying a Japanese regional cuisine, even if only an urban one — was that the menu had different<\/em> sorts of things from what you normally see in a “mainstream” Japanese restaurant. What I particularly liked was the “shichirin” grilling, in which they bring you a little crucible of odor-free live charcoal and some beautifully cut meat or fish to grill over it, piece by piece, at your own speed. A pleasant way to wind down after a hard day’s script-bashing. The staff were friendly and helpful: the place has a comfortable, casual feel.<\/p>\n

Here’s Musha’s web page (in Japanese). <\/a> (A post at this discussion forum<\/a> suggests that this restaurant is an outpost of an older, bigger branch in Torrance.) For anyone who might be interested, I’ll link to a complete scan of their menu at some point. A .PDF file of its first page is here.<\/a> (Beware, the file is about 1.2 Mb.)<\/p>\n

And by popular demand, here are the other menu pages: page 2,<\/a> page 3,<\/a> and page 4.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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