[Culver City] [Japanese] Tokyo 7-7 Coffee Shop
Tokyo 7-7 Coffee Shop
3839 Main St #B
Culver City, CA 90232
(310) 204-5728
Tokyo 7-7 Coffee Shop is a Japanese/American diner located in Culver City. I’ve been wanting to check out this small restaurant because I heard it was cheap. Since Dr. P and I both like Japanese food a lot, we wanted to try Japanese breakfast diner style. We went on a Saturday morning. Well, not exactly morning morning, we got there around 11:30am. We parked on one of the metered parking spot on Main Street and walked over to the restaurant. You can’t see this restaurant from the street. It is hidden in a little alley way.
The restaurant was quite busy. I like the little counter in the middle of the room. It’s very American-ish diner like, but the entire restaurant is ran by Japanese older ladies. It was somewhat of a “lost in translation” feeling. You feel like you are sitting in an American diner, but you are eating miso soup and rice so you feel like you’re in a Japanese restaurant, then you take a sip of the coffee then you feel like you are having breakfast in an American diner, then the Japanese old lady comes over and talks to you in Japanese because she thinks you are Japanese, and that made you feel like you are in a Japanese restaurant…… Anyway, you get what I am saying, right?
If you get to the restaurant before 11:00am, you get to have $2.65 breakfast. $2.65? In Culver City? Yes, $2.65! But we like sleeping in on a Saturday morning. Darn….
The lunch menu looks great as well. But we were really in the mood for some breakfast.
Coffee ($1.00)
Gotta have some coffee with breakfast. Just $1 a cup with unlimited refill.
Hawaiian Royal ($5.50)
An open-faced omelet with onions served over rice or with potatoes
Dr. P got the Hawaiian Royal, which is an open-faced omelet with cha-shu (BBQ pork), Portuguese sausage, and onions. You can pick rice or potatoes to go with your omelet. Dr. P got the rice. We really like the Royal omelet. The Portuguese sausage was yummy, but the cha-shu was a bit dry and hard to chew. Next time we’ll just get the Portuguese Royal instead. It was a very simple home-style omelet, and it just tasted so right on that morning.
Tokyo 7-7 Special ($6.10)
Cha-Shu, sunomono, tamagoyaki, miso soup & rice
I got the Tokyo 7-7 Special. The dish consisted of cha-shu, cucumber sunomono, tamagoyaki egg, miso soup and rice. The waitress also offered me some “Japanese mustard”, which tasted like wasabi but it wasn’t green (?!?). The cha-shu, just like the Hawaiian Royal, was a bit dry. It was ediable, but I didn’t like it that much though. The tamagoyaki egg was great. Cucumber sunomono was even better. And I realize that I really like having rice for breakfast.
Miso Soup
My breakfast also came with a bowl of miso soup. Rice + miso soup for breakfast = ^_^!
I really like Tokyo 7-7 Coffee Shop. Honestly, the food here will not make you go “wow that’s delicious”. It was more of a “that was a great home-cooked meal! Ahhh I miss my mom!” sort of feeling. The Japanese ladies were all so very nice and friendly. We will definitely come back again. Hopefully next time we’ll wake up early enough to get that $2.65 breakfast special.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Hawaiian Royal 好像蚵仔煎
May 8th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Wow this place is so close to me. I’ve never really tried Japanese style breakfast. I would give this place a try next time!
May 8th, 2009 at 10:05 am
sorry but the hawaiian omlette looks disgusting…
May 8th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
This looks delicious! I agree that the omelet doesn’t look ultra delicious at first, but after reading about all the different fillings it looks like it would be a wonderful taste. I like how they cut the tamagoyaki egg thickly so that you taste lots of the flavor from it!
May 13th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I never realized how cheap this place is! $2.65 for breakfast? I’ll have to check that out soon. But yeah, I’m not a morning person either