Restaurant - Musha

Musha Restaurant
424 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 576-6330
Genre: Japanese

Musha is the kind of place you want to go to if you want to enjoy some alcohol and tasty food that comes in small proportions. I can see why some would classify Musha as a Japanese tapas bar.

Anyways, a picture is worth a thousand words, so several pictures therefore would be worth several thousand words. I will let the food do all the explaining, and interject as needed.

The Japanese-influenced cocktails are beautiful in taste and presentation. Just don't let the beer pitchers fool you; they hold a lot less beer than you would think at first glance.

You can order a seaweed salad at Nobu for 15 dollars, or something comprable for 6. Of course it's not going to be loaded with seaweed, but it does the trick.

Their signature dish is the MFC (Musha fried chicken), although I'm not 100% sure why. I mean, it's chicken, and it's fried -- perhaps the soft crust is what keeps many people coming back from more.

A much tastier fried dish is the pumpkin croquette, pictured above. Then again, with a few beers, the fried chicken COULD taste better...

And of course, you can't finish off a Japanese meal with some rice! Enjoying some salmon yaki-onigiri is indeed an excellent way to finish a meal.

Long story short, the food is indeed as tasty as it looks. The service is nothing to rave about, and while it can get a little dodgy during super busy times, they are never pretentious or condescending.

Expect to pay around $30 per person for dinner and a drink.