I’d like to highlight a new Japanese soba specialist called Sobar in Mar Vista that I think deserves everyone’s attention. In addition to the great food, I have to say I love the feel of this place. U-shaped counter like you’d see in Japan, beautiful wabi-sabi aesthetic and ceramics, and very chill atmosphere.
Food was very good- their soba noodles are made with 100% buckwheat flour which of course I forgot to take a pic of. Highlights for me beyond the soba were the kakiagi, karaage, pork belly kukuni, and inari, but it was honestly all very tasty and fairly priced when considering the quality.
I miss my rather middling-but-tasty-enough go-to Thai spot that was here, but the photos of what’s taken its place are doing a fine job at making me forget. Anyway, there are a number of other middling Thai spots in the area from which to choose so no big whoop.
I’ll have to try it again. Not that I dislike Ekkamai, just been defaulting to Celadon across the street. But to be clear, by “middling” I only meant in comparison to the top Thai Town joints.
Ekkamai has been our delivery option as well (unless we really want Natalee’s massaman) after House of Thai Taste changed owners a number of years back and the food quality went down. Don’t recall if we ever tried Celadon.
This article is making me question a lot of things. hah. I honestly don’t remember the Matcha salt and I definitely didn’t get instructions on how to eat my soba. In fact, I didn’t find Sobar that memorable and now I’m questioning if I liked it. I need to give them another visit now…
