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TAKA-O (tak-kai-O)
Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar

HAS BEEN DESIGNATED THE

BEST Japanese Food
in San Clemente

There is something about the word "sushi" that portrays fun, and Taka-O Restaurant, San Clemente's BEST Japanese restaurant, is just that . . . fun! It is fun to be there and fun to eat there.

Taka-O owners Roger and Kelly Sugano have been satisfying customers' taste for great Japanese food for the past 27 years.

This unique restaurant has 4 distinct areas, a dining room, a sushi Bar, an upstairs sushi bar for private parties and a karaoke Bar.

The dining room is set up in such a way that you can choose your dining atmosphere from a cozy booth for 2, to a party size table for party size fun. They have an extensive menu that is bound to delight every taste bud. The dining room is open for lunch every day from 11:30AM to 1:30PM. The dining room is open for dinner Sunday thru Thursday from 5:PM to 10:PM. On Friday and Saturday, the dining room is open until 11:PM

The Sushi Bar, in the center of the restaurant, is as much social as it is culinary. In the evenings, 4 Sushi Chefs delight their regular customers and newcomers alike with the full spectrum of the freshest sushi and sashimi. Watching how much they enjoy preparing your orders is half the fun. The Sushi Bar is open the same hours as the dining room

Even more fun is to be had in the Karaoke Bar. People from all over come for the party like atmosphere to participate and hear amateur, and yet to be discovered great talents, in the Karaoke Bar. The bar is open every day from 5:PM to 2:AM. Karaoke starts at 8:PM, Sunday thru Thursday nights and at 9:PM on Friday and Saturday nights.

For the BEST Japanese food and great entertainment, stop in soon to discover for yourself why Taka-O has been designated the BEST!