Katsu-ya is located on Ventura Blvd, comfortably nestled in a trendy, high-traffic area amidst a plethora of other shops and restaurants. Roughly ninety percent of Katsu-ya’s customers are American and the restaurant is popular enough that celebrities of all types can often be found amidst its diners as regular customers. Also, Katsu-ya always boasts a lively dining environment that draws many patrons in, filling the tables all throughout the week.
The restaurant’s roomy layout is stylishly modern, as Katsu-ya takes pride in not only providing a delightful experience for all of its guests’ s taste buds, but also in providing similarly appealing stimulation to its guests’ visual sense through the atmosphere of its decor as well. This restaurant serves highly popular forms of traditional Japanese food as well as various other uniquely creative one-of-a-kind dishes. These unique entrees have been invented in the spirit of the current owner and chef’s personal ideology, which is to provide the locals of California with great-tasting and freshly inventive Japanese fare.
The secret to Katsu-ya’s popularity lies in the fact that guests can enjoy a deal called the Chef’s Special for around $50. Reservations are required in advance for this particular special experience, but it is well worth the efforts as, after holding a personal conversation with each diner in order to get to know him or her, the chef decides on the entrees he will serve depending on the diner’s personal tastes and preferences in food. If you want elegant Japanese-style cuisine that is unlike any other in the world, why don’t you trying dining at Katsu-ya?

Spicy Tuna Crab Corn: $9.80

Among the a la carte items, this is one of the most beautiful dishes. Fresh tuna and crab is dressed with a special homemade miso mayonnaise sauce and mixed with sweet corn before it is wrapped with a lightly fried, thin spring roll skin. The dish is served with lovely green wasabi-flavored tobiko placed on top. The vivid pinkness of the tuna and crab filling is a delight to the diner’s eye. Boasting a soothing texture as well as a perfectly struck balance of sweetness and spiciness and a wonderfully contrastive combination of moist interior and crispy outer skin, the Spicy Tuna Crab Corn dish is sure to become one of your familiar favorites.
As the name of this item suggests, the Seared Scallop with Pepper is a simple dish that combines seared scallop with delightful yuzu vinegar to bring out the natural good taste of the ingredients. A dish as uncomplicated as this is made possible purely by the fact that the chef can confidently rely on the freshness, natural flavor, and the high quality of the ingredients used to create it. The scent of yuzu vinegar is refreshing, while the combination of the pepper’s spiciness and the vinegar’s tanginess will arouse your appetite.
Seared Scallop with Pepper: $10.80
At the same time, the vinegar sauce draws out the natural sweetness and smoothness of the scallop, creating a complimentary harmony bound to delight.
This dish is perfect for the upcoming summer season, especially when served as an appetizer along with a chilled bottle of beer.