Tokyo 7-7 Coffee Shop

Really sad to see that it’s gone. Just saw that the restaurant is CLOSED. Man, I love the friendly Asian waitresses. Sorry to see Tokyo 7 – 7 go.

Sorry folks…
.again the BIG Boys have taken over the little guy.
Tokyo 7 – 7 Coffee Shop is G O N E !!!
(it’s been replaced by some yuppie bar-​scene lounge???)

It’s very sad to see my favorite business of all time closed. This place will always be a staple memory to my leaving home and going to college experience in Los Angeles.

I miss you!
Fun fact: My boyfriend ate the last meal they ever served.

It’s official, this place shuttered it’s doors on December 17^th for the last time. Tokyo 7 – 7 is no more.
Godspeed, cute little old Japanese ladies, Godspeed.

Dear Tokyo 7 – 7:
you were open for more than 30 years, and i was lucky enough to come and eat at your tables for about half that time. i brought many friends with me to enjoy your delicious menu, and all of them left as fans. one of them even became my boyfriend, then husband: thanks for always having a table for us to talk, reconnect, eat the chashu royal and the 7 – 7 special, and of course the extra sides of sunomono. and the vanilla shake.
i’ve never stopped loving you, Tokyo 7 – 7, and just because your time has come to an end now, i’ll still always have a special place in my heart (or stomach?) for you, my Japanese diner family. it has been wonderful to see how over the final week, so many of us came in to thank you, drop off cards and gifts, and eat one final curry rice. you were a neighbourhood oasis of friendliness and home-​away-​from-​home. we all wish you the very best!
Osewa ni narimashita! (rough translation: thanks for everything over the years!)

If you like hidden holes in the wall, this is your place. Definitely a place to escape… from reality. Or just the hustle and bustle of Culver City. Good variety of diner food, with a Hawaiian/​Japanese twist on some offerings. Large portions. And oh-​so-​friendly staff.
Crap, can we just delete this listing so no one else finds it? I want to be selfish and keep it to myself.

So, so bummed that this place is closing this week. I hardly knew ye!
Had the chashu royal omlette, which is an open faced omelte, over rice with a side of home fries. The eggs were slightly runny and the pork was slightly sweet with huge cuts of green and white onions. It tasted even better with soy sauce and tapatio, though I wish they had sriachia. Boyfriend had the curry rice with a fried egg on top with a side of home fries as well. So damn good.
If you’re reading this during the week of December 13^th, it is your DUTY to come to this place before it closes on the 18^th. I wish I had the time to come earlier and enjoy many breakfasts but alas, I had just one. Glad I had the time today to do so.

Love the whole in the wall atmosphere
Love the polite old japanese waitresses
Love the cheap prices
Love the fact that it is literally next to a large parking structure where parking is free for two hours.
My problems with this place root from their food quality and wait. Not saying their food is bad, but it is definitely not something to rave about. I had the hawaiian royal over rice, which was a nice variation to your normal pancakes and scrambled eggs breakfast, but outside of their royals, food is mediocre, and quantities are indicitive of their prices. I know I might be asking a lot to get a full plate of breakfast for 5 bucks, and I honestly am not, but what I didn’t like is their cha siu quality, their chicken teryaki quality, and the fact that they use lipton/​generic tea bags for tea. Just the small details, but I really have nothing overly negative to say about this place.
Will I come back? you betcha, but only if my appetite is small and I have some time to kill. Their burgers also looked like a good deal, 5 – 6 bucks gets you a burger with fries.
This place definitely has potential.

Tokyo 7 – 7 Coffee Shop is pretty much in the cut of Culver City. In between buildings and alley and next to a parking garage.
Park at the parking garage off of main and you’ll be able to find it perfectly fine. Plus that garage is free for the first 2 hours.
Once you’re in you’re like whoa hella old spot. It’s really small but they’re usually busy in the mornings. Only open from 6– I want to say 2pm? So since your parking may be free for the first two hours, if it’s really busy and you came with a group be ready for a little wait. You don’t really have an area to wait in either.
They have a little bar area where you can sit if you came alone, booths and tables for larger groups.
The food is might I say, delicious. A mixture of Japanese and American breakfast at STUPID CHEAP PRICES! You can order like 3 meals for yourself hahah. You might be coming back to this place more often. From omlettes, burgers, rice, hash browns, and even more traditional Japanese dishes, all very cheap and delicious.
The service is really nice and friendly. So if you’re in the area and are up early head out to Tokyo 7 – 7.

What is this weird little place? I really don’t understand this place.
On the outside, it looks like a run down random breakfast place where you would expect oily potatoes and the portion 3 times larger than I can ever imagine fitting into my tummy.
Once I entered this place, I was greeted by a few Japanese middle age cute ladies that brings you interesting Japanese style breakfast and American style Breakfast. The menu totally surprised me.
Cheap and tasty is an understatement. They serve breakfast entrees from 3 –8 bucks with over 40 items on the menu. I ordered the Japanese breakfast with rice, cha siu, egg, pickled cucumbers and miso soup. While I wouldn’t compare the quality to the breakfast I had in hotels in Japan, the fact that traditional Japanese breakfast is available in this culver city random spot totally blew my mind.
I like the food here because it’s not fatty /​oily. Few breakfast places impress me, and this is one of them. While I am not giving up my love for French Omlette anytime soon, I will definitely come here again for an alternative breakfast.

I am not sure what could be bad about this place. Let’s count the ways it’s awesome:
1. It’s dirt-​cheap
2. The 7 – 7 special is delicious
3. The décor makes you feel like you could be in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
4. Those little old Japanese ladies are the shit.
Who cares if the food’s greasy, the services is painfully slow and they’re cash-​only? The mere experience of coming here alone is worth at least a few stars.

Are you outta your mind? Breakfast for 2 under $ 10. And cute old japanese waitresses. Japanese diners rock. Especially ones that make you feel like you might be in another time, another place.
It isn’t the best meal in the world. But for less than $ 3 for eggs, bacon, home fries (potatoes on the grill) and 2 slices of large toast, I really am not complaining. I mean the eggs are fresh, the bacon is crispy and it doesn’t taste manufactured like Dennys.

Soul and bang for your buck. At Tokyo 7 – 7, you can get them both.
This diner is a small miracle. A tiny one-​story building surrounded by taller, newer structures that seem to bully it, relegating it to an alleyway without an entrance to a major street (Google maps will not really help you here, so just keep your eyes peeled for the alley. Enter on Cardiff.)
Once you find 7 – 7, you will discover a little Japanese American joint with wood paneling, a counter, a few scuffed tables, and well-​worn linoleum on the floor. There are baseball pennants, a photo or two of Ichiro Suzuki, and, bestill my heart, a B&W photograph of Full House signed by the entire cast.
You will eat like royalty if you have $ 10 cash in your pocket. Five of us had big, hearty breakfasts, coffee and orange juice and our bill was $ 36. For reals. The royals are essentially big omelet-​like scrambles. The Tokyo 7 – 7 special was mine: chashu pork, sunomono cucumber pickles, tamagoyaki, rice, hot mustard (good for a hangover), and really quality miso soup.
Our waitress and runner were kind and patient, if a little spacey (a few drink and toast mix-​ups, the orders didn’t all come out at once). But they wore those awesome Japanese housewife aprons, so it’s nearly impossible to get miffed at them. They were really sweet.
Some phrases for you to practice, then.
SUMIMASEN. Excuse me. (Good for calling over a server.)
OSUSUME WA? What do you recommend?
SUGOI! Awesome.
OISHISO! Looks delicious.
ITADAKIMASU! Let’s eat it!
OISHI! Delicious.
O-​KANJO. Check, please.
GOCHI-​SO SAMA. Thank you for the meal.
DOMO ARIGATO. Mr. Roboto.

I have only eaten here once so my stars are based on one dish. If I lived in the area I would definitely come back but would probably order the same thing.
The Tokyo 7 – 7 Special, only $ 6.10
Served from smiling, older Japanese women you get Miso Soup, Rice, Tamagoyaki (slightly sweet, rolled Japanese Omelet), Cha-​Shu (bbq pork), and Sunomono (pickled cucumber salad) & for $ 1 more, a hot cup of coffee. What’s not to love?
Definitely not your traditional eggs & bacon but the perfect alternative to a satisfying breakfast. Where can I find this in New York?

Thanks to the Unilocalers who guided us to this venue. Very basic breakfast + lunch. American + Japanese. Ridiculously cheap — CASH ONLY. In alley between Cardiff parking structure (2 hours free) + Main.
Sev got the Tokyo 7 – 7 special (tonkatsu pork, egg, miso soup, rice, cucumber sunomono) and I got Gyoza (6 gyoza, rice, lettuce salad, miso soup). MMMMMMM. We’ll be back.

We love this quaint hidden little spot nestled in an alley in downtown Culver City. We said it’s our new brunch place on Saturday. How can you beat breakfast before 11am at $ 2.95 for eggs, hash browns, and a meat product. We had a large brunch for three under $ 30! And that included coffee, Asahi, and wine. The place is so old and antiquated it makes you want to come back again and again. The waitresses are all older Japanese women.
Indeed vintage circa 1970s and cheap prices for a breakfast and lunch. The servings are huge too! Their menu is Japanese and American food combined.
We ordered the Chicken Soba, Vegetable Yakisoba, Vegetable Royal, Shrimp Fried Rice and drinks. Nice Saturday brunch and we will be back.

Eat here.
I had the Chicken Teriyaki. Super inexpensive but delicious. Best steamed rice I’ve had in a long, long, long time.

–Gasp– What? Someone dare give Tokyo 7 – 7 THREE stars? Yup, someone did. ME.
The positive stuff:
–Right next to a large parking structure that gives you TWO FREE HOURS of parking without validation. With validation, you get TWO extra hours. Yes, I was amazed at how easy the parking situation was.
–Really friendly people work here.
–Food was cheap and filling
–Lots of different things to choose from.
–Very clean place.
The negative stuff:
–Food wasn’t amazing enough for me to want to come back anytime soon.
–Waitress forgot my order of hamburger. WHY WOULD ANYONE KEEP ME FROM MY MEAT?! =[ =[ =[
–Water tasted kind of funny.
Yes, there were more positives than negatives but I am still not going to budge. Three stars because even though I thought this place was quaint, it was just missing that X factor for me. That special something that makes me want to come back time and time again.

Cut-​To-​The-​Chase: Cheap eats, good /​delicious food, good service.
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Long Review:
Tokyo 7 – 7 Coffee Shop was definitely one of the most bizarre coffee shop I’ve ever been to. Outside looks like a hole in the wall, inside takes one back to the early 80s, late 70s.
Today, my gf and I decide to give them a try. At 1:30PM we were hungry and I wanted cheap eats.
We walked in and the place turned out to the nothing of what I expected. As Americanized Japanese as I thought it would be, when we walked in, I heard waitresses speaking fluent Japanese with two of the diners. It was bizarre, yet I get a feeling of honesty (cost of food).
Gf ordered a cheeseburger and I ordered a tuna melt on rye. Both were nicely done. My melt came with a side salad and fries. The melt itself was hot and creamy. The portion was perfect, even though it didn’t seem enough visually, since most restaurant would serve huge ass portions.
With drinks and tip, the bill came up to be 15 bucks. It’s totally cheap eats, especially in Culver City and you can’t beat that. Their pricing is just honest. You literally pay for the food at cost + cheap labor.
Whatever you may call this place, Japanese-​white trash diner, little gem, this place is the place to go as I plan on trying out their ridiculously cheap breakfast.
It’ll take me a few more tries before they can earn my 5 star. Judging by today’s experience, I’d like to give them a solid 4 stars.
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