The Loft - Torrance

The roasted speck rice dish was truly excellent. The specks were perfectly cooked and added a delicious flavor to the dish. I will definitely be returning to this restaurant soon.

The food is good, don't get me wrong, but the portions for the price could be better. The Korean plate costs over $20 and comes with a large portion of rice and possibly a small, thin piece of meat that barely covers the mound of rice. This was the highlight, so I can only imagine how small the regular or small portion is. It felt like I was ripped off. I've never had issues with this restaurant before, but this experience was bad enough to warn others about the changes happening at this place.

The service at this restaurant was simply terrible. When we arrived, there were only two other tables that had already finished their meals. It took 25 minutes for our barely warm food to arrive at our table, during which time the servers seemed more focused on chatting and unsure of what to do next. It was frustrating to witness the lack of coordination and communication among the staff. We will not be returning.

Do not expect this to be a nice sitdown restaurant as they used to have on Hawthorne, although the prices are as high as it was, now it has a fast food look but if you don't care about ambiance go to L and L Hawaiian Bar B Que a little further north at the Home Depot shopping center on Crenshaw, their prices would be cheaper, more variety of dishes, a little bit more decoration and week old Hawaiian papers. In fact if you want a place with nice ambiance AND food that is cheaper make an effort to go to Back Home in Lahaina in Carson, the only other with atmosphere like that is King's Hawaiian, which also doesn't seem like a fast food joint as most restaurants which serve Hawaiian food are, if only, Back Home offered a loyalty club like King, which gives you discounts and lovely birthday meal to it's members, sigh.Usually I read reviews, but I had a b'day coupon for King's Hawaiian Bakery Res./Local Place and because I like Dole Whip which they only sell at Local, went there and they had run out of the oxtail soup and this is at 1 PM and they only serve it two days a week!! I asked them to call Sepulveda location, they did and they had oxtail there but forgot to ask as to how long a wait, well we went there, got nervous as parking lot VERY crowded and a lot of people outside and the wait was 45 min, so left. Thought that this restaurant was the Loft at Lahaina, (got two mixed up) when I googled Hawaiian restaurants near Torrance, Back Home did not show up and this did, so since I was going in that direction went there and when I got here, the interior was so stark (and no customers, a bad sign) that I wanted to turn around and leave but since it was the THIRD restaurant we went to with a first date, too embarrassed to change again, but wish I did and not just have Hawaiian that day. As many have said, place is uncomfortable, chairs are like that in shopping carts when you were a kid (except shopping cart seats had padding), and as it was a cool day, did not notice lack of air conditioning, do they make it like that and so plain looking to get you out quickly, WHY???. as one previous reviewer said, this is NOT a place you need to wait to get a table. Although one other table had people, took incredibly long time to get order and food is NOTHING special and doesn't have some authentic dishes like lau lau, lomi lomi salmon. Gave it two stars as waitress was VERY nice.

Mediocre food, high prices. Chicken did not have ANY seasoning whatsoever. Shredded pork looks like it came out of a can. Macaroni salad would literally be the only thing I would go back for.