Takumi Japanese Restaurant

A Wonderful Little Family-Owned Japanese Restaurant on Long Island My wife and I lived in Tokyo, Japan, for a few years and, when we returned from the USA, we missed the authentic little family-owned restaurants that we used to dine in regularly while we were there. However, upon returning to New York, we were able to find a number of little Japanese restaurants, in New York City and on Long Island, that reminded us of the places we loved to dine in in Japan. One of the best of these is Takumi, in Hauppauge, New York, where the Okamuras, a husband and wife team, both of whom were born in Japan, provide diners with friendly and warm service, combined with excellent and delicious Japanese food that is absolutely fantastic. The restaurant specializes in sushi, and their sushi and sashimi rivals some of the restaurants that we used to frequent when we lived in Japan. In fact, our daughter, who not only lived with us in Japan but, years later, went back to study at Kyoto University there for a full year, absolutely loves the restaurant, as does her entire family!

Real Real Japanese restaurant!! The food there is excellent, small place, mom and pop restaurant.. Stop by, you won’t regret this place.

Authentic Japanese owned sushi restaurant Small, intimate, family owned, authentic Japanese restaurant. Food is light and fresh. Staff, which is comprised of husband and wife are very friendly and welcoming. Food is phenomenal.

Authentically Japanese – Mom&Pop Restaurant I had checked out all the Japanese restaurants within an hour’s drive of my hotel. None seemed authentic, in that they were chains or seemed to be Chinese, Korean or Thai owned and operated. This one seemed Japanese – and indeed it is! It was a family affair that night with mother, father and daughter serving and preparing food. The feel was just right. We loved the ambience. The menu had lots of favorites, so it was difficult to choose. We took suggestions from the servers. My favorite was the special of small fried fish, although I already forgot the name. I wanted shishamo, but they had these instead. We always like to taste clear soups, since we love fresh made dashi, but this one tasted like sweetened beef bullion. Another special was a beef tataki with “fresh wasabi” (which was actually pickled wasabi plant, but it went well with the meat). Aji sashimi is one of our favorites and we could get this here and they fried the skeleton, too! I love hijiki (seaweed); they had several choices, so I chose one I hadn’t had or considered: hijiki with tofu. It was served warm and was a new combination for me. I like to have a few lightly breaded and fried things, so chose the vegetable tempura and fried oysters. I think the oil wasn’t hot enough, since the breading was soaked with oil in both cases. I was excited they also had maguro no yamakake. I never had it presented this way. It was Bluefin tuna over sushi rice with the grated yamaimo on the side. All in all it was a pleasant surprise – especially for being in the boonies of Long Island.

My all time favorite Sushi restaurant Yuki and his wife are both wonderful hosts. As well they prepare the most scrumptious sushi I have ever had. I never need a menu when I go. Between Yuki's special dishes and what he recommends we are never disappointed. A must try if in the area.

Solidly authentic Japanese restaurant! Solid authentic Japanese restaurant with well-executed dishes, very personable service, and a serene pleasant interior. On this visit, we didn't go for any sushi or sashimi, electing to go with our favorite Japanese comfort foods. We started off with some appetizers which included an outstanding fried soft shell crab, crispy light batter outside and light and moist as a cloud inside (I regret we didn't order more of this ... ). Their fried gyoza was also excellent as well as the 2 seafood salads we had. I ordered my go-to comfort food: tempura udon noodle soup and it came in a hot tasty broth with a brace of big tempura ebi slowly soaking up the soup flavors. My wife and kids had grilled eel, either over rice or with hot soba noodles; the eel was unctuous, salty-sweet, and utterly delicious. For dessert, Takumi had macarons so we had to try these - they were very good macarons, crisp outer shell and soft textured interior, better executed than many bakeries. On the proprietress's recommendation, we also tried their Japanese apple pie - why oh why didn't we ever hear of this before? Or seen it on the menus of other Japanese restaurants? Simply delicious, no words can describe it ... and we should have ordered more of these too!

Great Sushi!!! Loved this little sushi place. The food was fresh and delicious!!! The service was excellent, the waitress friendly and accommodating.