Tako San

Restaurant
Traditional cooking
Asian cuisine
Japanese cuisine

36 Rue du Petit Puits, 13002 Marseille 2ème

"If there's one thing the Nipponese share with the Marseillais, it's a common passion for octopus ("tako" in Japanese), which they cook differently...

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This is demonstrated in this kawai restaurant in the Panier district, where the eight-armed beast is eaten not as a stew but as takoyaki: a pancake-like ball of dough stuffed with octopus and sprinkled with bonito shavings that ripple with heat. Very popular in Osaka, they are prepared here by Niho in a miniature kitchen where he also makes okonomiyaki (a cabbage-based pancake), tasty gyoza, and ramen the old-fashioned way (some weekends from November to April, see their Facebook page and reserve). For dessert: incomparable taiyaki waffles, in the shape of sea bream, all hot and filled with chocolate. "Le Fooding.