{"id":140423,"date":"2025-08-12T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140423\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:17:13","slug":"inspired-by-the-popular-anime-series-one-piece-cafe-opens-in-little-tokyo-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140423\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by the popular anime series, One Piece Cafe opens in Little Tokyo \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new Little Tokyo restaurant is bringing the world of anime into real life with a theme and menu inspired by the popular animated series \u201cOne Piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love anime, I love pop culture and I think One Piece has so many stories and fans behind it,\u201d said Andy Nguyen, co-owner of the new One Piece Cafe, which opened Aug. 2 at 241 S. San Pedro St.<\/p>\n

The series, which made its debut on Japanese<\/a> TV in 1999, follows pirate Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat crew on their quest to find the \u201cOne Piece,\u201d the legendary treasure of Gol D. Rogers, who was the former king of the pirates. Since its debut, the show has exploded in popularity and grew to include 15 feature films, as well as video and trading card games and merchandise.<\/p>\n

Following the theme of the show, the Little Tokyo<\/a> spot is decked out in nautical touches meant to make the restaurant resemble a pirate ship. There are wood barrel tables, thick ropes, interior walls that resemble the wooden deck of a pirate ship and characters from the series peeking out of portholes.<\/p>\n

\"AA new Little Tokyo restaurant inspired by the popular animated series \u201cOne Piece,\u201d opened in Little Tokyo on Aug. 2 (Photo courtesy One Piece Cafe)<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we built a great immersive experience. When you come in there you\u2019ll feel like you\u2019re in the pirate ship,\u201d said Nguyen, who opened the first One Piece cafe in Las Vegas. The new Little Tokyo spot is his second location.<\/p>\n

\"AA new Little Tokyo restaurant inspired by the popular animated series \u201cOne Piece,\u201d opened in Little Tokyo on Aug. 2 (Photo courtesy One Piece Cafe)<\/p>\n

The menu meanwhile is inspired by the Straw Hat crew\u2019s favorite foods and includes dishes like Sanji\u2019s \u201cDiable Jambe\u201d Chicken Katsu Sando, a spicy chicken katsu sando on honey milk bread with house-made katsu sauce. Sanji, one of the main characters who is the cook of the pirate crew, also inspired Sanji\u2019s Beef Yakisoba, a savory garlic soy beef yakisoba with saut\u00e9ed veggies and house pickles, while Hachi, an octopus fish-man character, inspired\u00a0 Hatchan\u2019s Takoyaki. This dish is made up of octopus fritters with house sauce, bonito flakes, and seaweed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want our customers to have that immersive experience and to feel like we did One Piece justice and to feel like they\u2019re having a great time on the ship,\u201d Nguyen said.<\/p>\n

Also available at the cafe is merchandise including T-shirts, tote bags, keychains, plushies, pins, lanyards and other items.<\/p>\n

One Piece Cafe<\/p>\n

Where:<\/strong> 241 S. San Pedro St.<\/p>\n

Hours:<\/strong> 11 a.m.-10 p.m. daily<\/p>\n

Information:<\/strong> onepiececafe.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Little Tokyo restaurant is bringing the world of anime into real life with a theme and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2499,2961,224,6080,5337,988,13165,1072],"class_list":{"0":"post-140423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-downtown-los-angeles","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-county","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-restaurants","16":"tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","17":"tag-things-to-do"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115017406529513661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}