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04/13/2025 - Cynthia I.
I found this amazing spot that offers some of the best food I've ever had. The atmosphere is super chill, and the staff is incredibly friendly. If you're looking for a great experience, you should definitely check it out!
09/07/2024 - a local couple
As a 72 y/o long-term customer who began coming here when it first opened up, I'm very saddened to see a very unexpected decline at Hiroba. I used to brag about Hiroba to people all the time for it's fresh tasty food (REPEATEDLY so), pleasant employees and quaintness. I got to know the owners Sue and Yung (far more so, Sue) as well as Mauricio, the Chef.
I (*we*) ALWAYS looked forward to going to Hiroba - without exception. As of Sept 6 2024 I/we can no longer do that. My wife and I hadn't been for about 6 months due to her operation, so this was going to be a late luncheon reward for her healing as well as (we 'thought',) the grand satisfaction of our palates - because Hiroba is the ONLY place we have gone to for years for sashimi, sushi, etc - we'd literally gone nowhere else. It was THAT good.
OMG, what happened to this place?? The server, pleasant enough, didn't understand nor speak much English, making discussions *extremely* difficult. No wasabi was served (we later had to ask for it), the glass dipping dishes were now small kind of ugly plastic things, on our order: the staff made wrong items, forgot multiple items and worst of all, the dishes served were simply terrible... although the volcanoes were (not customary, but) "acceptable". Even the table soy sauces were odd tasting... especially the reduced salt one. I think maybe they were faux soys in real kikkoman bottles, because we use kikkoman at home and we're very accustom to their flavors.
The tuna (all orders, every piece) was nearly inedible due to each bite being full of sinew - a fibrous interwoven tendon. Like chewing thin plastic yarn. Akami, it wasn't... very sure it was seshimo - from the lower back, which the cccc-cheapest quality one could buy as a restaurant. We always eat tuna and salmon at Hiroba and had NEVER had a fibrous bite of tuna - ever! Not one.
The rice used in the long rolls was tasteless and dry, like it had sat out for days... literally no flavor - contrary to all our past experiences there. The spices/sauces/seeds were VERY ( *V* *E* *R* *Y* ) sparingly used and not one thing we ordered tasted like it "should" - In all our past experiences, the food quality and taste was !extremely tasty! and repeatable - THAT's why we always came back! That's why we never went anywhere else!
Pfft. This time it was so bad we didn't order anything more and left hungry after (very quietly) speaking to a young lady about (in our opinion) the dramatic downfall of things, who then took our personal info and said she'd pass it on to Sue. I don't believe she did, or we would have heard from Sue, as Sue knows us by facial recognition.
So quite unfortunately for US, we report the truth of the SAD new experience herein, as well as have made the decision to never go back. $60 for lunch (we had water drinks) which tasted that bad, is completely unacceptable. Our hope is Sue reads this review and reaches out - Depending on what she has to say, it might help.
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