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Neighborhood: Pearl DistrictHiroshi is a small, pricey Japanese place and the sous chef hooked it up! If you ask the chef to surprise you with the food, you won't be disappointed.
He blew us away with specialty rolls and small dishes throughout the night. The oysters with the lime-ginger sorbet were SO delicious. SO DELICIOUS! I want some right now. The miso soup with mushrooms was rich and satisfying and I highly recommend this restaurant for an intimate and delicious Japanese dinner.
The greatest Sushi in Portland. If you truly love Sushi you have to try Hiroshi. But bring your AMEX Black Card .... It ain't cheap. Aficionados may find the ambiance and presentation a bit non-traditional but Chef Hiro and team have delivered every time we've been!!!
Hands down, BEST SUSHI in Portland. And overall my favorite sushi place in the US, yep I said the US of A! The Hiro special roll is my favorite! The sushi is reasonably priced. The wine and appetizers are what take a toll on your bill. Overall, I have never had anything bad at Hiroshi and would probably pay double because of how delicious the sushi is.
I have to say: after reading the reviews here, my hopes were high. I love sushi. I even love average sushi as long as the place serving doesn't pretend it is Nobu. The price and ambiance of Hiroshi lead you to believe you are going to get spectacular sushi. Boy did it disappoint. Maybe it was an off night for the whole place.
I brought some good out-of-town friends here. Whenever I get together with these folks, we get sushi and we splurge on it. We walk in and I am knocked back by the fishy smell. I always thought fresh fish shouldn't smell like fish? Also, let it be known, there are close to zero veggie options on the menu. Even their miso has fish in it. Come on! If you want to put fish in your miso soup, that is fine, but list it as such and have the non-fish variety available. We start filling out our sushi cards -- by the way, sushi cards, really?! We aren't at Todai, we're at a high-end sushi place. Take my order verbally. It is not like there was a language barrier between the server and the table. They had the run-of-the-mill Japanese beer selection, which I love but I was hoping for something a little extra/different, like Echigo or something.
We order sashimi and the maguro was limp and VERY poorly cut. We're talking horrendous knife skills here. I might have been able to cut a nicer piece of tuna sashimi. Okay, I doubt it, but it was really bad.
The rolls were pretty good, but nothing to write home about. The veggie rolls my wife ordered were awful. The staff was SO not into catering to a vegetarian.
All in all, I left full but unsatisfied. Definitely a case of expectations set too high.
The fish was fresh.
The service was good.
The ambiance was nice.
The problem was the portions were small...
Appetisers were literally one bite.
The other issue I had was the fact the put way too much wassabi in the sushi which took away from the flavor of the fish.
I am a true believer that it should be up the the person eating the fish how much wassabi the want on it.
Hiroshi, is owner and Chef Hiro's gleaming gem. He closed his old place in Lake Oswego (his second at Hiro's reopened it under the name Umi and it is still excellent maybe even better than before but that is another review).
Hiroshi is an experience. The food quality is flawless, the size and portion of the food is a little smaller than you would like for the price but this place is a special place evening not your usual sushi bar.
The sushi is wonderful but the real adventures lay in the other specials. There are so many wonderful sounding things it is too hard to choose and too expensive to have them all.
I actually haven't been back in a few months but I need to go again and pick out some favorites to post about. I usually try one or two specials then sashimi and sushi it up.
Definately my #2 sushi restaurant in Oregon
If this sushi place were in southern california, I'd give it 4 stars.. . But wow. This is by far the best sushi place I've found in portland. This place is actually one of the rare places in portland that is actually Japanese owned.
I had hawaiian Seabass, hamachi, red snapper, uni, engawa, toro, hamachi (again), oysters on the half shell, and I think a couple others.
One weird thing was that when i ordered toro, engawa and Hawaiian seabass, it was served with one piece... others were served with two pieces. The chef explained that some fish was more "rare" than others.... I guess I'm okay with it.. as long as I'm allowed to order two orders :D
As a sushi addict this place is the best in Portland!!!! (It rivals Shiro's in Seattle)
A hint for people who want the best experience:
Sit at the bar and say, "Feed me." Let the sushi chef choose and be surprised. (Make sure you tell the chef if you hate something.) This way you will get things you don't normally try, and you'll get the best pieces of fish.
I expect a lot from the restaurant I choose when I'm coming home to visit my parents because it means a no-holds-barred eat-fest that they will fund.
I was somewhat disappointed with Hiroshi - the purported "best sushi restaurant in Portland" according to the Oregonian restaurant guide.
We had a variety of rolls but nothing really stood out, aside from the nigiri where the excellent quality of the fish was apparent. The portions on main courses were small for the expense. I found the cod my father ordered a little rubbery.
My dad also got really irritated that they can't give you a price for the "chef's selection" sushi platter.
Before we ordered, the waiter was all on us like white on rice (sushi joke), but after we'd ordered, we got completely neglected. We ordered another bottle of sake and he forgot completely, not even remembering while we looked plaintively across the room at him or when he came to clear our plates.
The desserts were nice, but the flavor of the ginger ice-cream was so subtle it tasted like vanilla and there was not a touch of amaretto in the amaretto flan.
Oh the whole for the expense, I was underwhelmed.
This is one of the better sushi counters I have eaten at in the US. Absolutely top notch quality fish expertly prepared. In addition to sashimi and traditional nigiri style sushi, the menu features inventive french inspired small plates utilizing japanese ingredients. The grilled monk fish liver over brazed pineapple slices with balsamic reduction was a surprisingly good combination.
I eat here every time I come to Portland. In fact, I ate there twice this weekend.
After eating lunch here, I was ready to throw Sushi Land away like a two-bit hussie.
The Yellowfin tuna was meaty, fresh, and gorgeous...simply delicious. The California roll, spicy scallops, and spicy tuna roll were divine.
Quality is similar to Sinju and it also shares something else in common: it is expensive. Soup for two and some sushi selections quickly ran the bill up to $40 for lunch (with tip). And since this was not a martini lunch the price was all food. I imagine ordering off the dinner menu will run the total up even higher, but judging on the quality of the lunch I am sure it is worth it.
Quality sushi, but be prepared to pay for it.
i rate establishments based on their achievement of primary purpose. to me, a restaurant's purpose is good food. it would also be nice if it had nothing bad going for it in service, ambience, location, price, etc. i guess that'd make this a six-star review.
really, some of the best sushi i've had in awhile. similar in quality to the best i've ever eaten, at austin's musashino, but in a very unpretentious and unassuming place. much quieter, and more civilized if not friendlier than musashino. definitely less haughty and annoying (waitstaff-wise). the fish, though, was really fresh, very well-prepared, tasty, and...really, can't find anything to complain about.
will definitely get the chef's special next time i'm there, though i enjoyed both the rolls and the nigiri. even the edamame was ideal--it's not complicated but it was perfect.
quite pricey, but not too fancy. didn't feel underdressed in jeans.
I'm an incorrigible sushi snob, so I knew my dad had to be on to something when he insisted we go to Hiroshi for my only meal in PDX. Hiroshi definitely delivers very good fish, and some original and well balanced rolls. And most crucially, everything was fresh. The servers were also very professional.
I have officially been impressed by Portland's sushi offerings and my father is impressed with himself.
Full? Yes. It's a small place, and the tables were all either full or reserved the entire time we were there. Expensive? Meh--with sake and dessert we spent about $40 a person--try finding sushi this good for less.
My favorite sushi restaurant in Portland. Buri toro (^-^)!!!
I think the chef must come to PDX straight from Narita Japan everyday after hitting up Tsukiji at 4am for the day's fish!!!! It's that good!!!!
A little pricey, but the quality is well worth it, plus it's cheaper than a flight back to Japan!!! Word is out. Reservations recommended!!!
What a disaster. First of all -- other people who say the portions are small ARE NOT KIDDING. Hungry people go elsewhere. Second of all, the service was just awful. The waitress somehow failed completely to get my mother's order. She waited for her food while everyone else ate and the waitress was elsewhere. Then finally the waitress came by and said that no order had been taken. It would take another twenty minutes to bring anything to my mom, so she just offered free dessert. My mom asked for the (little) poached pear, and the waitress brought us all little spoons. So I and my son each asked for panna cotta. Each dessert could fit in one generous spoonful.
But it turned out that the panna cottas were not free, and they cost $10 each! Good Lord.
The food was delicious.
This is a great place, not as flashy as some others you'll find in the Pearl, but the sushi is really fresh, especially the Uni, I've never had Uni like I have here, it really made me a fan!
It wasn't too pricey when you don't count the sake we had, and the service was good, we were nice to her and she was nice to us, we didn't want much else.
2.5 stars
I was really not so impressed with this place. We had read great reviews and I was psyched to get to uber-fresh sushi while visiting the pacific northwest.
What we experienced was mediocre service, high prices and nothing THAT remarkable about the food.
To be clear, the food was very good. But it was pretty standard sushi fare. Nothing super creative and I just don't think it justified the price. Our server didn't bother to tell me they were out of the halibut roll that I ordered--she just didn't bring it out. Again this is a forgivable sin but when you are paying premium prices it is a little upsetting.
Good sushi... expensive.. best that I know of in Portland (Seattle has a couple better options... but this is pretty good).
Easily the best sushi I have ever had in Portland. Its a bit on the pricey side but as they say, you get what you pay for. The rolls they make are like none other; savory, unique and just plain delicious. The fish is amazingly fresh and this is a fantastic place to ask the chef what's good today. As the budget allows, my wife and I will be returning here again and again.
Eel avocado roll and some of the sushi quite good, others smelled a bit fishy. Their mushroom soup is really miso soup with a few mushrooms added to it--seems very overpriced at $4 for a cup. Service was good. Nothing outstanding.
Love this restaurant! First and foremost, it's clean. The fish is the freshest I've had in all of Portland and the sushi chef's are friendly and professional -- try sitting in Nabi's section, he makes the BEST spicy tuna roll ever and he's so nice! It's a bit pricey, yes, but it's worth it. Simply delicious food in a beautiful building downtown in the Pearl District. What more could you ask for? Try it!! You'll see!! :)
Hey you think you have a degree in Sushiology, you could be wrong. Play my 'Match Sushi' at the end.
You will probably give Hiroshi 5*s if you just stick to the nigris.
I am giving 3*s based on the following:
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I What $ *s Why I
I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ I
| Miso 2 5 Steaming, w/ sea weed, tofu I
| Toro 7/piece 5 Fresh, Buttery, buttery, buttery I
| Mackerel 4 ish 1 Not fresh, fishy I
| Wild Salmon 3.50/piece 5 Fresh, yum I
| Spicy Tuna roll 6.80 (4 pcs) 2 Too much rice I
| Spicy Scallop roll 6 ish (4 pcs) 3 Scallop wasn't creamy I
| California roll 6 ish (6 pcs) 3 Not bad I
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Match Sushi:
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| 1. Toro | A. Salmon |
| 2. Hamachi | B. Eel |
| 3. Saba | C. Fatty Tuna |
| 4. Unagi | D. Yellowtail |
| 5. Sake | E. Mackerel |
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Go to the bottom for answers and come back here claim your Sushi degree!
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| # of | Degree |
| correct | |
|================ |
| 5 | Phd |
| 4 | MS |
| 3 | BS |
| 2 | HighSch |
| 1 | JrHigh |
| 0 | PreSchool|
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Answers:
1-C, 2-D, 3-E, 4-B, 5-A
)))))) Hiroshi is closed on Mondays, found out the hard way ((((((
I have been to Hiroshi's on a few occasions, and usually reserve going there when I want to wow out-of-town guests. It is the best sushi in Portland, although a bit out of my usual price range. But the most recent time I went, just a few days ago, not only was the service awful, but the food took forever to come out! We ordered a bottle of red wine, preparing for the great meal ahead of us and were disappointed to find out that they were out of all the selections except one. Previous visits had been enjoyable, mostly due to the extremely knowledgeable waitstaff, but there was not a single server I recognized, and not only was our server unable to answer the questions we had about the sushi, we overheard another server tell her table the same thing! The appetizers were okay but took longer than we expected to arrive, but when the main course of sushi and nigiri finally came out, almost 40 minutes after we ordered it, only half of our order was ready. The waitress offered us free edamame and apologized, but by the time the edamame came out, we had gotten the second half of our order and were full. As we left, both sushi chefs (one of which I think is the owner) were talking to each other and didn't bother to acknowledge us. No customers at the sushi bar, so what took so long to get our food out? Now that we're going through a recession, you would think people would be appreciative of any business they got, especially at a place as overpriced as Hiroshi. It won't be worth my time or money to go back, even if the sushi is the best I've had in Portland.
The $14 Salmon appitizer* is overly 'peppery',other-wise this dish is sublime. :) It does have as a topper,a Lotus root,then a slice of scallop,then a smallish pile of refreshing Salmon atop a single real and edible leaf,surrounded by strong pepper freshly grounded. I removed the pepper,then I devoured this edible treat! Thank you Hiroshi!! :)
I question a voting system that gives Hiroshi and Koji the same 4 stars. Koji was innovative when it arrive many, many, many years ago. Now it is ordinary. The omakase at Hiroshi presented some of the finest sushi I have had and I have eaten in NYC at Masa, Sushi of Gari and Sushi Yasuda. Only Yasuda is better. Hiroshi is fantastic and each bite melts in your mouth.
Best sushi!!! Fresh fish. Expensive but worth it. Wonderful dessert. I just love this place.
Came to Portland for Business and thought "I have to hit a Sushi Bar" because this city by the water has to have great sushi... well Hiroshi satisfied, but wasn't impressive. I mean the fish was good, but I've actually had better in Colorado. Yeah, I know- how could that be? Fish selection was limited here at Hiroshi and the atmoshpere was a bit pretentious for me. I took the advice of a Yelper and had "chef's choice" the whole night. I was hoping for more of a traditional place, but it was more "fu-fu". The other Yelpers who reviewed Hiroshi's did say it was a bit pricey...I'd say it's really pricey! I hit triple digits for a meal "for one". Now I can eat a lot of sushi, and drink a lot of sake, but I did'nt have that much at Hiroshi's!
Upscale atmoshpere, good downtown location, good (not great) fish, and okay service... hence my 3 stars. There's got to be a better sushi bar than this in Portland with better fish, and that won't break the bank for one!
Terrible ambiance--it's a storefront, and the sushi bar itself is lit up like an all-night construction site. It's only slightly dimmer at the tables. The service is equally dismal--you're presented with a checklist of sushi offerings and a pen to enter your selections--no actual speech is involved, and you're expected to order your entire meal at once. It's delivered all at once too, on one great big platter. The wait was interminable to make all that sushi--close to an hour...seriously. The fish looks well past its prime, and the maki is sloppily rolled. Yet, it's expensive---our check for three teenage girls and two moms was $203.50--no drinks, no desserts. Incredibly, we were charged an 18% gratuity. When we protested, the waitress showed us that it was printed on their menu--mandatory 18% gratuity for parties of five or more. Who gets an 18% tip in this economy? No wonder the service was abysmal--there was no downside. And when did five people become a 'large party'? The whole restaurant couldn't hold enough people to stiff them on a tip. All tolled, it added up to $240.50 for a downright dreadful meal.
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