Momiji Sushi Bar is a recently opened Japanese restaurant located in Hillsboro, in the plaza by Highway 26 and Cornelius Pass Road. Its location used to be occupied by Starbucks, but Starbucks has moved to a freehold building across from it so that it could offer drive through for its customers. After a year of vacancy at this location, it has finally been re-occupied by another restaurant and Momiji Sushi Bar has finally opened. Although it is called sushi bar, Momiji does offer bento boxes and food other than sushi.
On this beautiful Saturday, we originally wanted to go to the pho restaurant in the same plaza. Since Momiji finally opened, we really wanted to give it try. From the outside of the restaurant, it looked very small and we knew that this Starbucks used to be quite small. When we entered the restaurant, it was actually quite spacious. The seating area was in an L shape and could probably hold nearly 50 people.
We were offered the menu as we sat down and the waiter gave us 2 glasses of water. By looking at the interactions of waiters, this seemed to be a family owned restaurant. The gingers were placed on the side in the glass pot and the wasabi was scooped up like green tea ice cream and placed in the glass pot as well.
We ordered a premium salmon roll, which was a special roll. We then also ordered a 2 roll lunch combo with a California roll and a rock tempura roll. The rolls were delivered us 5 minutes later, which was quite quick.
The California roll was not impressive at all. It used imitation crab meat, but the quality is still quite bad as imitation crab meat. It was dry. There was not much flavor to it. The rock tempura roll has shrimp tempura in the middle with spicy mayonnaise drizzled over it. It was not bad. The premium salmon roll had minced spicy salmon in the middle of the roll. On the top of the roll, there was seared salmon which smelled quite good. The sriricha spicy sauce on the top did make the roll more spicy.
Overall, we were not very impressed by the sushi rolls offered here, but it is cheaper than usual sushi restaurant. Momiji also offers all you can eat option, but costs about $30 per person. Maybe we can try this next time when we are very hungry.
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