Hiro Japanese Buffet

I came here with my family for my nieces birthday. The service is good and food is edible. Actually the sushi is pretty fresh considering this is a buffet.
The restaurant itself is fairly clean. The sushi bar is clean too.
What was dirty were the tea pots. I ordered tea and it tasted kinda sour so I opened the pot and noticed a thick layer of brown soot on the inside of the pot and the spout! Disgusting! I asked the waitress to bring me hot water instead and she insisted the pot was not dirty. I scraped off a chunk of the soot and asked for water again.
It’s not expensive to get new tea pots. I hope this place does. And learns to clean their pots after use.
I will not go here ever again but it’s kind of a family birthday place for my family so I’m sure I’ll be forced to go. I just won’t eat or drink tea especially.

Yummy! I ate a bunch of stuff!
They have steamed crawfish, crab legs that are great and clearly sought after among patrons.
The food itself… Selection is great. Chinese and Japanese options. The sushi is not very good. Dumplings are ok. Lo mein and fried rice are the only really decent thing unless you see it come out fresh, like any other Buffet. I will go back if I’m at h Mart and I’m hungry.
Service stinks, but people, please learn to tip. Even though it’s a buffet these people still deserve 12 – 15 percent. If good service of course 20 or more!!!
I saw a table of 10 with 4 kids walk out complaining about service. For a 16 dollar dinner, all you can eat, why complain? Just eat and go… Your table made more tables angry than your server after they saw the check!
Leave the kids at home…

Nice go to if you’re hungry. They have done better job keeping the food fresh than previous owners. Love the sushi options. Not just rolls. Regular Chinese options are tasty and not nearly as greasy as most. I’m only complaint would be with some of shellfish they serve for dinner service. Raw oysters are terrible and really wish they offered the snow crab hot

We went here for my cousin’s birthday dinner and he got a free meal. This buffet has very little variety compared to other buffets I’ve been to, but the oysters, snow crab legs, mussels, and ice cream makes up for it.
The oysters taste kind of weird, my whole table thought the same too and we couldn’t put our finger on why it tastes so much different than other oysters. I ate about 3 plates of these and I didn’t get sick so it has that going for it.
I really like how they set up the ice cream. They put little sealed cups of ice cream in the ice cream cooler. This is a lot more cleaner and less icky than just having tubs of ice cream with metal scoopers.
Their sushi variety was also lacking, but I still enjoyed their small selection. The crayfish was very bland with no seasoning or flavor. I’m used to Cajun food so tasting flavorless crayfish almost made me gag.
Overall lots of cons and small amount of pros to try and make up for it.

Best deal for Asian food you can find. Not fine dining but to food is fantastic. Great selection of Japanese/​Chinese/​Korean food. I will be back in the future. Worth checking out.

A few years ago this place was a dump! With the new owners and staff and name change I decided to try again. It is a complete turn around! Fresh and tasty dishes and the place is always busy now. If I want to get stuffed on asian food I come here! Good variety of sushi. Not much décor or atmosphere though.

Decided to have a late lunch at this place with the family a few days ago. Unfortunately, this visit was not very good, most of the items on the bar were cold, over cooked or dried out. In addition, my father may have gotten a bout of food poisoning that kept him on the toilet for the evening. Not sure I would recommend eating here on off times.

Good selection of food, especially sushi for a buffet… pretty big layout lot of room to move around, the prices were excellent for a buffet.

I left this place dreaming about coming back. Everything about it was good. It was very clean, nice appearance. The food was great. The choices were amazing. I went for lunch and the price was very nice. $ 8.99 I’ve been telling everyone how much i enjoyed this place. The people were very friendly. The list goes on and on.

GROSS.
It’s a shame I can’t give this roach bucket a ZERO stars.
Didn’t even eat our 1^st plate of the buffet.
PAID AND LEFT.
Cold food. Soggy crab legs.
We will never return.
GROSS GROSS GROSS
I would save your money and your belly!!!

The sushi they make here do taste better than other Chinese buffet restaurants’ but I still wouldn’t put Hiro in my «Japanese» cuisine book!
I enjoyed the miso soup, chicken wings, shrimp cocktail, veggies, sushi, ice cream (in their own individual cups! Great for controlling waste but wish they label the flavors). I stayed away from the crab legs — they were really REALLY salty. For about $ 15 you get to eat seafood (including oysters!) on the weekend at dinner time! Not a bad deal, I’m glad to have tried it but probably won’t go out of the way to come visit…

Before I get to the food, you need to consider what your personal opinion is when it comes to buffets. I love ‘em. If you’re expecting world class food, then you’ve already set yourself up for disappointment. But if you’re realistic about buffets (open to unlimited servings of pretty good food, but nothing spectacular) then I would definitely suggest that you try Hiro.
First, the wait staff is very attentive. Usually buffet waiters and waitresses will take your drink order, deliver your drinks, and then you’ll never seen them again unless you flag them down. Not true here. Our waitress checked on us regularly and we never had to go out of our way to get her attention.
The food selection here is really good. Several stir fry dishes, sushi, kimchi, vegetable and shrimp tempura, hot and sour soup, Asian BBQ pork ribs, snow crab, salad bar, and desserts. In two trips, I think I’ve tried just about everything. The only two items I would steer clear of are the raw oysters (duh, this is a buffet) and the fried sushi.
I’ve been here twice, and I look forward to coming here again.

Very good place to have a variety of seafood and sushi
the sushi bar is great
The mussels are the best
Desserts bar is the same at any other Japanese/​asian buffet.
all in all it’s a good choice for a reasonable price lunch buffet (only 8.99)

Buffets make you realize just how wasteful we Americans are. This place was pretty decent for a Chinese buffet, a solid 3 stars. They had more variety than any other buffet I’ve been to and for $ 15 on a Thursday night, that’s not too expensive. Here’s some of their notable foods:
Crab: cold and waterlogged.
Clams: no. Stay away. Didn’t have any taste. What a waste of clams.
Sushi: similar to grocery store sushi.
Lo-​mein: fnasty and has no taste.
Fried sushi: who thought this was a good idea?
Baked mussels: pretty tasty. Was my favorite item there.
Ice cream: weird. Very weird. None of it is labeled with what flavor it is. It was very airy with no buttercream in it. Strawberry was better than vanilla.
Calamari: not bad. Not Italian, but were you expecting that?
Dining room is nice and they were good about clearing plates off your table. A strange bathroom cleaner smell was present. Little slow on refilling drinks. For the most part, the buffet was kept stocked. Only thing I noticed was the lychee bin was empty for a long time. You also get a free buffet on your birthday with ID and a paying adult buffet.

This is your run of the mill Asian style buffet. The food is neither good or bad. If you can’t decide on something, I would recommend coming here to eat. At $ 18 a person for dinner buffet, its a great way to satisfy an unruly appetite. The service easily gets 5 stars. The cooked Chinese dishes get 3 stars. The sushi, amazingly 4 stars. I even went back for seconds! Last on the list, desserts. That part just gets honorable mention other than the lychee they offer which was great. This is borderline 4 stars for me but some dishes seemed like they had been sitting under the heat lamp for quite some time. I’ll give this place another shot. Not expecting world class food but definitely has a bit for improvement. Even if they did a little quality control and raised the price even a dollar, I’d give it a whirl!

Highly recommended for lunch, as the lunch buffet is a measly 8.99 per person!
Like any buffet there are misses, but generally you can find something you like.
Cold:
The sushi itself is mediocre; the rice is mushy and not very well seasoned, and the fish is sort of limp. The best was the nigri sashimi.
The cocktail shrimp and oysters were great — you can’t really go wrong with those.
Hot:
Tempura green beans, broccoli, and sweet potato were all lovely.
Fried sushi — a deep fried california avocado roll. mmhhmm, yup.
The hot oysters (with the creamy orange sauce on top) were probably my favorite
The chinese meats were all what is to be expected. I liked them with the seasoned (fried?) rice. The spicy chicken was the best.
Dessert:
Love the little ice cream containers — but where’s the green tea flavor???
Very american.
The sesame donut balls with sweet beans inside were yummy, but not enough filling.
Have the fried bananas with the vanilla ice cream — you’ll thank me.
Miscellaneous:
Edamame is well cooked and perfectly salted.
The kimchi is as good as you can reasonably expect from a japanese buffet.

My family and I had an enjoyable dinner here. The food is decent and the service is great. They had a ton of crab legs that were fresh, although they didn’t have much meat in them. Overall, it was a pretty good dining experience.

This Asian buffet is in the same parking lot as H Mart. With that said, this buffet was quite busy on a Sunday and opened all day instead of closing for dinner.
This was quite an impressive spread with 3 hot buffet bars, 2 cold buffet bars, and a sushi bar. 1 hot buffet bar had all fried foods like cream cheese wontons, fried sushi/​vegetables, etc. The other 2 hot buffet bars had orange chicken, noodles, fried rice, teriyaki chicken, etc. The 2 cold buffet bars had fruits, veggies, crab legs, deserts, and etc.
Overall, the food was meh. The fried foods were definitely better fresh because the longer the food was out it got soggier. That applies to all the food, but what can you do because it’s a buffet. The hot plate food got cold once it was on my plate longer than 5 minutes.
My favorite food was the fried sushi (only if it was a fresh batch). The cold sushi was pretty decent and I liked the fried donut. The crab legs were a little hard to eat without a crab leg cracker. Wish the cream cheese wontons had more cream cheese in it.
For a buffet though, this place is probably better than most. But I’m still giving it 2 stars because I’ve been here before and the quality has gone down in the recent years.

I have eaten at Hiros probably a couple dozen times, so it struck me as odd that I’ve never reviewed it. I guess it’s because I tend to review places that strike me as out of the ordinary, either really good or really bad. Hiro is very middle of the road, but in a good way. It’s my standard goto comfort Asian buffet. It’s where I go when I want good food that isn’t overpriced and I don’t want to wait for delivery.
All their food is always very fresh and the place is always clean. They bill themselves as Japanese & Sushi, but the reality is that they’re a mix with «American Chinese.» They have some Japanese fair, such as edamame, gyoza, seaweed salad, tempura fried vegetables (you gotta try the sweet potato), kimchi and sushi. But they also have Chinese selections, like egg drop soup, crab rangoons, pepper steak, orange chicken and so on. If you are someone who is picky, Chinese or Japanese, you’ll still find plenty to eat here. They also have a ton of seafood options including crab legs, raw and fried shrimp, mussels, clams, baked salmon and so on. The Vegetarian in your family will be able to find many options as well.
Their Sushi bar has nigiri but is mostly maki. There are 16 roll options available plus one in the tempura fried area. They fry it in individual slices so to me it’s over-​battered and not my favorite. The rest of the rolls are pretty good quality for buffet style. I’d say comparable to King Sooper’s sushi. Again, nothing to write home about, but good.
They also have alcohol, and you can get Japanese beer, like Kirin Ichiban.
Their deserts are the usual Asian buffet pre-​manufactured things like crème puffs and little square cakes, but they also have plenty of fresh fruit, jello and puddings. I would recommend you stay away from the ice cream, because it’s always old, stale and tasteless.
I think a good way to gauge the quality of a good Asian restaurant is if Asian people eat there, and this place is always full of them. Overall, I like Hiro and I think you might as well.

Still 3 STARS in my books… Hubs was starving and he REALLY wanted Buffet. *SIGH* So to this Hiro Japanese Buffet we went. That recent visit was on Saturday March 22^nd 2014. When we arrived at this establishment, there was NO WAIT at all. That is good in my books. Time was about 18:30hrs ish.
We came in perhaps before the DINNER RUSH or perhaps, the «Limelight» of this establishment went down south from other patrons what nots. We were given the Booth Seats, in which Hubs was hoping for that evening. As usual Hubs opt to have the Fountain Drink ($ 1.89), I think it was Root Beer of some kind. I opt to have water as part of my beverages.
The Buffet, is all the same, with HOT dishes and COLD dishes and the norm sushi items. This time around, I managed to get and to eat the COLD CRAB LEGS. Nothing fancy, nothing stellar about those COLD CRAB LEGS. For that evening, they also have the SMALL CRABs, in which they just FRIED with Salt and Pepper, edible and doable, since I like to eat Crabs. Too bad, it was NOT Soft Shell Crabs but the norm «small» crabs. So beware of the shells and chew thoroughly if you are into those.
Once again, the «Fried-​Rice» are either over-​cooked or gone bad. NOTE to SELF: Next time DO NOT take the Fried Rice. Hubs managed to get the Fried Udon Noodles. He said the food he choose that evening was A-​OK.

This time around, the Desserts are WAY better tasting. That was what Hubs said. I cannot deny, the Ice-​Cream in the white containers, either they melted and re-​freeze back, so it DOES NOT look appetizing to eat, the one I choose anyway was the Chocolate Chip Ice Cream tasted «yucky» too. *DOUBLE SIGH* I like Hubs option of Strawberry Ice Cream though.
Our Main server, his name is Riki. Hubs indeed gave Riki considerable amount of Tips at the end of our dinner. Total cost of our Buffet with Tips and Tax that evening was $ 40. Left the establishment about 20:10hrs ish.
TABLE: A5
Hiro Japanese Buffet
2797 S. Parker Road,
Aurora, CO 80 014
Tel: (303)-873−9999
Fax: (303)-751−0398
@59/2014