Hotaru Japanese Restaurant - San Mateo, California |
| Category: Gourmet Dining | 2010-01-28 |
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| There are many Japanese restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, and our favorite is Hotaru located in the city of San Mateo. |
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| Occupying a small store front on 3rd Avenue steps away from El Camino Real, Hotaru is very popular with the workers and residents in the surrounding quaint San Mateo downtown area. |
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| Hotaru opens 365 days a year, promptly at 11:30 am every day. When we arrived at 11:35 this morning, several tables were already occupied by hungry customers. |
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| With only about 60 seats on the ground level, the restaurant fills up very fast. |
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| Signs for daily special sushi in front of a small counter. |
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| Fresh fish and seafood in the refrigerated case waiting for sashimi and sushi lovers. |
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| The set menus are usually very good values. |
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| My usual favorite is the Bento Box for $9.95 |
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| Service is usually very fast. My Bento Box consists of: Maguro and Sake Nigiri sushi California Roll Chicken Teriyaki Vegetable and Shrimp Tempura Grilled Mackerel Salad Tsukemono Rice Miso soup |
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| Thre is so much food and I usually get a free refill of steamed rice. There is enough food for a very large appetite. |
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| Another of our favorite is the Nigiri sushi set, for $11.00 |
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| A fine assortment of sushi: Maguro Shino Maguro Ebi Inari Tamago Tekkyu roll |
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| Finish with a steaming hot bowl of udon, a great lunch especially on a cold winter day. |
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User comments: | | 2010-10-08 16:16:39 (GMT-6) | Lizzy: | Hi Jenny, Sure, and I think it is time to have another girls lunch date ! :) | | 2010-10-05 01:53:43 (GMT-6) | Jenny: | Call us the next time you go to Hotaru! We go there all the time too! |
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