107 Petaluma Boulevard North
Petaluma, CA 94952

Tel: 707.763.2300
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We hope you will join us.

Hiro's Japanese Restaurant
Located at the center of Historical Downtown Petaluma, Hiro's Japanese Restaurant offers high quality sushi and Japanese cuisine. We use only the freshest ingredients and provide great service in a comfortable atmosphere. We hope you will join us.

Cuisine: Japanese Restaurant
Dress Code: Casual/ Dressy

Directions from 101 South: Exit East Washington St. and turn right. Turn left onto Petaluma Boulevard North and we are on the right side before Western St.

Directions from 101 North: Exit East Washington and turn left. Turn left onto Petaluma
Boulevard North and we are on the right side before Western St. Ample parking can be
found on the street or in the Parking Structure on Kentucky St. (one street behind Petaluma Boulevard).

Entertainment:
Hiro Yamamoto is a former executive of Suntory, Japan's corporate behemoth involved in beverages, pharmaceuticals, restaurants, sports, music, film, resort development, publishing and more. He was also CEO of the Japanese branch of the H.J. Heinz Company - another mammoth corporation - so he knows about fine food and wine. Suntory owned Chateau St. Jean winery. Hiro came here and fell in love with Sonoma
County.

Press:
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, August 17, 2003

Hiro's Soars in Petaluma
Stylish Japanese restaurant offers pristine sushi, sashimi
" Michael Bauer "

Sunday, August 17, 2003

The restaurant, formerly the City Center Diner, has a serene, homelike ambience, thanks to the work of Naoki Takenouchi. The Japanese artist designed the interior, including the birdcage-like art pieces just below the ceiling, the wood sculpture behind the sake bar and even the sink in the women's bathroom. These objects play off the minimal look of the wood-planked floor, exposed brick and white stucco walls.

The focal point of the 53-seat dining room is a magnificent woodcut of a fish that runs the length of the sushi bar, which is lined with glass cases of seductively translucent chunks of fish.

The pristine look translates to the taste, and the presentations are as fresh as the fish. If you order Komuro's sashimi platter ($18), for example, the banana-shaped silver leaf glass bowl will be filled with crushed ice, carpeted in bamboo leaves and topped with a roughly textured mat of delicate twigs. Perfect slices of ahi, salmon, hamachi, maguro, shiro and ebi are propped on piles of pickled ginger with a scattering of flowers that make the whole thing look like a bonsai landscape. One bite of the shiro (albacore) and you know what fresh fish tastes like - mild and slightly briny, with the texture of butter.