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10509 Valley View St. Cypress, CA 90630

714-527-6090

http://www.cafehiro.com

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10509 Valley View St. Cypress CA 90630

Cuisine(s): American, French, Fusion, Italian, Japanese

Hours: Sun 12pm-9:30pm, Tue-Thu 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri 11:30am-10pm, Sat 12pm-10pm

Price: $$ $$
Features: Takeout

Alcohol: Beer/Wine

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary
Parking: Lot Available

Description

A warm, inviting bistro in a forgettable mini-mall in Cypress, Café Hiro is an oasis of Japanese cooking in a desert of chain restaurants. The menu features European foods cooked to the Japanese taste, such as spaghetti with tobiko or uni and Japanese curries. Start with perfectly roasted pork in Peking duck buns, then move on to pork katsu curry (a huge portion with a spice that sneaks up on the follow-through) or miso-marinated black cod (moist and rich, in an earthy broth that replaces gravy). Check the specials boards for what's freshest that day. Value is outstanding: Soup, salad and a main course will run you $16-$17. Desserts are good but pricey for the size. Service is warm and informal; you'll feel like you're eating in someone's oddly-decorated living room.

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Ten Great Salads in Orange County

By Edwin Goei | Fri, May 31, 2013

Salads get a bad rap. It's the name: salad. We tend to associate the word with lettuce, usually iceberg, which is flavorless, bland--the antithesis of a steak. For those on a diet, salad is punishment... More »
$The Mein Event: OC\'s Best Noodles$

The Mein Event: OC's Best Noodles

By SHUJI SAKAI, DAVE LIEBERMAN, EDWIN GOEI, GUSTAVO ARELLANO | Thu, August 23, 2012

When doing a cover story about noodles, the first thing you need to do is get rid of all the bad headlines that quickly pop into your cliché-addled brain. "Oodles of Noodles!" "Noodling Around!" "Noodle Knowledge!" "My Life As a Noodle!"... More »
Eat This Now: Fried Whole Shrimp at Cafe Hiro

By Edwin Goei | Thu, May 10, 2012

The first thing I do when I walk into Cafe Hiro is wave a salute to the man himself, Chef Hiro Ohiwa. The second thing I do is look at the blackboard. Sure, there's the regular menu, where the uni spa... More »
10 Great Japanese Restaurants In Orange County

By Edwin Goei | Fri, March 30, 2012

For this list of Japanese restaurants, we intentionally left out the sushi bars because, well, we already did that list. We also shut out the ramen joints, teppanyakis, and yakinikus because, well, we... More »
No. 6: Osso Bucco Pasta at Cafe Hiro

By Edwin Goei | Thu, October 06, 2011

You'll have noticed we're changing who writes this feature on a day-by-day basis: this is how you know we're getting close to the end of our countdown. Make sure to pick up a copy of our Best of OC... More »
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2011 | Best Dessert

Hiro Ohiwa isn't a pastry chef by trade, but it would be hard to find a better dessert than his croissant bread pudding. When he retired it, customers demanded its return, so it came back, hopefully for good. Enjoy this warm, eggy masterpiece while you can, sopping it up with an ocean of bitter caramel sauce that has the burned imprimatur of coffee. Then order the flaky banana mille-feuille or a panna cotta decorated with berries in a martini glass, a milky confection wiggling somewhere at... More »
2009 | Best Japanese Restaurant

There are as many subgenres of Japanese restaurants as there are kinds of Japanese food: izakayas, sushi bars, teppanyakis, yakinikus, ramenyas--and that's just naming a few! Then there's Café Hiro, a 7-year-old local anomaly that not only defies classification, but also rises above them. The only thing you need to know is that chef/owner Hiro Ohiwa trained in France and Italy and worked a stint at LA's Matsuhisa. So, do not expect teriyaki or sushi. Do count on... More »
2007 | Best Fusion Restaurant

"Fusion" is a restaurant buzzword that's fallen out of favor. But for lack of a better term, that's what we'll call chef Hiro Ohiwa's food ("French and Italian-influenced Japanese" just doesn't roll off the tongue). Seaweed meets spaghetti; uni flavors the risotto; osso bucco collapses at the touch of a fork. Entrées come with a homemade soup of the day and a brisk salad dressed in ginger and miso. Whatever you decide to classify it as,... More »

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Main Menu

Appetizers

Calamari Frit
fried calamari covered with parmesan cheese and parsley

Crispy Fried Tofu
four pieces of tofu, deep-fried with onion in a spicy apple-ginger sauce

Ahi Tuna Tartar
ahi tuna and avocado with wasabi cream and tamari-soy sauce served with crispy wonton chips

Peking Pork
peking pork with steamed buns, asian herb mix and hoisin sauce

Crispy Salmon Spring Roll
salmon spring rolls with sliced onions and a plum sauce

Eda Mame
boiled and salted soybeans in the pod

Fried "jidori" Chicken
fried "free range" chicken in a spicy miso sauce

Tipsy Manila Clam
manila clams cooked with garlic, shallot and celery in a white wine sauce

Creamy Crab Cake
creamy crab cake breaded and deep fried to a golden brown with a tomato sauce

Steamed Shao-mai
four pieces of steamed chinese dumplings wrapped in a wonton skin

Fire Fries
seasoned and spiced french fries

Salads

Bbq Beef Salad
mesclun with tender usda prime beef short ribs, potato salad and asian herb mix with a sesame miso dressing

Chinese Chicken Salad
mesclun with chinese chicken, ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, scallions, toasted almonds and crispy wontons with a sesame dressing

"tofu" Salad
mesclun with tofu, potato salad, daikon sprout, dried bonito shavings and dry seaweed with sesame-miso dressing

Seared Albacore Tuna Salad
mesclun with seared albacore tuna, garlic chips and red onion with a sesame-miso dressing

Mesclun Salad
mix greens with a sesame-miso dressing

Pasta

Spicy Caviar "mentaiko" Spaghetti
"a walleye pollok's egg spiced with red pepper and salt " spaghetti with toasted seaweeds

Sea Urchin "uni" Spaghetti
"sea urchin" spaghetti with toasted seaweed

Manila Clam Spaghetti
spaghetti with manila clams in a garlic-soy sauce *tomato sauce available

Pescatore
spaghetti with shrimps, scallops, new zealand mussels, manila clams, mushrooms and calamari in a tomato sauce

Plum Paste & Oba Mint Spaghetti
plum paste spaghetti with oba mint, dried bonito shavings and toasted seaweed

Sauteed Spinach & Sea Urchin Spaghetti
spaghetti with sauteed spinach and sea urchin in a tamari soy sauce

Eggplant & Mushrooms Spaghetti
spaghetti w/ eggplant & mushrooms in a garlic-soy sauce w/ dried bonito shavings and toasted seaweed *tomato sauce available

Spicy Garlic Spaghetti With
-spinach & bacon *tomato sauce available **add chicken -spinach & mushrooms *tomato sauce available **add chicken

Carbonara
spaghetti with crispy bacon in a cream sauce **add chicken and/or spinach and/or mushrooms

Meat Sauce Spaghetti
spaghetti made with freshly made meat sauce **add chicken and/or spinach and/or mushrooms and/or eggplant

Penne

"arrabiata"
penne in a spicy tomato sauce

Fresh Tomato & Eggplant In A Meat Sauce
penne with tomatos and eggplants in a freashly made meat sauce

Chicken & Mushrooms In Cream Sauce
penne with chicken and mushrooms in a freashly made cream sauce

Entree
Served With Salad And Rice Or Bread

Sauteed Chicken
sauteed "free range" chicken with vegetables and spicy "miso" sauce

Sauteed Shrimps With Sea Urchin "risotto"

Roasted Chilean Sea Bass With Mushroom "risotto"

Roasted Chilean Sea Bass With Asparagus
roasted chilean sea bass with asparagus, tomato and garlic-lemon soy sauce

Osso Bucco
slowly braised australian "wagyu" beef with demi-glace sauce

"hamburg" Steak
"hamburg style" steak w/ a choice of demi-glace sauce or citrus "ponzu" sauce, and sauteed vegetables

"kurobuta" Pork Loin Cutlet
tender "kurobuta or black pig" pork loin breaded and fried to a golden brown w/ demi-glace sauce or citrus "ponzu" sauce, and sauteed vegetables

Chicken Cutlet
tender "free range" chicken breaded and fried to a golden brown w/ demi-glace sauce or citrus "ponzu" sauce, and sauteed vegetables

Curry
Our Curry Is Flavored Using Only Natural Spices, Fruits And Vegetables For The Healthiest Curry Available

Pork Cutlet Curry
curry sauce with tender "kurobuta or black pig" pork loin breaded and fried to a golden brown

Chicken Cutlet Curry
curry sauce with tender "free range" chicken breaded and fried to a golden brown

Wild Mushroom Curry
curry sauce with shiitake, shimeji and mushrooms

Beef Curry
australian "wagyu" beef curry

Chicken Curry
curry sauce with tender "free range" chicken

"hamburg" Steak Curry
curry sauce with a "hamburg style" steak

Vegetable Curry
curry sauce with seasonal vegetables

Seafood Curry
curry sauce with shrimps, scallops, mussels, manila clams, calamari and mix mushrooms

Dessert

Panna Cotta
a soft and creamy pudding with fresh seasonal fuits.

Walnut Creme Brulee

Pot De Creme Au Chocolat

Green Tea Blanc-manger

Sorbet

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Cafe Hiro

10509 Valley View St. Cypress, CA 90630

714-527-6090

Description

Ten Great Salads in Orange County

By Edwin Goei | Fri, May 31, 2013

The Mein Event: OC's Best Noodles

By SHUJI SAKAI, DAVE LIEBERMAN, EDWIN GOEI, GUSTAVO ARELLANO | Thu, August 23, 2012

Eat This Now: Fried Whole Shrimp at Cafe Hiro

By Edwin Goei | Thu, May 10, 2012

10 Great Japanese Restaurants In Orange County

By Edwin Goei | Fri, March 30, 2012

No. 6: Osso Bucco Pasta at Cafe Hiro

By Edwin Goei | Thu, October 06, 2011

2011 | Best Dessert

2009 | Best Japanese Restaurant

2007 | Best Fusion Restaurant

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