MOIRA Sushi Bar & Kitchen

Excellent food, nice atmosphere, great service. The shishito peppers were great, cooked perfectly, and flavorful. The sushi is fresh and prepared well. Next time I'm in Phoenix, I'll be back.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The menu is very deceiving. Make sure you understand the menu when ordering.

We got an order to go. The food was delicious but they didn’t include anything but the food. No napkins, no chopsticks, no forks, no wasabi, no soy sauce. It was kind of weird. Fortunately the hotel had a fork so we could eat our yakisoba! I couldn’t find any menu online so I took pictures and uploaded for the benefit of all.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 1

Very good, ordered 6 different kind and everything was ready in about 10 min, all sushi had amazing flavor and beautifully decorated

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The waiter was not attentive. And I never got offered another drink or anything else! Customer service was not good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 3

Just stopped in for a quick spicy tuna roll. It was really good. Service was a little odd, but overall everyone was cool. I'd go here again.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Tuna

The miso soup was wonderful.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

We like to eat like we live in NYC or Europe, 8p or later, so we often go to Moira after the nearby theatre because it is open later than most restaurants. When we arrived last night after a show, around 9:00p, it was filled with like-minded people and was still going strong, and people were still arriving when we left around 10p. And it’s not just because they’re open late. The place has a trendy, moody vibe, friendly and helpful service, and, best of all, the food is Japanese, and good, and it’s not sushi-centric (Japanese cuisine has SO much more to offer than raw fish). There is a long list of Happy Hour bar bites (cooked), maki, and temaki (handrolls), which begins at 9p on Saturday night (till 2a!). Happy Hour is 5p to 11p Mon-Thursday and 10:30 to 2a on Friday, which probably means tables or counter seats are harder to get late on Friday nights. Although they offer sushi and sashimi, we satisfied ourselves at two prime counter seats from the Happy Hour and Izakaya (which means Japanese pub) parts of the menu. The menu also has a Hot Kitchen section, which are things like noodles and Yakisoba. I really like the boneless tori (chicken) kara-age (deep fried) boneless bites (Happy Hour or Izakaya parts of the menu). We also enjoyed the Niku-Ishiyaki (grill — yaki— yourself meat — Niku, in this case very thinly sliced beef), which included some veggies. It makes a firey presentation. Suggestion: use some other fire source, like sterno. The oil flame burns out too quickly, which forces re-lights (2 for us) and pressured us to eat this dish faster than we wanted to. Another suggestion: more non-nigori sake. The Hakutsuru Junmai (made with only rice, koji, and water) Namachozo (partially unpasteurized) was very tasty, but it would have been nice to have other cold, non-nigori choices. The food was excellent, as always, and we’ll be back after the next show.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We like to eat like we live in NYC or Europe, 8p or later, so we often go to Moira after the nearby theatre because it is open later than most restaurants. When we arrived last night after a show, around 9:00p, it was filled with like-minded people and was still going strong, and people were still arriving when we left around 10p. And it’s not just because they’re open late. The place has a trendy, moody vibe, friendly and helpful service, and, best of all, the food is Japanese, and good, and it’s not sushi-centric (Japanese cuisine has SO much more to offer than raw fish). There is a long list of Happy Hour bar bites (cooked), maki, and temaki (handrolls), which begins at 9p on Saturday night (till 2a!). Happy Hour is 5p to 11p Mon-Thursday and 10:30 to 2a on Friday, which probably means tables or counter seats are harder to get late on Friday nights. Although they offer sushi and sashimi, we satisfied ourselves at two prime counter seats from the Happy Hour and Izakaya (which means Japanese pub) parts of the menu. The menu also has a Hot Kitchen section, which are things like noodles and Yakisoba. I really like the boneless tori (chicken) kara-age (deep fried) boneless bites (Happy Hour or Izakaya parts of the menu). We also enjoyed the Niku-Ishiyaki (grill — yaki— yourself meat — Niku, in this case very thinly sliced beef), which included some veggies. It makes a firey presentation. Suggestion: use some other fire source, like sterno. The oil flame burns out too quickly, which forces re-lights (2 for us) and pressured us to eat this dish faster than we wanted to. Another suggestion: more non-nigori sake. The Hakutsuru Junmai (made with only rice, koji, and water) Namachozo (partially unpasteurized) was very tasty, but it would have been nice to have other cold, non-nigori choices. The food was excellent, as always, and we’ll be back after the next show.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great prices for happy hour food and drink options. Been here a few times with my family and they never disappoint. Try the coconut shrimp and the pork gyoza. For rolls I recommend the dragon.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Dragon Roll

DON'T GO THERE!!! We were patently waiting for the only waiter to clean six tables that were left piled up with dirty dishes. Two tables were almost clean and only needed some wiping, and we could be seated. However, the "smart and professional" waiter told us "that we had to continue waiting" STANDING next to the door, because he cares about cleaning the rest of the tables MUCH MORE than sitting down his waiting customers!!! This is unheard of!!!!! We just walked away... There are plenty of restaurants around willing to take my money!

Atmosphere: 1

Service: 1

It's my favorite Thursday spot...Thank you Moira!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Wings, Dragon Roll, Tiger Roll, Spider Roll

Love this place best sushi bar good drinks good music everything is on lite foood was so good had the best flavors highly recommended

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Normally, I would never leave a 1 ⭐️ review but… when I was dating and the service sucked and the food was okay, I didn’t really care. What’s another restaurant? Now, in a relationship and you have just enough money left over to treat yourself, you get ready, you take a Waymo to the restaurant, spend over $100 and the atmosphere is full of anxiety they’re so understaffed, and then when the food comes, it’s okay. Everyone’s polite but I wouldn’t recommend this dining experience. It’s a cool trendy place to bring a date, sure. Not a great place to get a nice dinner with your girlfriend though. ???

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 1

I really wanted to like this place. I just moved to Phoenix and I can walk here in two minutes so I’ve been planning to try it out the last few weeks. This has to be the worst miso soup I’ve ever had and it just didn’t get any better. I ordered three things on the menu and they forgot to give me one of the items. Unfortunately I don’t see myself coming back here.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 2