Finally had a chance to try this place after many recs. I definitely didn't disappoint. I I pasta with scallops was good. We ordered a few sides of uni between 4 girls, and we added uni to everything else. Only gripe is that the plates are small, but then again I can never get enough of UNI!!! Service is great.
C Y.
Maruhide, can you please re-open sooner? Everyone I know is dying to taste your uni dishes again! Nothing in the LA area compares to your uni! (We had to drive up to SB to fulfill our craving).
Nick L.
This is by far the best Uni restaurant I have ever visited. Many of my friends from oversea came brought it home on their way to LAX airport. It offers special packaging for hand carries. Premium price but well worth it.
Mickey L.
Pre-COVID experience. This place is a must try for uni lovers. They have a really varied uni based menu. Fresh uni that rivals what I have tasted in Japan. Good pairing of food with qaulity tea.. Overall great presentation, would highly recommend a dine in experience, when it comes back.
Jason Zhang
looking for for this place to be reopened again. I had the best uni in my life from here; I purchased a small box, which I believe to be 60 g, of Santa Barbara ones. Extremely fresh and creamy!
Daniel Judianto
If you love uni, you have to visit this place. Freshest uni, most reasonable price. What more could you want?
Mandy Y.
Best place for Uni lover ever. Fresh Uni with reasonable price. Service is great as well as the food. Nice place to hang out with friends.
Chris L.
Wow you must come here and get the grilled (not regular) uni. It was kind of empty when we came during the weekday but I'm sure it gets packed on the weekends. Service was clear and thoughtful. It's pricey but worth it for a good uni-filled meal. I can't wait to visit again when we are in LA.
Stuart Underwood
Very neat and convenient spot. They provide generous meals and for reasonable prices. I loved the menu very much and the waiters were very friendly and chatty. I recommend this place.
Nelson N.
If you are visiting the L.A. area this place is a must! Forget everything and come here! Seriously!! I flew in from NYC and made this place a priority! I drove a little over an hour in traffic from East Hollywood to make my reservation at 7pm (not sure why I planned it during the heart of rush hour but I did) This is located in a strip mall has limited parking may e there's parking near by but I don't know I am from here lol. I came with four friends. We order our own dishes but order two unit's to try. I think we ordered two of the ensui uni sashimi and let me tell you it is out of this world!!! I have uni from Maruhide before where they FedEx it to me over night (35 bucks) but nothing beats fresh and eating at the restaurant. I have also had uni from Vancouver and it's doesn't compare. For my main I ordered the uni club don which consisted of fresh fish over a bed of rice, seafood and you guessed it more uni!! I was able to make my own uni handrolls which was good! Over all, this is a fantastic place. I want more!!!
Came here for a second lunch with my partner on a Tuesday early afternoon and it was dead inside as expected :) Like every other place in Cali, seems this joint is the anchor store in a strip mall. Normally you'd be worried about the freshness of the ingredients when a restaurant is so slow at a certain time, but it wasn't an issue here at all. Delicious, slippery, bright and fresh Santa Barbara uni was what we wanted and Maruhide Uni Club delivered. We ordered the Uni w/ Toro 2pcs appetizer to share and also a #12 Uni Kaisen Gozen (6 kinds of sashimi w/ chawanmushi, rice and pickled veggies) and the 60g uni tray to share. The sashimi (especially the delectable scallops!) were fresh but they weren't at all the star of the show - the 60g UNI tray was awesome! I wish we had been gluttonous enough to order the 100g or even the 250g uni tray, but that would definitely have been overkill with only two people and as a second lunch ^.^ I have to mention that the white Japanese rice was on point - delicious fat morsels of short grain rice that glistened and were just the right stickiness when my chopsticks picked them up. The only thing I didn't love was the chawanmushi - it had a slight fishy smell and taste (partner agrees, in fact, he pointed it out) - I prefer my chawanmushi with a light egg taste only. Totally wish we had an Uni Club with consistently fresh sourced uni in bulk like this in Honolulu, I'd be there for lunch every day :]
Kiyori H.
I love Maruhide Uni Club! I had Ensui Uni Gozen because I wanted a lots of uni and my husband had Uni Cream Pasta for lunch. Uni Gozen, you can enjoy uni sashimi, uni donburi and Temaki uni. Gozen cones with Uni tamagoyaki, otsukemono, miso soup, tuna salmon sashimi, uni syuto. Tuna and salmon sashimi wasn't that good maybe because uni was amazing.
J N.
I re-visited this restaurant after 2 years since my last time dining in here. The quality of food is still amazing and you will find the best Uni you could taste in LA. There are a new menu so I tried Uni ramen. The soup was so tasty with rich seafood flavor, and serve with a box of Uni. I also tried some sushi and sushi chef seems very experienced and talented, all of sushi piece was very fresh and authentic. Highly recommended.
Jennifer W.
We had a reservation for 2 people at 1 pm. At 1 pm we walked in the door and were told to wait 10 minutes even though we could clearly see our table and three other empty tables. Service was lacking. We think it was because they had only two waitstaff for the whole restaurant, but, it also wasn't very crowded, so your guess is as good as ours was. The food was excellent. Their uni was large, plump, and had great consistency. Best of all: it stayed in tact (wasn't soggy). It could have been an off day, or, they could need to hire more staff, but we were pleased with the food and displeased with the service. In sum: mixed thoughts.
Alex H
Good place for UNI! Many iterations of uni. Highly recommended if you love all things uni. The other sushi was mostly okay. If you are not a fan of uni there would not be much for you here. The presentation also excelled!
Finally had a chance to try this place after many recs. I definitely didn't disappoint. I I pasta with scallops was good. We ordered a few sides of uni between 4 girls, and we added uni to everything else. Only gripe is that the plates are small, but then again I can never get enough of UNI!!! Service is great.
Maruhide, can you please re-open sooner? Everyone I know is dying to taste your uni dishes again! Nothing in the LA area compares to your uni! (We had to drive up to SB to fulfill our craving).
This is by far the best Uni restaurant I have ever visited. Many of my friends from oversea came brought it home on their way to LAX airport. It offers special packaging for hand carries. Premium price but well worth it.
Pre-COVID experience. This place is a must try for uni lovers. They have a really varied uni based menu. Fresh uni that rivals what I have tasted in Japan. Good pairing of food with qaulity tea.. Overall great presentation, would highly recommend a dine in experience, when it comes back.
looking for for this place to be reopened again. I had the best uni in my life from here; I purchased a small box, which I believe to be 60 g, of Santa Barbara ones. Extremely fresh and creamy!
If you love uni, you have to visit this place. Freshest uni, most reasonable price. What more could you want?
Best place for Uni lover ever. Fresh Uni with reasonable price. Service is great as well as the food. Nice place to hang out with friends.
Wow you must come here and get the grilled (not regular) uni. It was kind of empty when we came during the weekday but I'm sure it gets packed on the weekends. Service was clear and thoughtful. It's pricey but worth it for a good uni-filled meal. I can't wait to visit again when we are in LA.
Very neat and convenient spot. They provide generous meals and for reasonable prices. I loved the menu very much and the waiters were very friendly and chatty. I recommend this place.
If you are visiting the L.A. area this place is a must! Forget everything and come here! Seriously!! I flew in from NYC and made this place a priority! I drove a little over an hour in traffic from East Hollywood to make my reservation at 7pm (not sure why I planned it during the heart of rush hour but I did) This is located in a strip mall has limited parking may e there's parking near by but I don't know I am from here lol. I came with four friends. We order our own dishes but order two unit's to try. I think we ordered two of the ensui uni sashimi and let me tell you it is out of this world!!! I have uni from Maruhide before where they FedEx it to me over night (35 bucks) but nothing beats fresh and eating at the restaurant. I have also had uni from Vancouver and it's doesn't compare. For my main I ordered the uni club don which consisted of fresh fish over a bed of rice, seafood and you guessed it more uni!! I was able to make my own uni handrolls which was good! Over all, this is a fantastic place. I want more!!!
Restaurantji Recommends
Came here for a second lunch with my partner on a Tuesday early afternoon and it was dead inside as expected :) Like every other place in Cali, seems this joint is the anchor store in a strip mall. Normally you'd be worried about the freshness of the ingredients when a restaurant is so slow at a certain time, but it wasn't an issue here at all. Delicious, slippery, bright and fresh Santa Barbara uni was what we wanted and Maruhide Uni Club delivered. We ordered the Uni w/ Toro 2pcs appetizer to share and also a #12 Uni Kaisen Gozen (6 kinds of sashimi w/ chawanmushi, rice and pickled veggies) and the 60g uni tray to share. The sashimi (especially the delectable scallops!) were fresh but they weren't at all the star of the show - the 60g UNI tray was awesome! I wish we had been gluttonous enough to order the 100g or even the 250g uni tray, but that would definitely have been overkill with only two people and as a second lunch ^.^ I have to mention that the white Japanese rice was on point - delicious fat morsels of short grain rice that glistened and were just the right stickiness when my chopsticks picked them up. The only thing I didn't love was the chawanmushi - it had a slight fishy smell and taste (partner agrees, in fact, he pointed it out) - I prefer my chawanmushi with a light egg taste only. Totally wish we had an Uni Club with consistently fresh sourced uni in bulk like this in Honolulu, I'd be there for lunch every day :]
I love Maruhide Uni Club! I had Ensui Uni Gozen because I wanted a lots of uni and my husband had Uni Cream Pasta for lunch. Uni Gozen, you can enjoy uni sashimi, uni donburi and Temaki uni. Gozen cones with Uni tamagoyaki, otsukemono, miso soup, tuna salmon sashimi, uni syuto. Tuna and salmon sashimi wasn't that good maybe because uni was amazing.
I re-visited this restaurant after 2 years since my last time dining in here. The quality of food is still amazing and you will find the best Uni you could taste in LA. There are a new menu so I tried Uni ramen. The soup was so tasty with rich seafood flavor, and serve with a box of Uni. I also tried some sushi and sushi chef seems very experienced and talented, all of sushi piece was very fresh and authentic. Highly recommended.
We had a reservation for 2 people at 1 pm. At 1 pm we walked in the door and were told to wait 10 minutes even though we could clearly see our table and three other empty tables. Service was lacking. We think it was because they had only two waitstaff for the whole restaurant, but, it also wasn't very crowded, so your guess is as good as ours was. The food was excellent. Their uni was large, plump, and had great consistency. Best of all: it stayed in tact (wasn't soggy). It could have been an off day, or, they could need to hire more staff, but we were pleased with the food and displeased with the service. In sum: mixed thoughts.
Good place for UNI! Many iterations of uni. Highly recommended if you love all things uni. The other sushi was mostly okay. If you are not a fan of uni there would not be much for you here. The presentation also excelled!