![]() ![]() ![]() You just have to enjoy eating sushi & seafood and have a good appetite when you go.While most people are chasing a trend or new restaurant- How about. And considering the Prince Court seafood dinner buffet is normally $50 per adult & even more for holiday brunches, from my perspective Haiku is a good value. But their food is quite similar to the Prince Court Waikiki, except Haiku has a larger variety of sushi & other menu items. ![]() I have no point of comparison to other Seattle area buffets so can't comment in that respect. Since dinner was on my brother-in-law, I don't know how much it was but the restaurant's website showed $24 per head. But if you have a sweet tooth they have a large selection to choose from. In this kind of restaurant, I avoid desserts. Snow & Dungeness crab were also available with my preference being the latter. My wife & I enjoy sushi & fresh, raw seafood so we went a bit heavy on those items. They also had a wide variety of other raw & cooked seafoods and meats, chicken, duck, salads, side dishes & desserts. This particular ingredient is usually a bit pricey. I was surprised to see they even had one with uni (sea urchin eggs) which I love. For each type, they had a variety of ingredients. The sushi bar had the various maki-type roll sushi, temaki (cone shaped hand rolled sushi wrapped in seaweed paper called nori), nigiri (hand pressed thumb-sized fingers of rice with a slice of fish, calamari, shrimp, fried egg or similar ingredient laid on top), gunkan maki (like nigiri but with a strip of nori wrapped around the side of the rice with fish eggs or other similar loose ingredient filling the space on top the rice), inarizushi (seasoned rice stuffed in a fried tofu pouch) & too many more to go into here. There was a huge, multi-sided bar in the middle plus more serving counters in back. ![]() It had the largest selection of items I've seen. After getting settled, we went to look over the buffet. Our party of 5 adults & a child was greeted promptly & led to our table. We got there just before they opened for dinner. dinner rush from the two Marriott hotels across the street. My wife's brother told us it's an all you can eat buffet so there's often a huge. On the way back to Kirkland after visiting Snoqualmie Falls with relatives one Saturday last year, we stopped for dinner at Haiku Sushi & Seafood Buffet in Redmond. Crepe was ok - the batter was definitely powder based. We were there right at 530pm, none of those items got replenished even once by the time we left at 7pm. For example, the pork ribs, roast beef, short ribs, BBQ duck. Some of the meats are carried over from lunch. Same with some of the sashimi not placed on cucumbers. More than half of the sashimi has a cucumber infused taste to it. Rather, they are cut up into chunks and placed on top of cucumber slices in plastic cups. The sashimi is fresh, but they are not sliced. not the type for sushi, but the type that is used for Chinese cooking. Presentation is nice and the restaurant is fairly clean. My wife and I tried Haiku the first time as we were staying across the street - Tuesday dinner.
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