Hiro Japanese Restaurant

Hiro Japanese Restaurant has been serving sushi on NE 163rd Street since 1983, which makes it one of the longer running independent restaurants anywhere in North Miami Beach, let alone on its own crowded stretch of road. The restaurant’s own history describes itself as a North Miami Beach institution, and more than four decades in the same general corridor is the kind of tenure that earns that label honestly. The name comes directly from the restaurant’s number on 163rd Street (Hiro 163), a small branding touch that ties the business permanently to its address.

The menu covers the full range of a serious sushi bar: an extensive sushi and sashimi program, yakitori tapas cooked over the grill, robata items, tempura, and noodle dishes, all built around what the restaurant describes as playful, exquisitely presented plates that marry traditional Japanese technique with modern twists. Fresh seafood and locally sourced produce are emphasized throughout, and the kitchen clearly does not treat the menu as a static list handed down since 1983. Lunch specials including bento boxes and teriyaki plates make the restaurant accessible for a quick midday meal, while the full dinner menu and desserts like banana tempura and mochi ice cream round out a more leisurely visit.

One of the more distinctive things about Hiro is its hours. The restaurant is open seven days a week from 11:45 in the morning until 3:00 in the morning, with the lounge portion open all day, a schedule that puts it among the latest closing restaurants in North Miami Beach. The description of a relaxed, jazz filled dining room with a full liquor bar suggests an atmosphere built for lingering, not rushing through a meal, and that combination of late hours and a lounge feel has helped the restaurant become a late night destination as much as a dinner spot over its four decades in business.

Hiro sits in the same general shopping corridor as several other North Miami Beach restaurants along 163rd Street, in a stretch of small plazas that has served as the city’s informal restaurant row for decades. Its longevity there, now well past forty years, makes it a genuine landmark for longtime North Miami Beach residents, many of whom likely ate their first sushi roll at Hiro before the dish became a national staple. For anyone exploring the 163rd Street corridor and looking for a sushi restaurant with real history behind it, Hiro remains one of the anchor businesses of the strip.