Falls Church, VA 22041
Tel: (703) 845-0888
There is definitely something for eveyone at Hokkaido, located between Seven Corners and Bailey's Crossroads in a shopping strip situated along Leesburg Pike's fantastic ethnic food corridor. This is the perfect place for gathering a group of friends who can't agree on where to eat. You can bring your family, grandparents, picky teenagers, every age, every demographic, and every level of palate adventurousness. Hokkaido Seafood Buffet restaurant is a definite guarantee that they will all find something and more!
The impressive display of variety is somewhat overwhelming, so the key is to pace oneself! In the eternal words of the ever-wise Martin Crane in the long-running 90s sitcom, Frasier, giving advice to his son Niles when approaching the all-you-can-eat cruise ship buffet, "Now the buffets come at a pretty good pace, so you gotta pace yourself. And watch out for your fillers - your breads, your rolls, your chips, your dips. You've only got so much room - don't be a hero." Well-said, Martin!
While the selection is enormous, a pick-and-try approach to finding favorites can quickly get you too full to eat anymore. And in the tasting process, a variety in quality may also play into what to pick next. The sashimi cuts were not the high-grade of fish one finds in a favorite sushi joint. There is no question that when there is ample quantity, there is an occasional sacrifice in quality. Perhaps it is well-advised to have higher expectations for the prepared foods rather than the raw bars. But no problem, just move on to the next station and you will not be disappointed!
There is every imaginable kind of food here. Photos below repesent the Hokkaido selection only partially. There is definitely way more here. In fact, there is food everywhere the eye can see. Trays and trays, stations and stations, steam, smoke, aromas. Trying to convey the extensive array of choices is akin to describing the indescribable.
As suggested by its name, this is a restaurant with an Asian flavor, so every Asian cuisine from Korean kimchi to Japanese sushi to Chinese stirfry seems to be represented here. But not only! While there isn't much in terms of service or ambience here, it is barely missed. For under $20 (discounts available for seniors and kids), there is barely time to look around at anything other than the dozens of trays of salads, soups, seafood, stirfry, various stations with unique Asian delicacies and a variety that can be described only as mouthwatering. The dessert station alone offers about a dozen choices.
We will defitely be back here time and time again, so that we can try everything on the menu, and then be back for our favorite picks.
Our plates were filled to the rim, and we hadn't even tried one fifth of what Hokkaido has to offer:
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