Noriku Restaurant — Restaurant in Quintana Roo

My wife and I made a reservation for 9:30pm. Best we could do after getting our room key at 3pm. After the evening walking around downtown Tulum, we were anticipating a great dinner based on the excellent reviews and beautiful pictures. We ordered the miso soup, the salmon sashimi, and the soft shell crab to start with. The one positive was that the soft shell crab was good. A dipping sauce had been prepared that seemed to infuse jalapeño into soy sauce. I liked it. The rest of the dinner was pretty bad. The salmon sashimi was covered in colorful but flavorless toppings. One of them was mayonnaise and one was avocado. I love raw salmon but this seemed to make it not as good. The miso soup…oh god, the miso soup…where was the miso? This was literally just some kind of stock, beef maybe(?), that had no miso flavoring at all. Yeah, it was a soup, but that’s it.

We had also ordered some seaweed salad, crab sushi rolls, and two main entrees: beef with rice and pork belly with noodles. Instead of pork belly, I also got beef. Oh well…but it was ok. My wife was less than enthused with her beef and rice. The seaweed salad was literally seaweed mixed with actual lettuce. :( The crab sushi rolls were inedible. Seriously. I was ready to forgive this restaurant due to perhaps some cultural interpretations of Japanese food, but the crab in the rolls was HARD. We each had one piece and did not touch it again.

The drinks were good and the wait staff were very nice, but we were so disappointed with dinner we skipped dessert so we could get Gelato/ice cream at the on premise coffee shop. Imagine our disappointment when we found it they only had some strawberry and coconut left. The pictures on the website are real! But the taste doesn’t match how it...

Let me bring a little Asian perspective to Noriku @Hilton Tulum. First the positives: great service! As seen at all the dining facilities at this Hilton. shrimp tempura was great. Batter is so-so. But shrimp was of good quality. Fresh crnchy and big. the appetizer rice with furikake sprinkle, spot on

The negatives. salmon sashimi was practically ceviche cured. Too much lime the sushi rolls (rice was too vinegared, and wrapped too tight/too demse, almost like a machine made them) tempura vege had good batter but so oily, fryer temp was probably too low by 10-15 degrees yakisoba… was not soba, i think it was rice noodle, and was under cooked. Hard

In fact, the tiradito de pesca at Maxal, the Mexican restaurant tasted more like sushi than Noriku.

So for the Asian...

Our kids looove sushi and so we were really looking forward to multiple trips to Noriku during our stay. Unfortunately, the sushi menu was extremely limited and honestly not that good. We tried some other appetizers and entrees, which were fine, but it just wasn't what we hoped. My wife had food poisoning while getting the gluten free soy sauce, though none of the rest of Is had issues. We cancelled our future reservation and tried some other spots as we had no interest in anything else...