Onigilly Japanese Kitchen - Palo Alto

Japanese rice ball chain with gourmet onigiri stuffed with premium fillings like salmon, tuna, and umeboshi for a quick nutritious meal.

Onigilly Japanese Kitchen makes it easy to try several Japanese flavors in one meal on University Avenue in Palo Alto. Its rice balls offer fillings ranging from baked salmon and miso tuna to shiitake mushrooms, miso eggplant, and tart pickled plum. We like the mix-and-match format, which encourages choosing a familiar filling alongside something new. Sets add accompaniments such as miso soup, edamame, or a bento combination with chicken karaage and tamagoyaki. The same flavor choices can also become toppings for a customizable rice, noodle, or salad bowl. A vegan bowl brings tofu, eggplant, mushrooms, and seaweed together, while poke provides another direction for fish lovers. Kabocha croquettes and purple yam tempura add warm sides. Onigilly's appeal is a compact, flexible Japanese meal that can suit either a quick snack or a fuller lunch.