Menu
Mobo Sushi, located in downtown Santa Cruz, offers a diverse menu with vegan and vegetarian options. The chilled appetizers like Inari Vegan and Spinach Oshitashi are a refreshing start to your meal. Their salads, including Seaweed Salad and Green Salad, are flavorful and satisfying. Tsukemono dishes like Quite a Pickle and Easy Pickle provide a unique twist on traditional pickled items. Customers rave about the vegetarian rolls, with dishes like the Guido and Crop Burning standing out. The restaurant's commitment to cleanliness and following safety protocols during Covid-19 is commendable. With attentive service, a vibrant atmosphere, and delicious food, Mobo Sushi is a must-try for sushi lovers in Santa Cruz.
Chilled Appetizers Oshitashi
Inari
Vegan. savory soy pocket stuffed with rice and vegetables.
Spinach Oshitashi
Vegan. Steamed spinach, chilled with sesame sauce.
Broccoli Oshitashi
Vegan. Steamed broccoli, chilled with walnut sauce.
Seaweed Salad
Vegan. A taste of the sea and it's vegetarian.
Green Salad
Vegetarian. Ranch, miso or sesame salmon.
Hiyako Tofu
Vegan. tofu salad with ponzu sauce.
Salads
Tsukemono
Quite a Pickle
Vegan. items in easy pickle, plus ume, shiitaki mushrooms and sunomono cucumbers.
Easy Pickle
Vegan. gabo, takuan, shredded daikon radish, daikon sprouts, shizo, and avocado.
Moriawase
The deluxe sunomono with chef's choice fish on top.
Plain Sunomono
Tangy cucumber salad.
Sunomono with Fish
Choose one type of fish to accompany your sunomono salad.
Sunomono
Hot Appetizers Banzai
Gyoza
Pork, chicken, beef or vegetable served with gyoza sauce, 6 pieces.
Stuffed Jalapeno
Tempura Jalapeno stuffed with cream cheese and salmon served with siracha, spicy mayo and lemon sauce.
Miso Soup
Edamame
Vegan. Steamed soybeans.
Tempura Ebi
Tempura Combo
Tempura Vegetable
Udon Noodle Appetizer
Vegan. With tahini sauce.
Bowl of Rice
Vegan.
Bowl of Sushi Rice
Vegan.
Grilled Skewered Tuna
Flame broiled tuna served over rice with a choice of tangy ginger sauce or thai peanut sauce.
Green Lip Mussels
2 pairs of mussels in the shell broiled with spicy dressing.
Maguro Sashimi
Hamachi Sashimi
1/2 Order of Hamachi
1/2 Order of Maguro
Mongo Mobo Moriawase
Serves 2 or more. Anchored around maguro and hamachi, with a variety of other ingredients.
Chef's Choice
Served with miso soup and bowl of rice. Assortment of our finest cuts. Please allow extra time when ordering this item. Thank you.
Mongo Fuji Moriawase
Serves 4 or more. The cruise liner of sashimi plates.
Sashimi
Sushi Combo Plates
Chirashi
Scattered sushi with sashimi sushi on top.
Half Serious Nigiri Combo
Chefs choice 7 pieces of nigiri singles.
Serious Nigiri Combo
Chef's choice 14 pieces of nigiri singles.
Hot Boxes - Chicken Teriyaki
Miso soup, green salad, rice, and sunomono salad.
Hot Boxes- Beef Teriyaki
Our grilled beef teriyaki bento box comes with miso soup, green salad, rice, sunomono salad and your choice of sushi or sashimi. Please select your option below.
Hot Boxes- Vegetable Tempura
An assortment of tempura vegetables served with miso soup, green salad, rice, sunomono salad, and your choice of sushi or sashimini. Please select below.
Hot Boxes
Obanzai
Teriyaki Chicken
Flame-broiled chicken with teriyaki sauce served with miso soup, rice, green salad, steamed vegetables.
Teriyaki Beef
Flame-broiled beef with teriyaki sauce served with miso soup, rice, green salad, steamed vegetables.
Beef Sukiyaki
Kettle boiled soup with loads of vegetables and beef, served with a bowl of rice.
Chicken Sukiyaki
Kettle boiled soup, with in house made delicious broth with loads of vegetables and chicken, served with a bowl of rice.
Hamachi Kama
Flame-broiled yellowtail collar on bed of rice served with savory sauce, takuan, sunomono and green onion.
Tori Udon
Traditional noodle soup with chicken and vegetables with udon noodles in a house made broth.
Nebayaki Udon
Beef, shiitaki mushrooms, egg, vegetables and tempura prawns with udon noodles and house made broth served in a traditional iron pot.
Giyuniku Udon
Succulent beef and vegetables with udon noodles in a house made broth.
Seafood Udon
Chef's choice selection of premium sushi grade seafood and vegetables, served with udon noodles in a house made broth.
Udon
Nigiri Sushi
Sake Nigiri
Salmon: smoked or fresh marinated.
Hamachi Nigiri
Yellowtail.
Maguro Nigiri
Tuna.
Tobiko Nigiri
Unagi Nigiri
Smoked freshwater eel.
Tamago Nigiri
Sweet omelet.
Ebi Nigiri
Cooked prawn.
Ama Ebi Nigiri
Raw sweet prawn with tempura heads.
Ikura Nigiri
Salmon roe.
Saba Nigiri
Pickled mackerel.
Hortategai Nigiri
Scallop.
Kamaboko Nigiri
Japanese fishcake (imitation crab).
Kani Nigiri
Cooked snow crab.
Katsuo Nigiri
Seared bonita tuna.
Uni Nigiri
Tako Nigiri
Boiled octopus.
Tsunami
Smoked salmon, avocado, smoked freshwater eel, macadamia nuts.
Sunrise
Tuna, flying fish roe, quail eggs.
Avalanche
Tuna, snow crab, mandarin orange, cashews, and coconut.
Kat in The Hat
Bonito tuna, scallop, flying fish roe, and smoked salmon.
Wild Scallop Mania
Tuna, scallop, salmon roe.
Ice Nine
Yellowtail, scallop, smoked salmon.
Mobo Jewel
Prawns, avocado, flying fish roe.
Scoobi-Do
Yellowtail, salmon roe, prawns.
Ebi & the Tide
Prawns, smoked salmon.
Deviations
Mobo Maki Maki
Presto Maki
Hamachi, basil, fresh garlic, macadamia nuts.
Maui Wowie Maki
Maguro, avocado, macadamia nuts.
Corruptor Maki
Unagi, basil, fresh garlic, macadamia nuts.
Tropi Maki
Unagi, avocado, macadamia nuts.
California Roll
Kamaboko, avocado, tobiko.
Spicy Tuna Maki
Maguro, and spicy sauce made in house. Very delicious.
Caterpillar Maki
Unagi and avocado wrapped on the outside, 2 tempura black tiger shrimps and more avocado inside.
Flying Tiger Maki
Tempura black tiger shrimp, kamaboko, lemon, negi, avocado, miso mayo.
Macrandy Roll
Unagi, smoked sake, cream cheese, macadamia nuts.
Pink Caddy Maki
Unagi, hamachi, smoked saki, mookie ebi, spicy mayo.
Beamer Maki
Kani, smoked sake, avocado, maguro, tobiko.
Starstruck Maki
Hamachi, smoked sake and avocado.
Philly Roll
Smoked sake, cream cheese.
Scooter Roll
Softshell crab, gobo, negi, lemon, cucumber, tobiko, avocado.
Roc N' Roll
Unagi, avocado.
Land Shark Maki
Unagi, avocado, macadamia nuts, shiitaki mushrooms, broiled hamachi, negi, lemon, and shizo leaves.
Negi Hama Maki
Hamachi, negi.
Sunset Maki
Maguro, tobiko, shizo leaves, negi.
Mad Dog Maki
Katso, lime, fresh marinated sake, negi, cucumber, spicy mayo.
Special K Maki
Unagi, smoked sake, lime, cashews, cream cheese.
Tazuna Maki
Our tazuna is a chefs choice assortment of fish wrapped on the outside of a roll, extra fancy rainbow roll *please allow extra time for this order.
Tekka Maki
Maguro rolled with rice and nori.
Holy Moly Maki
Mookie ebi, hamachi, avocado.
Shizo Fine Maki
Saba, avocado, lemon and shizo leaves.
Smoke Slammin Maki
Smoked sake, cilantro, lemon.
Krazy Kat Maki
Katsuo, fresh ginger, and garlic, negi, cilantro, spicy mayo.
Rolls Royce Maki
Rolls royce kamaboko, smoked sake, avocado, gari.
Sake Kawa Maki
Fried salmon skin chopped with lemon, negi and goma.
Stray Kat Maki
Katsuo, fresh ginger and garlic, shizo leaves.
Valhalla Maki
Fried salmon skin, mookie ebi, cream shizo leaves, lemon, negi, goma.
Moon Cruzer Maki
Hotategai, miso mayo, and tobiko.
Snowball Maki
Kani, mandarin orange, cashews, coconut.
Snow Maki
Kani, avocado.
Banana Slug Maki
A premium display of a double tazuna truly our most decadent delight. Its a great crowd pleaser *please allow extra time on this order.
Crabby Tom Maki
Tempura soft shell crab, takuan, gobo, cashews, smoked tofu, miso mayo.
Negi Tekkashin Maki
Maguro, negi, goma.
Miami Roll
Vegetarian. tempura yam, avocado, negi, lemon, miso mayo.
Guido Roll
Vegetarian. avocado, cream cheese, garlic, basil, macadamia nuts.
Crop Burning Roll
Vegetarian. avocado, cucumber, shiitaki, cilantro, spicy mayo.
Avocado Roll
A basic roll with rice, nori and avocado through out.
Iron Man Roll
Vegan. Smoked tofu, beets, spinach, shizo.
Arbor Maki
Vegan. avocado. Cashews, broccoli, cucumber.
Emerald City Roll
Vegan. avocado, shiitaki, carrot, daikon sprouts, black goma.
Kappa Maki
Vegan. cucumber rolled with rice and nori.
The Green Dragon Roll
Vegan. the green dragon, a vegetarian tazuna.
Futo Maki
Vegetarian. tamago, carrot, kampyo, broccoli, shiitaki.
Vern Maki
Vegetarian. cucumber, cilantro, shiitaki, gobo, spicy mayo.
Magic Maki
Vegan. avocado, shiitaki, macadamia, negi, gobo.
Gobo Maki
Vegan. gobo, cucumber, avocado.
Artishaw
Vegan. artichoke heart, avocado, cashews.
Ultimate Mushroom Maki
Vegan. shiitaki, negi, shizo.
Jana Roll
Vegetarian. tamago, avocado, negi, cashews.
Broccoli Roll
Vegetarian. broccoli, cashews, miso mayo.
Vegetarian Rolls
Kids Menu
Kids Popcorn Chicken
Tempura fried nugget size chicken served with teriyaki sauce and a bowl of rice.
Kids Bento Box
4 pieces of nori and sushi rice, tempura yam and avocado to roll your own roll. Served with small side of teriyaki chicken or beef (additional items are extra).
Kids Popcorn Shrimp
Tempura fried bay shrimp served with teriyaki sauce and a bowl of rice.
Kids Tofu Bowl
Bowl of rice with termpura tofu on top, served with teriyaki sauce.
Rice & Nori Roll
Roll Your Own
Specials
Crunch Dragon Roll
Tempura black tiger shrimp, crab, cucumber and avocado in a roll covered in spicy tuna, tempura flakes, spicy mayo & sweet sauce.
Spicy Big Mac Roll
Spicy tuna roll with cream cheese and avocado, then deep fried, served with sweet sauce, tobiko and green onion.
Death Star Roll
Tuna, basil, garlic, avocado, cream cheese and macadamia nuts.
Calamari Roll
Tempura calamari, avocado, lemon, green onions and miso mayo in a roll.
The Nor Cal Roll
California roll piled high with tempura popcorn shrimp, tobiko & sweet sauce.
Salmon Baker Roll
Crab, avocado, cream cheese in a roll with fresh salmon baked on top with special savory mayo served with sweet sauce, tobiko & green onions.
Surfing Asparagus Roll
Tempura asparagus with cream cheese, avocado, tempura yam topped with salmon & tuna.
Popcorn Chicken Roll
Tempura fried nugget size chicken with teriyaki sauce served with a bowl of rice.
Mobo Wrap
Tempura fried shrimp, snow crab, avocado and smoked salmon, wrapped in fresh cabbage, served with sweet sauce, tobiko and green onions.
Hot Toad Roll
Spicy tuna tempura rolled up with macadamias and green onion.
Grilled Skewered Tuna Roll
Flame broiled tuna served over rice with choice of tangy ginger sauce or thai peanut sauce.
Popcorn Shrimp Roll
Fresh Wasabi
Have you ever tried fresh wasabi...its delicious and something very special and traditional to try along with your items.
Ginger
Sweet Unagi Sauce
Spicy Mayo
A special house made spicy mayo that is amazing on everything.
Miso Dressing
Wasabi
Extras
Desserts
Tempura Banana
Tempura banana served with marin lemon glaze, sprinkled with fresh shizo and macadamia nuts.
Ice Cream
Vanilla, green tea, chocolate.
Tempura Banana with A Scoop of Ice Cream
Tempura banana served with marin lemon glae, sprinkled with shizo and macadamia nuts and a scoop of ice cream in the middle.
Tempura Ice Cream
Tempura green tea ice cream wrapped in butter pound cake. served with mirin lemon glaze, whipped cream and a cherry.