Samurai Grill Sushi - Albuquerque

I love this place. Favorite place to eat in Albuquerque. I always get the bento boxes: wonderful tempura vegetables and protein (shrimp, mushroom, zuccini, bell pepper, sweet potato) with a dipping sauce, salmon or other protein selection, fried pot stickers, California roll pieces sticky rice. Oh, and off their sushi menu I get the lobo roll: it is a baked roll that has great sauces, cream cheese and baked salmon on top. Yum.

My wife and I love this place for the Sushi and sake selection. They sell flights of it. Also it’s the only place I can go and have actually good real sushi and sashimi and an Orion beer. The staff is awesome. Sometimes they get busy so don’t be in a hurry, but trust me, it’s worth it.

The food and service were very good. The building on the inside needs a complete refresh. They seemed to be short-handed, at least at the chef position.

We went for a birthday celebration! There were 5 of us which worked out great for the table we had which seats 5. We thought the teppenyaki style would add a little more fun to the celebration! They gave us bottomless soft drinks and raspberry tea. We ordered chicken dumplings, pan fried, they were your typical fried from frozen faire, rather boring, with soy sauce to dip them in. For the main course we had cubed NY steak and chicken breast. The show started off with preparing the fried rice, followed by veggies and finally the shrimp and meats. Our preparer must have been having an off day, because this was the most boring teppenyaki show I've ever sat through. No enthusiasm, no joking around, no fun! The show is why you go to a place like this! A total go through the motions let down. For dessert they brought the honoree a fried ice cream, the vanilla center was good but the fried outside was bland and tasteless. We tipping our teppenyaki chef $20 and another $20 for the rest of the wait staff, but I felt it was undeserved. Maybe this restaurant has existed too long and they've forgotten what makes a place like this special.

The dinner was so amazing. Very filling with big portions. For the price you pay, we have had leftovers for two days. Totally worth it. Our server was not the nicest but Hector our chef was AMAZING. Tip him big time, hes so funny and makes the whole experience worth it. I would go at a non bust time. We went 3pm on a Saturday with no one there.