Samurai Sushi

Located near costco, this small unassuming sushi restaurant packs one of the best lunch deals in town!

They have a five item lunch menu. Beef, Chicken or Salmon + vegetable tempura, rice, salad, soup, and a couple of pieces of california roll. Depending on the meat, $5.99 or $6.99. It's all very good, and the presentation is excellent. The other two items consist of Udon (a thick noodle soup, very good!) and either a california roll or a spicy tuna roll.

Samurai also sells rolls and nigiri sushi at a very reasonable price. This is one of the few places where you can just order off of the sushi menu and not get your wallet cleaned out. The sushi is exceptionally well prepared with good sized pieces of fish and the fish always tastes fresh. The rolls are works of art in themselves. I have eaten at virtually every sushi restaurant in the valley and there are only two worth returning to. This is one of them.

On the whole, an excellent place to eat lunch.

Joel

woof!

The blurry image you see used to be an A&W restaurant. The A&W went out of business and has been replaced by a mexican food restaurant. Sounds like a place we should try!

And so we did. We both ordered a #2, which was a taco, a tostada and two taquitos + guacamole. What we got was this: really bad meat type product in a deep fried hard shell with lettuce and beans in the shape of a taco, really bad meat type product in a deep fried hard shell in the shape of a taquito, and the same beans and lettuce dropped on top of a deep fried tortilla type product. In essence, the same ingredients, prepared the same way, in three different shapes.

I'm pretty sure the cafeteria at the local retirement home uses more spices than we encountered in the meal itself. Even liberal application of salsa couldn't overcome the bland factor, and the tortilla like product bore no resemblance in flavor or texture to any tortilla I've ever had. I ended up throwing most of lunch away and my stomach still feels upset.

If every single other restaurant in Victorville closed and this was the only place left ... I'd eat at home.

woof!

Joel