Samurai Steakhouse

Best sushi and hibachi chicken in Central Arkansas. Their Miso Soup tastes better than any other restaurant I’ve been to! It has the perfect amount of tofu and onion and the bean curd isn’t overly fermented. It’s kanzen 🤌🏻 I love it on a cold winter day. Their staff is also very friendly and quick service. A little on the pricey side for dinner but 100000% worth it! I always have enough left over for 2 meals!

Today was my first visit to Samurai and I loved it!! The host was welcoming and helped me decide to eat there. I chose to sit at the sushi bar, and my server was very helpful. She verified my order, brought me chopped lemon for my water, and was very attentive refilling my water. The sushi was very fresh and the chef had a lovely presentation for the nigiri. He also made me a fresh cucumber salad which was very tasty; and the miso soup was also flavorful and nourishing. I will definitely be back the next time I am in Benton!

We ate at Samurai for dinner yesterday. Our two orders of New York Strip Hibachi: The Medium steak was past well done, very tough. It tasted like it was leftover steak that was cooked the day before that was reheated and served. The Medium Rare was cooked correctly, but both steaks had tons of gristle in them. Every 3-5 bites were unchewable. The vegetables they served, which weren't many, tasted like pure soy sauce. These also tasted like reheated vegetables from the previous day. (We were the first ones in the door when they opened) We didn't order fried rice, but they served us fried rice and up-charged us anyways. The food was the worst Hibachi I've ever had. I've ate here before and it was good, both at the Hibachi seating and the normal dining seating. Our ticket for food that non of my family ate was over $60.. and I informed the server about the food quality and she took off one entree off of our ticket. I didn't want to pay a dime. I spoke with three different employees asking if something had changed, trying to let them know about the food so they can un-change a recent change or something, but no luck. They denied the food was from a previous day. They also told me that I should expect the food to taste different because it is cooked in the kitchen and not on a hibachi grill. It also takes time to bring it out from the kitchen. (Their words...). I let them know that, on the menu, it is advertised as Hibachi Steak etc. and they are selling it for ~$25 an entree, the taste shouldn't be worlds different. It was a few hours before I could get the taste of salt out of my mouth. Samurai, what you're doing is dishonest. If you ask people to pay $25 for Hibachi, I expect a decent serving of vegetables that I can taste, no gristle (at least not much)... I feel robbed.

AMAZING! It was our first time eating here, and coming here with my family for my birthday. I could not have asked for anything better. My is visiting from Arizona and he was pleasantly pleased. We tried quite a few items on the sushi menu and my husband got a beef hibachi meal and he is hard to please and he even enjoyed himself. Thank you for a great birthday dinner!