Shogun Steakhouse

My review seems to have vanished. Let's try again: Shogun is a five-star restaurant, offering excellent sushi to a small college town at amazingly reasonable prices.

Now, details:

1) Anybody posting that prices are high here is unfamiliar with cost ratios for sushi restaurants. One cannot get excellent sushi for less, anywhere. Period. If you want supermarket sushi, visit Food Lion.

2) Although the sushi menu is restricted by demand (no surf clams, toro, or uni, for example), the quality of what is offered is exceptional. The seafood is impeccably fresh, the portions are remarkably generous, and the limited menu is perfectly prepared. As an aside, I discuss sourcing with the sushi chef...Shogun is working remarkably hard to acquire the finest raw ingredients for their menu.

3) My wife often chooses the steak and lobster hibachi option. Again, the culinary work is excellent, and the portions are too generous.

4) The service is great small-town friendly. I strongly suspect that I know sushi better than my servers, but they really, really try hard to make us feel happy on every visit. That's rather rare these days, and my wife and I appreciate the sincere effort to make our visit happy.

This isn't just a "five-star" review...I'm trying to describe that Shogun is a top one percent restaurant for its price range, and that for anybody appreciating Japanese cuisine, this is a place you must visit.

Our server Kayla was awesome and my daughter seemed to really enjoy her meal. They were right there when we entered and seated us right away and made sure that they met our needs. I was not a fan of the dressing as I found it too sweet and felt that my steak was a little too saucy but over all I think it was pretty good.

Food is astoundingly good, especially the sushi. Service is great, and the atmosphere is quiet and peaceful. Very much enjoyed myself.

Good food, brought to the table relatively swift despite everything being made fresh. Calm, quiet environment. The waiters and waitresses are also usually quite pleasant. The place usually stays at least half empty though, no idea what's up with that. Not saying that's a bad thing, I just think it's unusual for such a nice place.