Three Samurai

Three Samurai is the best place in town for sushi and good times!! Sunday nights have the best prices. Last time I was there I got 4 delicious sushi rolls, an appetizer, and 4 drinks. I walked out for under 30bucks! The place is always busy and service can be a bit slow because of it. Obviously, you have to take that into consideration - - if you go to one of the most popular places in town, you might have to wait awhile! Sit at the bar, that way you can enjoy some drinks and chatter while waiting for your sushi.
Bottom Line: you might have to wait a while, but it is well worth it! Fresh and delicious with friendly service!

Went to Three Samurai Sunday evening. The staff and Management is the best in TOWN.... They are always busy and the sushi takes a little longer on the discount nights. But you have to be understanding with the prices the are the lowest in town. Craig always finds time to stop by and ask how we are and that go‘s a long way. Way to go Three Samurai still number one in our book...

I LOVE Three Samurai! Its always the best place to go for fun, good food, and friendly servers! The food can take a little longer, but that is kind of expected for such a busy place! We always have an accomidating and friendly server who makes our experience even better. My friends and I love going there and highly reccomend it to everyone!

We took our son there for his University graduation party.
The grill cook was very entertaining but the wait to even see him and the lack of attention was pathetic. We had to "find" someone to order anything to drink more than once. If the entire family had not been there, and it hadn‘t been a party for our son, I think we would have walked out. I called and complained to the manager the next day and he promised some gift certificates, asked for my address and said he would send them right out...I never saw them and have never gone back. That was 2 years ago and I see by other reviews nothing has changed!!

I love going to Three Samurai for sushi. There prices are very reasonable. I enjoy sitting at the sushi bar with my family. The sushi makers are all exceptionally nice. The waitstaff can be slow but the food is worth the wait. Yeah, if you order a meal it will take a while, but it‘s not a fast food restaurant. Best place for sushi in the Iowa City area.

Best Sushi I have ever had. I‘m not sure what type of service the other customers had, but they gave FANTASTIC service to my wife and I on our anniversary. She and I both were very pleased with the quality of the food, the speed of service, and the all around customer service. This is the best Sushi I‘ve had in years. The spicy tuna roll is reallllly good! We will back for sure! Thanks guys!

Three samurai has always been my favorite Japanese restaurant but the service is really bad. The wait staff is very slow even if there are not many other customers there. Never try to go on your lunch break. I usually get take out now so that I don‘t have to sit there for 2 hours. The food tastes wonderful. Sometimes they don‘t answer their phone or they take it off the hook which is really frustrating. I don‘t think they‘ll get by on just having good tasting food and it‘s a shame they don‘t try to improve their service to match the wonderful food.

We went to Three Samurai for the first time last night. The prices were very reasonable for sushi, but the sushi itself was very underwhelming. The spicy tuna roll was pretty good, but the shrimp tempura roll was not--I‘ve never had a "not very good" shrimp tempura roll anywhere before. We also had the shrimp and vegetable tempura appetizer, which was not only lackluster but it also tasted like the oil in the fryer needed to be changed.

All in all, I guess I‘d go to Three SAmurai for sushi if I was having a sushi emergency (haha), but I‘m not eager to return there.

When we lived in Coralville a couple years ago, it was a weekly tradition to go there and eat. It was our favorite place to go. Then we moved away for a couple years and are now back in Coralville. We have been to the restaurant several times and it seems the magic isn‘t there any longer. We always have terrible service, even when it isn‘t busy. When we order take out to bypass the poor service the food size is half of the sit in amount. The only reason it is a problem is that my wife and I split the main dish but when we do take out it isn‘t enough food. Anyway, I‘m giving this such a terrible score because of the disappointment the place is now, compared to what fun it used to be. Get some new staff, and we‘ll be back. Note, the food is great and so is the sushi.

If it weren‘t for the exceptional quality of the food, I‘d rate this restaurant below poor. I adore the food - it is always top-notch. But I often avoid the place because service is hit or miss and wait time is RIDICULOUS. And just try to call for carry-out or to make a reservation. They take the phone off the hook!!! Tried to get through for 2 HOURS one day! Come on! At least give your customers a recording if you‘re too busy to answer the phone.

I went to Three Samurai on a Thursday night for happy hour. I understand that the wait might be a little longer because of this. My friend arrived at 8:30 and were not seated until 9pm (we were told a 20 minute wait). After that, our waitress did not come to our table for another 20 minutes, even though she didn‘t seem to have very many tables to wait on--it seemed that she was too busy taking shots with the sushi chefs. I went to three samurai for half price sushi, when I tried to ordered I was discouraged by the waitress because she said it would take an hour--sushi is the only reason I went there! I decided to wait it out. Finally we got our soup and salad. A half hour after our soup and salad plates were removed, the waitress came around to apologize for the wait on the sushi, and asked if we wanted a free soup or salad--even though we had already had some. My friend‘s food arrived and he finished it well before my sushi arrived. The roll I ordered finally came. I finished that and by that time no longer wanted to rest of my meal. Twenty-five minutes later, my sushi finally arrived. However, my glass of water had not been filled in over a half hour. The waitress rarely stopped by to check on us. I asked her for a box for my sushi and she brought me a white Styrofoam box...not the small plastic sushi ones. I have had a good time there before at the hibachi tables but I refused to go there ever again. The wait staff acts bored and more concerned with taking Saki bombs. I lost track of how many times our waitress said ‘I‘m sorry‘. The restaurant itself could be wonderful, but the staff makes it unpleasant.

This place is the best in town......I love it.

I used to come to this place all the time, loved the environment, and the people. Stopped in recently, and everyone that was seated behind us was getting their soup before anyone had even come to our table to ask us for drinks. The host was exremely rude, never uttered a word to us. I will not go back, it‘s a shame, but I don‘t wait 25 minutes for a glass of water.

The food was great but what really made my dining experience was one of the staff members. The manager Adam makes it a point to go to every table to make sure everything is ok. He‘s polite, friendly...and on a side note...is very attractive and has one of the best smiles I‘ve ever seen. Mama like!

I looove Three Samurai - it‘s always the restaurant we choose for girls nights because it‘s simply delicious. I love the white spicy tuna and the chicken teriyaki. They have a great variety of sushi rolls and if you like hibachi grills, theirs is awesome.

hard to get good sushi around here. my clam was strangely gray, the egg was rubbery, and the avocado was over the hill but most things were still tasty and i was just happy to be having something other than supermarket california rolls. come on, it‘s not japan after all. fun place, nice atmosphere. thumbs up. make sure to get some miso. good stuff.

Food is great! But is does cost a lot of money for what you get. Drinks are expensive, but where aren‘t they! I keep going back. The show gets alittle old they always do the same thing.

Superfluous food. The five spice pork and shitaki mushrooms are the best.

awesome food but to much money!

Amazing!!! awesome food/people, definately a great atmosphere for a party!!!

AWESOME FOOD! sometimes they take forever and a day

I called to place a reservation, and was on hold for over five minutes, and the person on the phone was rude to me.

new management... much better service now... food still great.. still good looking cooks there like the mexican looking one

Incredible!!! HIGHLY recommend the chicken teriyaki...at noon it comes in a laquered box with a number of different foods in the various sections...including excellent tempura. Do order the clear soup, and a wonderful appetizer that started with the letter "g" (sorry, my memory fails me.) The meal was fabulous!

Great food, atmosphere, sushi and service. Sake bombs!

The Three Samurai is an amazing restaurant! My friends and I had a wonderful time watching our chef prepare the food. It was definetlly a night we will remeber for the rest of our lives!

The food is awesome and its such a fun atmosphere! It can be expensive depending on what you order, but its worth it!

such a fun time, and neat experience. make sure to get a group and sit infront of the grills, its an entertaining show!

Terrible service. Manager doesn‘t care! It‘s sad to pay that much for poor service. I will continue to travel to Cedar Rapids.

This place is awesome...