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Shogun Japanese Restaurant
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- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
19 reviews for Shogun Japanese Restaurant
I'm frankly surprised that people on here are bashing this place so much. I only ever get sushi and liquor when I go, so I can't speak for the other dishes (teriyaki, etc). For being in a ski resort town hundreds of miles from the ocean, the fish is fantastic. The miso soup is great, hamachi is buttery, the unagi is sweet and tender, and the drinks are generous. I've never had a problem with service in 15 years.
If you are expecting a Manhattan sushi experience at a Mammoth price, keep dreaming. Great sports on TV too.
HORRIBLE SERVICE!!!!!
Picture this: you're cold, starving - all you want is some sushi and a friend. You finally get into shogun after a 45 minute wait for the Mammoth Shuttle. When you arrive you are informed that you have to order immediately because it's 9:55 P.M. Saturday night on New Year's weekend and they're going to be closing soon. Actually, that would have been a nice way of putting it. Instead she rolled her eyes, and the servers sitting at the bar said "Are you F'ing kidding me?" They sat us at a dark table next to the kitchen and the bathroom, so that the cooks could glare at us the whole time, then laugh while we ate their cold, day old sushi. The only good part was our server (Erin), who felt bad for us because every one else in the restaurant was being so mean and rude. The food was terrible, and we ended up wishing we had gone across the street to Carl's Jr. instead. If I owned Shogun I would definitely hire new management, hosts, and cooks, because making your guests feel unwelcome and giving them awful food is not a good way to run a restaurant. We'll definitely be finding a different sushi restaurant from now on.
This is Japanese food from the 80's. The decor hasn't changed, the place was empty, we were seated promptly. The waitress was cool, but the bus boys wished they were still snowboarding on the mountain.
The food was palatable. The teriyaki was chopped up well-done steak smothered in teriyaki sauce to cover up the fact that the meat had no flavor. The tempura was the only redeemable food, but it too was 90% tempura batter, 10% shrimp. Typical Japanese menu for non-Asians, but the food quality sucked for the prices we paid. I could find better in a strip mall in Los Angeles for $8 a plate. I would never try the sushi so far from the ocean and I was right not to. The cooked entrees were warning enough.
Other than Thai'd Up, it's the only other Asian restaurant in Mammoth. It's got a lot of potential, but it's as if the owners gave up sometime after 1986.
You have to travel upstairs to reach the restaurant in this mini mall.
What can one do when Shogun is the ONLY Japanese restaurant in town? You suck it up and eat.
Our service was okay as it was early and we missed the dinner rush.
We sat in a booth near the large windows that overlook Old Mammoth Road.
I suggest drinking copious amounts of warm sake and eat lots of wasabi.
Bon appetite
alrite so I'm up in Mammoth with the fams enjoying the usual snowboarding, sledding, snowman building, yadda yadda..and we decide to go out for dinner.
The fams decides to eat at Shoguns, which I did not mind at all. The wait wasn't that bad. When we finally sat down the busser rudely gives us waters. He wasn't nice at all..kinda just threw the waters down.
The waitress seemed like she was in a hurry the way she took our order. Didn't really give us time and she quickly grabbed the menu out of our hands...geeezzz I know it was busy but hellooo..I'm in tourist mode...I would like to at least enjoy my dinner experience with my fams..
The food was ehh..had some sushi rolls and chicken teriyaki...sushi was alrite but the chicken was teriYUCKY...i usually eat allll my food, but this time i left the chicken alone.
Overall service was ehhh
Food was ehhh
Next time I come to Mammoth we'll get sushi elsewhere
On the Upside- waitress hooked it up with the Miso Soup..that got me feeling warm all over!!
For your waitress to continually admit that it is "just one of those nights" is not a good way of letting your customers know why the service was so bad.
Food was so so. We ordered a lot of sushi cuts and I ordered the calamari appetizer and chicken skewers dinner. Chicken seemed a little dry and unflavorful even with the teriyaki sauce and the sushi was ok. My brother kept complaining that the rice was not good... and the fish in the rolls weren't as fresh as you would expect on a mountain in central california.
Service wasn't great either, we got a little attitude from both our hostess and waitress because we asked for things that are typically asked for (ie a table, water, drink menu). When our waitress brought our drink menu it didn't have the inserts in it, so we waited longer for drinks.
LOL. super funny thing too... my brother was drinking his coke and the waitress went to refill my boyfriend's drink. She asked if she could take my brother's drink while he was mid drinking so that she can refill it (the drink wasn't even half empty yet). I guess she didn't want to make two trips.
I was excited to try this place out because, well, I love Japanese restaurants. It was my first time up in Mammoth so I was excited as can be especially it was our first night there and we just decided to go out and celebrate as a group. Our group was between 16-18 people (I forget how many exactly).
The service was poor. It was kind of late night but still not close to closing and the place wasn't even full! There's something definitely wrong with that picture!
The wait for the food was long and the waitress kept taking really long to check up on our table. The food itself was at most average but considering that it's up in the mountains, that might be good for the locals.
The only thing that made the night worth it is that we all were together we were able to enjoy each other's company.
I will have to say, "yuck". The sushi was bad. The rice was bad. The service was ehh..
Is this the only Japanese place in town? I guess so since they're still in business. My advice is if you're jonesing for some sushi, drive elsewhere. Make a day trip somewhere. Just don't go here. They give sushi and Japanese a bad name.
Pretty bad. Waitress was terrible. Brought the wrong food. They did not even have decent teriyaki, how hard is it to make teriyaki? Sushi was small, poor quality and pricey.
Eek Methinks not is right! We actually made a pact a few years ago to never never never go again, which was the third time we made that pact. Don't listen to anyone that says it's better than it used to be, or that the people you heard from must be food snobs, or whatever lame reason they give you. They are all wrong. Seriously, this place is horrible.
Long wait most times, and I'm okay with that if it's worth it. So not worth the wait. Every single employee we have ever encountered there knows nothing about customer service. Any time I have put in any type of special request it has been ignored. Every time we've been there the server has forgotten at least one item completely, yet still left it on our bill. Try dealing with a young, rude server or worse, the manager, that doesn't believe you didn't receive your spicy scallop roll, or that you should have mentioned it earlier so they could keep you there another 20 minutes when everyone is really ready to go home.
Never, never, never again. I mean it this time, do not try to sway me!
sushi in a mountain may seem counter-intuitive. I know I always go into land-locked Japanese restaurants a bit warily, and Shogun is no exception. I've been a half-dozen times, with varying results. But this most recent time (a relatively busy Saturday night during the winter season) was a great experience.
We had a table of five hungry people and proceeded to order a ton of food; chicken skewer appetizers (great), gyoza appetizer (overcooked and mushy), edamame (cold; I prefer warm), sake (good) and some poke salads (very good).
We had all sorts of sushi orders including maki rolls, hand rolls, sushi and sashimi. All the fish was fresh and tasty, the seaweed crisp and good - our only universal complaint was the quality of the rice. It was a bit too sticky and sweet. But it's tough to cook anything in water at altitude...
Service was very good and prices are OK; overall a good experience and I'm sure i'll be back there again with another group.
Shogun is located in the shopping center above Mammoth Sporting Goods, across from the Vons and Carl's Jr. Parking above and below ground.
WARNING: If you eat here, be prepared to be very sick with FOOD POISONING!!!!!! What more can I say?
This is the sister restaurant to Yamatani in Bishop. Though they are owned by the same guy, this location is in dire need of good service. Their sushi is okay but the sushi chef is the rudest person you'd want to serve you. He doesn't smile, ignores you, and rolls his eyes if you ask for anything special. Avoid this place and and it's worth the drive to Bishop for great sushi and service.
It's al' right.
Great sake bombs though!
This place is ok. The service is good. The food is just average. They give you huge portions so you go comatose and forget about how it tastes.
This place used to have a LONG wait and BAD service. But, the last few times I have been here, I've had great experiences!!
When every other restaurant in town seems to have lines out the doors, this place has only been a 20 min wait. The food has been pretty good (considering it's sushi in the mountains). The service has been excellent the last few times too.
This place seems to attract less tourists since the village has been open.
I think this is the only Japanese restaurant in Mammoth Lakes. There were 2 others we found, but they had been closed down. I guess this cuisine doesn't fare well in the area. Anyway, the sushi and rolls were pretty horrible. Definitely not fresh and actually pretty rubbery. The rest of the generic Japanese dishes (teriyakis and tempuras) were average. This place is probably still in business, because it's the only Japanese cuisine within 300 miles. It was decent enough to satisfy a Japanese food fix.
I used to come here all the time and always had decent enough sushi that I would come back, but lately the attitude of the staff has gotten worse and so has the quality of the food. Forget it Angelino's, there is no sushi to be had in Mammoth.
I've been here about 5 times, only ate sushi once. It was pretty good. The bar is on the way in, so I usually end up just walking in and seeing the people I came to meet. This place know how to get you drinks in a timely manner. Great service!
