W & Z Asian Bistro & Sushi Bar

I grew up 20 min from the ocean, and am admittedly a seafood snob. This is by far the best sushi I have found on the mountain. Their fish always tastes fresh and they have some very interesting rolls.
They recently opened the sports bar side of the building and the room is cool, and the drink specials are great.

Great fresh food! The servers are super friendly and are willing to explain the dishes that I didn’t understand. I also loved that they had their bar open with some good choices. Tried the green tea martini they had on special, I loved it! And that’s a lot for me because I don’t like anything with vodka!
I will definitely be coming back to this place!

The ingredients in the dishes are fresh and cooked perfectly. The snow peas are cooked but still crisp. The presentation of the Sushi is first class. The service is also very good. We don’t go out much for meals but when we do this is the place!

Stopped in to check it out and have a beer. What an awesome ‘sports bar’ separate from the restaurant. Didn’t eat but menu looks great. Bar is modern rustic, very clean with high tops, fireplace and plenty of TVs for sports events. Good selection of beers and wines and AWESOME happy hour prices.
A definite place to hang out, can’t wait to try the food next time.
UPDATE: My GF and I have eaten here at least 8x now trying different items. Everything we’ve had has been excellent and comparable to any high dollar Scottsdale restaurant. Prices are right and have never been let down (yet). Even the yellow tail was fresh and very good. Best part for us, never crowded!

Order took about an hour to arrive after ordering. Ordered stir fry vegetables. The vegetables were cold, rotten, and came out of a bag. The server refused to bring it back to the kitchen, ended up paying full price for the worst dinner I’ve had in a long time.
Bland food, no taste, over priced, and bad service!

Stopped here for lunch on Sunday. The sign said they don’t serve off the lunch menu?
About the music… too loud and it was really strange… elevator cover songs…“Let It Go,” and a song by Eminem! Not for a restaurant!
The menu is very large and covers a huge variety of types of Asian foods and I think that may be where the problems starts. I ordered Malaysia flat rice noodles with shrimp. What I got were regular thin noodles. Shrimp was good… overall not much flavor.
My son ordered on ordered Curry with beef. No flavor. Simply too many choices for the lichen to do well.
Just wanted to mention because Unilocaled brought me here! Come on Unilocalers! Bring me to great resaurants, not just great for the town it resides in!

I have been here for couple times, it is always good. I wrote this review because I saw something on the web said the sushi is over price. This is small town, the only restaurant we can find the good sushi is HERE!!! When you trying to go out to eat that means it doesn’t matter how much you gonna be spend, if somebody really care about the price, the better way is: stay at home, cook it for yourself. For me the sushi here is the top of the mountain here!

Visiting the area for the first time and went here due to sushi cravings and high reviews. Some definite pros and cons:
Pros:
–Nice atmosphere
–The deluxe general tso’s (with shrimp) is the best we have ever had! The sauce was
To die for and the shrimp was
Huge and the true star of the dish. White meat chicken with only a few inedible pieces due to gristle.
Cons:
–Some of the least friendly and attentive service we have had in quite some time. No smile, walked away (more than once) while we were finishing order or asking a question
–fried rice was fried in butter, not Asian oil. Ordered veggie version and hardly any veggies aside from a few stray peas and onion chunks.
–the sushi was the biggest disappointment. Sweet potato tempura roll not cooked all the way through and was very hard and not all of our shrimp was cooked on the shrimp California roll.
We will not be back, unless we desperately want general tso’s.

Décor was very pleasant, menu could be a little more descriptive on dishes but staff was super helpful.
For being in a smaller area I was very surprised of the quality and presentation. Would definitely come back.

Excellent! Great service and really good food! Great place to eat on the mountain. We had cashew chicken. Beef curry. Mango chicken. Hibachi chicken and several sushi rolls. All were great!

Because we didn’t want to eat Mexican or American bar food while we were staying in Show Low — we took a little drive over to lakeside for some asian food. It was a bit pricier than normal — a small bowl of simply boiled edamame was $ 5 but maybe that’s the price for getting food to that small town — logistics and all.
We ordered Chinese food since the kitchen and waitress spoke Mandarin to one another: a plate of beef with black bean sauce that came with a tiny bowl of white rice and chicken lo mein. Those dishes were good. Oh I forgot, husband ordered a spicy tuna hand roll — it wasn’t all that great, but wasn’t bad.
The décor was modern, not Asian. It seems to be a nice date place if you live there :). The restaurant is clean.

Very good Japanese in the Mountains. Menu has a Nice blend of Habachi, tempura, bento boxes, sushi and sashimi.

They have come to the point where they no longer have the original staff and the quality has seriously depreciated. The wait staff is no longer attentive and courteous. They are abrupt and rude. I called in an order to go and the new hostess speaks very little English and I was not sure she got my order correct. When I got there to pick it up, I had asked a waiter to help verify that the order was right and he was very rude and degrading to me. Sad. I once got excited to come here. Now I don’t know if I will ever return.

Awesome place N awesome food. Easy to order n quick delivery by these guys. Definitely recommend while you are at Showlow AZ or white mountain area.

Love this place. They have some sushi, hibachi, thai, chinese, and so far everything has been delicious!

very good good, has variety of food, from Thai, Japanese, Chinese. They are authentic. plus the price is reasonable for the amount of food. Will come back again.
don’t froget the desert.

Wow What a surprise up here in nowhere land :) everything we had was delicious and we are picky eaters, we travel as much as we can and love to try different restaurants.
Sweet and sour soup was as good as I ve had anywhere, Malayasian flat rice noodles were excellent, and the sesame chicken was delicious, not something we would normally get but my 3 year old daughter saw it on another table so she said she wants the «chicken with sparkles», of course she had one bite and that was it. Great place and great service :)

These guys were very patient with our larger group, that’s for sure. The waiter was friendly.
The pad thai didn’t seem authentic. It was a watered down version of the typically bold-​flavored dish.
The thai curry bowl: same thing. Everything seemed on the bland side and watered down.

This location opened only a few days ago, and with great anticipation, I just had lunch at their establishment. In a word: WOW! Where to start? What a beautiful restaurant inside. I ordered the Japanese Lunch Box with Teriyaki steak– cooked to your desired temp! That lunch included Miso Soup (light and fresh), Salad, California Roll, Pot Stickers and Rice. I’ll be attaching the pictures as well. The roll was delicious, the steak cooked perfectly, the freshly steamed vegetables were amazing and the pot stickers quite possibly the best I’ve ever had. My wife had the white meat Sesame Chicken, and it was equally delicious, and on par with our favorite haunt in Colorado Springs (China Village). The service was likewise impeccable! I can’t wait to work my way through their entire menu. I sincerely hope this establishment is embraced by the locals — because such a gem of a Asian restaurant is hard to find, anywhere, anymore and has been impossible on the mountain. Quite literally, better than any I’ve tried in the Phoenix area! Reasonably priced and considering the quality of ingredients, amazingly priced lunches. They have a gorgeous bar area, but I was told they are waiting on their liquor license. I haven’t been this excited about a restaurant on the mountain since moving back here! Congrats W&Z, awesome job!
To those complaining about the prices, you get what you pay for… Just because this area is «rural» doesn’t mean we should expect everything ridiculously cheap. Those quality ingredients don’t come cheap, especially up here on the mountain. I’ll gladly pay a few dollars more per entrée and enjoy my meal!

This is a new Japanese sushi restaurant located in Pinetop/​Lakeside.
The restaurant is very clean, including the bathrooms.
My husband ordered the sushi, the Tuna Lovers. Even though he said it was very well made and tasty, but this normally $ 9 roll was $ 12. The sushi is expensive. He says this restaurant is made more for the tourists, more of a high-​end place, not really for the local folk. (We are local).
I ordered the Cashew Chicken, which was delicious! It had a LOT of mushrooms in it, and I’m not a fan of mushrooms… but my hubby and bro-​in-​law ate then for me. It had sauce on it, and I was pleased it was the perfect amount… not too much or too little.
Our son got the Sesame Chicken, which I would order when we go back. It was my favorite! It came with broccoli.
The Coconut Rice was great! That is one of my favorites, and I am happy they have it here! You have to pay extra for that, but that’s okay.
Bro-​In-​Law got an Eggplant dinner. He said it was undercooked and bitter. He was also was surprised it was Italian eggplant and not Japanese eggplant. I didn’t try it, since I do not like eggplant.
We all talked afterwards and would go back here. The service was excellent, the staff very friendly. We give 4 stars, since the prices are higher than other Asian restaurants up here. The edamame was $ 5, which is crazy. I need to add that we ate during dinner. I’m sure the lunch menu is much cheaper.
I loved what I ordered and would be happy to come back!