Yoshi’s Restaurant

I highly recommend the Dragon bowl, delish!!! Plenty of chicken, tasty vegetables. I would come again. Next time Going to try the white teriyaki chicken bowl.

I just spent the last 24 hours vomiting in my bathroom due to food poisoning. I don’t think they cook their chicken all the way.

As much as I wanted to truly love this place. I don’t. What better could one ask for? Drive-​thru teriyaki? Sign me up! Well. After my second visit, I think I’d rather unsubscribe.
My first visit was later in the evening for dinner. I ordered a chicken teriyaki bowl with a side of spring rolls. Service was lackluster but prompt at the drivethrough window. The teriyaki bowl was of rational size. The chicken was a little charred and crispy, which isn’t super appetizing in a teriyaki bowl. The teriyaki sauce itself was SO sweet, I don’t even want to imagine how it’s made. Probably about three times sweeter than other fast-​casual teriyaki joint’s sauces. But, being hungry I wolfed it down.
The second time I came here was also for dinner. I got one of their yakisoba bowls, which is advertised (I think) as a citrus yakisoba. Again, this dish was SO sweet. Even sweeter than the teriyaki. The sauce tasted similar to orange marmalade. This dish was not so great, and I decided it was easier to be hungry than to eat the rest.
The only real pleasurable thing I’ve had here was their spring rolls. They were fairly good. Not amazing, but good.
I really wanted to love this place, but it’s hard to even try to when the food has been consistently below average.

Convenient for quick lunch and reasonably priced. I ordered teriyaki salmon rice bowl. Lunch rice bowl is more of rice than the topping. It was fast to order and eat between meetings. Their drive-​through is also convenient.

That’s right, five stars. But that’s based on my first visit, so take it with a grain of salt.
Right across the street from a light rail stop, nice happy hour, free wifi (!!), and teriyaki chicken that’s really good. Seriously, I’ve paid tons more for worse teriyaki at loud sushi bars. The chicken had a great charbroiled flavor, it wasn’t rubbery and fake, the veggies were crisp and fresh, and the sauce was flavorful — so much better than the wad of gloppy corn syrup nastiness I’ve come to expect from mall food courts.
I would definitely have taken off a star or two if I’d gotten some of the terrible service I read about in other reviews, but for me it was fine. There was only one lady working the register and the drive through, so I can see how it wouldn’t take much of a crowd to overload her, but I got lucky.

Panda Express orange chicken is better.
What I got tasted like it was was already cooked and they threw it back in the fryer to warm up. The chicken was so dry and the batter was hard. Almost inedible.
I tried the yakisoba once and it wasn’t that good either. The soba noodle soup is pretty decent. Bottom line, the only thing here I recommend here is the happy hour special teriyaki bowl.

Just finished having lunch there for the first time. Was going to Subway on 24^th Street and Indian School and saw the Yoshi’s sign, thought I’d check it out first. Well, if you are familiar with Samari Sam’s its basically the same concept. Many of the same menu items and bowls as SSam’s. I’d have to agree with some of the reviews on here about the taste of dirty or tap water with the veggies/​rice. I’m sure it’s not a health code violation although I just ate, we’ll see in a few mins (crossing fingers).
I’d say if you are craving this type of menu it’s not that bad, pretty decent taste and the egg roll was nice and fried and crispy just how I like it. I do have to say the cashier could be a little more happy to take my order. She wasn’t rude or anything just kinda, bleh as far as her demeanor. Oh well, she probably was just having a bad day, but that and the small funny taste was the only negatives I can say about this place. I’ll probably go back again when I’m craving this type of menu, it just won’t be anytime soon. Maybe in a few weeks or so. Hope this review helps you.

I have been there many times. It is close to my work so I eat there quit often. They mainly serve rice bowls and you can get an egg roll on the side for cheap. They’re nothing outstanding but the food is decent and fast.

I saw the sign for the happy hour chicken teriyaki bowl, but it was a couple of minutes past the special cut off at 5pm. I thought I would ask anyway. If not, no big deal, but I would get something besides teriyaki chicken.
I asked about the special, and the girl behind the counter said she would ask her manager if they could do one more, and disappeared to the back. When she returned she said the manager OK’d her to do one more, but I would have to wait for the manager to override the cash register. I handed the manager my card, and I noticed that she had rang it up for full price. I asked «What about the happy hour special?», but the manager said they were not doing anymore today. I looked at the employee and she just shrugged. Being on my way to a meeting, I didn’t have time to argue.
Digging into the teriyaki chicken I found a lot of vegetables and little chicken. Worse yet, the rice was warm, but the chicken and vegetables were cold. Obviously this was cold, leftover food that they partially reheated, and tossed on top of some rice. This low grade dog food wouldn’t even cut it for a discount special.

This place has ok food, would come here because it was closer to me. Now I make the drive to Tokyo Express instead. They really upset me one day when they were clearly open but would not serve me via drive thru and demanded that I come inside if I wanted food. Of course I drove off in a fit and hungry haha.

Ok, I say this all of the time to friends and coworkers, so I will just say it here… u believe present staff has really turned this place around. The food is tastier, friendly staff is always good… I’m the beginning I only went Yoshi’s because someone else dragged me there! Now the food is just good!

I have been going to Yoshi’s for nearly 20 years. Over that time the service has declined tremendously. The last time we were in was about a year ago. They were supposed to bring us out our food but we waited for over 30 MINUTES and no one ever showed up and I couldn’t even find the person, so we just left.
So today my girl suggests Yoshi’s. we go to the location on Central. I start to order my food and the line cook lady says, «I’m not making those.» (referring to a veggie sushi roll item). I said I would wait if necessary but. same thing. Nothing. And the cashier just stood there trying not to laugh!!!
Was so pissed I drove to the 24^th st location in an attempt to speak with the owner who is usually there during the days but no dice. was told that he was gone. So I left my phone number for the owner to contact me but nothing yet.
I will update this when/​if he ever does.
Until then, I am never setting foot in Yoshi’s again. Good luck running a business with employees like that. you’ll need it.

I know I don’t look it but I’m actually of Japanese descent and I have eaten Japanese food everywhere from my Grandma’s kitchen to Sashimi in Hong Kong to Japan itself and I try not to be an overly
critical food snob but frankly this is exactly the food a persons imagination would conjure of you said «I got some Japanese food in Arizona» it’s average quality… Confused ingredients and the rice is over cooked as hell and funny tasting

I’m still not sure what a spent $ 8 on. The food was cooked well, but it had a funky taste like the rice was cooked in dirty water. I’m not a fan simply because it was overpriced and the food was sub-​par.

Horrible! The rice tasted it was steamed with dirty water and the quality of the meat was very poor! I heard good things about it so I tried it! Will never be going there again!

Solid rice bowls for quick, savory, reasonably priced meals. Been a patron of Yoshi’s for nearly ten years they are consistently clean, with considerate service, and flavorful rice bowls. Here and at their 24^th St & Indian School location. They have some tributes hanging up here to sports celebrities that are fans of Yoshi’s so that is cool to see. Confirmed that the Happy Hour special is at both locations. Plenty of parking behind the building, easy in and easy out, makes Yoshi’s great take out.

It’s basically Asian fast food — and the quality of the food is pretty good for that standard. It’s priced right as well. The food is ready, well, fast, since it is fast food. The inside, however, is the area that needs improvement. You can tell there’s been some wear and tear to the building and the booths.

3 – 5 teriyaki chicken over steamed rice $ 2.77. The bowl was amazing. Plenty of chicken with the right amount of sauce. And the sauce had good flavor. The rice was good too which is rare. The egg roll and 3 piece gyoza were $ 1.50 each and both done nicely. The sauce that came to dip was gross tho. But I usually just eat them without sauce. Also got a 4 piece CA roll for $ 2.30. Although good not as good sushi as Ichi Bowl. I’ll likely be back at least for the chicken. Service was good and quick.

Pretty darn good teriyaki bowls. and at a cheap price !! Miso soup was 99 cents and pretty good with added soy sauce. I will be back to try other items …
2 $ happy hour chicken bowls 3 – 5 pm! Cant beat that !!!

It’s fine.
I miss the Yoshi’s of old, though. They used to make the sushi rolls as you ordered them. The Yoshi Roll was the best! They still make them, but they are never available (and they are called Chicken rolls now). I asked why and they only make 2 orders worth in the morning and they go fast. That to me says MAKE MORE ROLLS.