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| - I was pretty surprised at how decent this place was! First off I highly recommend you pick up a restaurant.com gift certificate for this place. Well worth the value and you will get to try more items.
Volcano Grill is NOT a sitdown-and-get-served restaurant. You step up, place your order and then take a seat. They bring you your containers of food at the table, but they come in to-go bento style packaging. The food is Japanese Grill or Teppanyaki, with out a chef at your table....
The menu is very simple. Pick your meat, pick your rice or noodles, pick your side and pick your salad. They have a buffet bar with a large variety of sauces. My husband and I wanted to try a variety so we went with:
2 fountain beverages $1.69 each (they only have one size now)
three of the combo plates with these items in no particular combo ($9.75 each)
-black angus beef
-white tiger shrimp
-atlantic salmon
-lo mein
-brown rice
-fried rice
-steamed vegetables x2
-3 goyzas
-cucumber salad
-ginger salad x2
The shrimp were perfect just as they were cooked, no sauce needed. The beef and salmon were good, and cooked well, but they weren't as good as the shrimp. None of the proteins required any additional sauced, they had good flavor with the seasoning they were prepared with.
The lo mein and fried rice were very good, the brown rice was cooked perfectly. The goyzas were yummy when dipped into the Hot Magma sauce! Steamed veggies were just average. Of the salads, our favorite was the cucumber salad. Next time we will order more of that and 86 the ginger salad. The cukes were crisp and had decent flavor.
The restaurant.com gift certificate that was $25.00 required us to spend $35.00 and so we only came out of pocket about $12, which is better than if we would have come with no gift certificate AND we got more to try.
Overall the food was good. Not amazing, nothing to call home about, but good for a quick lunch or dinner. Volcano Grill will come in handy during lunch time shopping or as a place to pick up dinner on our way home. We will surely return to eat there again.
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