Tex Wasabi's Rock-n-Roll Sushi-BBQ
Name: Tex Wasabi's Rock-n-Roll Sushi-BBQ
Address: 515 4th Street, Santa Rosa, California 95401
Phone: 707-544-8399
Web site: www.texwasabis.com
Date & Time visited: Saturday, December 24, 2005, 6:40 PM
Guests: Jennifer and me
What we had: Vegas fries, Emily's roll, Tootsie roll (see menu at linked site).
The strangest concept restaurant I've ever visited, Tex Wasabi's was also highly entertaining, affordable, and open for dinner on Christmas Eve. Who knew that buffalo-hot sauce shoestring french fries went so well with tempura shrimp and crab rolls? It works and works well. The only negative was the noise level, which was rather uncomfortably high.
Service: Very good. I felt just a bit rushed towards the end of our meal--and we weren't there all that long--as if the manager might be urging the server to turn the table, but aside from that service was quite good. Drink refills met the crucial "before they were empty" standard and she came back to check on us twice.
Would we go back: Next time we're in Santa Rosa, sure.
Note: A few months after this review was posted, restaurateur and Tex Wasabi's owner Guy Fieri competed in and won season two of "The Next Food Network Star".
Address: 515 4th Street, Santa Rosa, California 95401
Phone: 707-544-8399
Web site: www.texwasabis.com
Date & Time visited: Saturday, December 24, 2005, 6:40 PM
Guests: Jennifer and me
What we had: Vegas fries, Emily's roll, Tootsie roll (see menu at linked site).
The strangest concept restaurant I've ever visited, Tex Wasabi's was also highly entertaining, affordable, and open for dinner on Christmas Eve. Who knew that buffalo-hot sauce shoestring french fries went so well with tempura shrimp and crab rolls? It works and works well. The only negative was the noise level, which was rather uncomfortably high.
Service: Very good. I felt just a bit rushed towards the end of our meal--and we weren't there all that long--as if the manager might be urging the server to turn the table, but aside from that service was quite good. Drink refills met the crucial "before they were empty" standard and she came back to check on us twice.
Would we go back: Next time we're in Santa Rosa, sure.
Note: A few months after this review was posted, restaurateur and Tex Wasabi's owner Guy Fieri competed in and won season two of "The Next Food Network Star".
Labels: Guy Fieri, Santa Rosa, Tex Wasabi
posted by Andrew at 12/27/2005 04:16:00 PM
5 Comments:
Prior to dining at Tex Wasabi's, I looked over the menu online, read Andrew's review, and ultimately joined friends from nearby Rohnert Park to dine at what they considered a fun and exciting restaurant with a twist.
Without a doubt, one of the worst dining experiences ever had. Bizarre food concoctions, and not even well executed, at that. The coconut prawns were good, but the two cups of bottled Thai Sweet Chili sauce (found in most Asian markets for $1.79) dumped on top of it made it more like Prawns drowning in the Jaccuzi. The "Jackass" roll was horrid - sushi rice and french fries is a big "red flag" - double starch - the pulled pork was lost, and the roll was washed out with a glopy sauce on top which reminded me of thousand island dressing without the relish. We didn't even finish it. The Emily roll was a bore, and the constant use of cheap, fake crab was a turn-off. We also tried fish and chips, huge chunks of cod with a thick, cloying batter - ugh - and the baked beans served with the pulled pork had so much brown sugar in them, we wondered if it caused a shortage of C&H dark brown sugar at the local Safeway. If cabbage is your thing, then you'll rock and roll at Tex's, 'cause it's about the only veggie on site.
Atmosphere? If you consider twenty free neon liquor signs hanging over the bar great decor, you'll be right at home. The bar patrons have a CCTV to watch diners in the other room sit and poke at their plates. Gee, that's entertaining!
If this is the signature restaurant of Mr. Fieri and his attempt to expand the culinary knowledge and taste of his patrons, may the empire he's started please end right here!
We are from out-of-town and wanted something unique and interesting. What a waste of our time and money! We would have been better off going to Applebee's.
They left us standing by the bar for five minutes while they "almost" had our table ready.
The waitress rattled off her memorized list of whatever, but couldn't think of a single suggestion for a signature dish or what was interesting or popular. When we needed more than three minutes to decide, she abandoned us for about 10 or 15 minutes.
We finally ordered, and it was darn near 45 minutes before our food came! And what unremarkable food it was. My husband got the batter-fried cod and had the same experience as the previous rater. It wasn't anything special and set up in his stomach like concrete.
I got two orders of sushi, forgot what, big deal, sushi.
Then, while I still had several pieces of sushi on one plate, the waitress cleared off my husband's dishes and tried to take mine too! When I protested, she took my one empty plate and made off with my chopsticks as well as the little plate of ponzi sauce I was still using!
As if that wasn't rude enough, a few minutes later some dude was going around clearing the packets of sweetener off the tables. He marched over, and without an excuse me, reached right over my plate and grabbed the sugar off our table. I half expected them to come for the table cloth next, and it was still half an hour until closing time.
So if you want terrible service and indifferent food that takes ages to come but you must eat within ten minutes, be my guest, but I'd suggest you don't bother.
We had coffee afterward at Aroma's and I was looking longingly at their wraps and sandwiches, wishing we had eaten there.
Absolutely below average food. Because we had seen Guy, our son wanted to try Tex Wasabi's.
For appetizers,the "koi fish" tacos were cold and blah, the Vegas Fries the boys liked but they had a strange stiff quality as if they were undercooked, the special spring roll of the day may have had lobster in it, but could taste mostly cabbage, but at least it was hot.
One son liked his Veggie Tempura and the other liked his ahi tuna steak, but thought it a bit boring. My husbands fish and chips was below mediocre, and my "Tokyo Cobb Salad" had stale, hard blue cheese chunks, brown avocado, and a big gob of dressing in the middle. with lots of lettuce plus some bacon and tomato. They only positive part were the three tempura shrimp--which were good, except one of them was only a partial shrimp.
the overall effect of the salad was "Tired and boring"
We were expecting lots better from a restaurant to which Guy is linked. We will never go back.
Exceedingly loud, with several screeching children nearby, but service was fine.
I ate at Tex Wasabi this past Friday night. I probably won't go back. I ate at the bar and had one of the Roll Combos with nigiri. It wasn't very good and I don't think the value is very good for what we paid for. To Top it off, the blonde waiter with the big chest hanging out of her shirt was rude when I asked something about my platter after it arrived.
I will spend my money elsewhere.
i'll save you the trouble of reading a review and simply sum up -- this place is fucking disgusting.
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