Sushi not soo good, alaskan king crab sushi too salty, missing ingredients in the Maki. Felt like a cheap sushi place.

I ate here late on a Tuesday night. Fast attentive service and excellent fresh fish equals five stars. Samba knows the difference between sushi and sashimi. That's nice. I started with the seaweed salad - just a tiny bit too salty - and ordered the Deluxe Sashimi. The yellowfin tuna was incredible. The white tuna (not super white tuna) was mouth melty. Mmmm. I was comped a spicy tuna sashimi dish (tasty, a bit too spicy) and a fried ice cream dessert. That surprised me but this was a five star meal without the rockstar treatment. Highly recommend. read more

This place is an enigma. Here's why: Samba's is a restaurant by day, wannabe club by night, so this really needs two reviews. The food itself is actually good. While I've never ordered take-out there, I hear they for whatever reason cannot get it right. Dining experience is... "eh." Staff tends to hurry you. Don't ever go here Thursday-Saturday night unless your into hanging out in loud, over-crowded makeshift club atmospheres with juiced-up Jersey Shore-esque townies and outrageously overpriced drinks. The place thinks of itself as a legit Boston club scene, apparent in the bouncer's attitudes and overall belittling of patrons. Fights are common here, and they lose their liquor license once a year due to serving to minors. It's a shame that their DJ has been there as long as he has because he's really great and could do much better for himself. Samba's is a joke, stay away if you have any self respect for yourself. read more

I had a dinner last night at Samba Steak House and just wanted to share my experience . The food was awesome, I ordered sushi plate and was very happy with my choice. It was delicious and fresh. The people who served were fast and friendly, I would highly recommend this place especially if you are sushi lover! read more

The chefs were very entertaining! The food was delicious and after you're done eating you can even go to the bar/lounge area! It's a great environment. I can't wait to go back!! read more

Samba Steak & Sushi - One of the best hibachi restaurants I've been to!! The food was to yummy and the chefs were very entertaining!! - Sushi Bars Near Me - Framingham, Massachusetts

We stopped in on a Monday night at 10pm (granted the Patriots game was on) hoping to get some late night sushi on the way home from Boston. We were the only table sitting to eat - with about 8 people at the bar plus staff. Within minutes of being in the restaurant, we had decided we couldn't take the amount of noise being put on by intoxicated people at the bar. We ordered our food to go. On top of the game noise (expected) and the loud patrons- they started playing loud music- we couldn't even hear each other sitting a foot away. We couldn't get out of there fast enough. Got home and the sushi was the worst I've had in the area. Threw it straight in the trash. $70 and a headache later- I wouldn't recommend. I won't be back. read more

Some of the worst sushi I've ever had (twice). I made the mistake of giving them a second chance and it was worse. Seriously, how can you make vegetable rolls taste "fishy"? About me: I eat sushi 1-2 times per week. read more

Food has gone downhill here :-( Also owner has not been following COVID rules set by the city and just did his own thing....they clearly don't care about their customers and there is NO social distancing in the restaurant. Friends went this weekend and had people seated right next to them and had to ask to be moved.....Stay far away!!! read more

For hibachi Samba is great! Chefs put in a great show and the food is very good. I recommend asking for yum yum sauce (seafood sauce). The sushi is very good for a large restaurant. Not as good as a small sushi only place, but my wife and I get sushi from here. Bar at night is a lot of fun too! read more

Excellent place for sushi and hibachi! Good quality food, so naturally expect to pay about 20% more than other hibachi places. Including $10.00 per drink 30% more than other nearby Chinese/Japanese places, read more

We absolutely love the food from Samba, but unfortunately this evening we had a bad experience with delivery. We placed our order more than 2 hours ahead of time and were given a specific delivery time. The delivery came about 30 minutes past the delivery. When I called to complain, the person who answered explained that the order had been misentered and had to be redone. When I asked if there could be some discount, they put the manager on the line. He explained that our order was treated as a "future order" and that they routinely deliver 15 minutes after the scheduled time. Plus he said other orders come in and then they bump the future orders ... so I guess they are unable to maintain a schedule. I reminded him that the order would be arriving 30 minutes late at that point and asked if they could give some discount. He then offered to "take the order back" -- that is, refund our money but not deliver the prepared food. That seemed pretty ridiculous and inappropriate given that we were now really hungry, and it would be a late hour to start making dinner. So I recommend dining in or doing take out because their delivery policy is utterly ridiculous. read more

Our servers were Archer and Helen.  There was someone in our group with a disability, and they went above and beyond too accommodate us, something that can be difficult in this time of social distancing.  AND the food was delicious.  A wonderful experience all around, cannot recommend more strongly. read more

Poor hibachi experience. Way below average food and the staff was rude. Manager doesn't really do any better and should learn basics of being polite to customers. read more

Food disgusting and expensive Drinks are ok Staff horrible Manager horrible DJ he's ok Dancing it's ok it's good on Fridays Music style Hip Hop and R&B Karaoke I hate it, it's horrible if you like to listen to bad singers read more

One of my favorite places! Love them! I went there to take out some foods and the manager at the front desk recognized me and was being friendly. I love their all foods but especially the Pad Thai. the sauce is not something you tried before. Very good! read more

This is by far my favorite restaurants in the area. I have been there many times and it's always a good time. Whether you want to go out for a good meal or have fun with your friends they have it all. I really like the hibachi and my husband always enjoys eating sushi. The staff is always quick to serve and we always feel very welcome. We have also been at the bar area a few times and had a lot of fun with the karaoke. I recommend this restaurant to all my friends and will continue to go there as often as I can. read more

Made reservations for 6:15 on a Sunday night. It was nice out so we asked to sit outside and were seated right away. There was one waitress serving outside ordered drinks after 15minutes. Sat there and waited it was now 6:45 an we didn't have drinks or order taken. Many people started to get up an go sit inside. She finally takes our order tells us they're super busy ok. It starts raining so we went inside still no food. Our food finally arrived around 7:20. It was just okay nothing special about it. read more

I go there for sushi and I am a fan. The bento boxes for lunch are also a great deal. The service in the afternoons is a bit lax but in the evening it's much better. read more

Great Hibachi, great food overall. Usually come on monday and fridays for drinks & food. Prompt service, food, drinks, and overall experience was excellent. read more

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Very happening place with a good vibe. Much larger inside than the outside appearance. The Hibachi service is fun, but the food cooked in that style is average. Good lively place. read more

Tried to get into Samba tonight (Day before thanksgiving) and wasn't let in because the bouncer didn't think my ID was real. He said, "it doesn't feel right" referencing my out of state ID. I'm 24. WTF. Management figure it out and get an ID scanner or something if the bouncers can't do their job. read more

Samba has good sushi, and their hibachi table is fun. The cooks are entertaining, and the hibachi itself is very tasty. It's good for families or friends, but maybe not for dates if you're looking for something more private (more than one group may be seated at a hibachi table). Some of the decor is a little strange, but overall it's a good place. read more

This was one of the worst restaurant experiences I ever had. Our reservation for 8 was for 7:00 and we didn't get seated until 7:40 since two people from our party were late. When we walked downstairs, the women's bathroom was closed, and only one stall in the men's was open, a urinal was overflowing, and there was sewage on the floor. After almost throwing up after leaving the bathroom, we were sat at our hibachi table. We ordered our drinks. After 40 minutes, our drinks finally came and the first drink delivered (Mai Tai) was dropped directly into my lap. My "compensation" was a spring roll. We saw two waiters laughing about the incident in the kitchen and pointing. Coincidentally, three of the other cocktails delivered were completely wrong. An hour and 15 minutes after getting sat, our Hibachi chef finally came. Not only did he get half of our orders wrong, but we got no saki for our group. Seems like a terribly mismanaged, poor excuse of a restaurant. If you enjoy waiting 2 hours and terrible service, I highly recommend this restaurant. read more

I really like Samba. I have been there quite a few times and the food has been very good each time. It starts out slow and you do wait a little bit but once you get rolling it is quick. The show is good and I think they could really get the food to come up together better. They make the rice first, then they make your meat, chicken or seafood and then your veggies last. I was so hungry by the time the rice is done I eat the rice before the meat is cooked. Timing of all the foods could be better but it is not going to keep me from going. Freshness is key. The show is pretty good. Not a sushi fan but my friend say it is excellent. read more

Samba steak house and sushi - well, lets just start with the name. There are wayyy too many things going on in their name than there are in this restaurant! Finding good sushi in Framingham seems to be more challenging than getting a 3 legged dog to pogo stick. As many of us know, looks dont always show what a place actually has - dumpy looking places in strip malls can have the best, while the upscale made-over sexy hot spots might have the most pathetic. Unfortunately, Samba scored the latter of the two, and while I wouldnt say it was horrible, I would certainly say not worth it. We got ridiculous amounts of sushi of all types and rolls. I was so excited to try my nigiri, and for the different types we got there should have been a lottttttt more color and flavor on that plate. Minus one. I moved on to my crazy intense-o rolls *super pumped at this point*, and it was just an unnaturally confusing cluster of a mess with poor cuts of fish attempted to be shielded by the other lackluster flavors of the roll. Even the ginger didn't help...never a good sign. Our drinks seemed to take FOREVER to get to us, and each one of them seemed weaker than the last - even our scorpion bowl sucked! (I mean really, how do you mess that up?!?!-you take a bunch of bottles and flip them upside down!!!) Watch out for karaoke night. It seemed to be 18 and over too as we got carded like twice just sitting at our table, which was a real swell topper to my already disappointing night. Sorry, Samba, I had high hopes for you, but I doubt we'll be meeting anytime soon. read more

I wanted to write this review as an alert for people who are considering Samba as a karaoke destination. I'll start off by saying that the karaoke part was really fun: Jamie is a great dj, has a huge song list, and is very fair about trying to get lots of people up to sing. The food is tasty as well. My gripe is with decisions recently made by the management. It concerns water. It's obvious that the management does not like the karaoke, which is odd because it brings in tons of business! Even so, there is a $25/table minimum. Ok, that's a bit odd, but understandable. However, they will not even give you A GLASS OF WATER unless you buy a drink. In addition, my friends and I racked up a $60 dollar bill, were brought the check without asking for it (I actually told the waiter we may get more stuff but he brought the check anyway), paid it, and then were denied water when we asked for it!!! After paying them $60! I asked to speak with the manager but he/she never arrived. Oh yeah, and there we only two waiters for the entire karaoke section, which at some points was about 60 people! They were very uncoordinated and asked us the same questions as each other. I hope this helps to give a head's up before people head out to Samba. BYOW (bring your own water!). Update from 9/1/09: Apparently the management has imposed a new policy that only "good singers" can sing more than once. What kind of bull-honky is that? read more

Truly a bad experience from start to finish. Took my boyfriend and my parents there for his birthday dinner on Christmas Eve (his actual birthday). Had a Hibachi table reservation for 7:30. We arrived quite early and asked if we could be seated early by any chance - the answer was no, they were very busy and had back to back reservations. This was fine - we sat at the bar for drinks and asked to be alerted if possible to sit earlier. We ordered drinks from the fairly surly and busy bartenders, also ordered some appetizers. Shumai were cold. Chicken/pine nut lettuce wraps were decent. Seafood pancakes were pretty good. A glass was shattered on the bar in front of me, no apology made or anything despite my trying to help pick up the shattered pieces. Bar was loud. At 7:15 I went back to the maitre'd to see how they were doing on reservations - were then told we would not be seated at 7:30, more likely 8 PM or after (Despite the reservation for 7:30). I asked if there was any way they could do anything - that it was my partner's birthday and that my parents were very tired. The answer again was no. So at 7:30 I asked if we could be seated elsewhere, not at a Hibachi table (which had been the whole point of going to Samba). They seated us in the non-HIbachi area. Our waitress was very surly and unfriendly. She took our order. My parents both ordered Chinese stir-fry dishes (they liked their meals). I ordered a sushi sampler (standard) and seaweed salad (yummy). My partner ordered a Godzilla roll. About 10 minutes later my food and my folks' meals came out. My partner's did not. We were told it would be right out. My partner said to go ahead and eat as my parent's dishes were hot. Ten minutes later, and still no Godzilla roll. Then the power went out for about 3-4 minutes. No member of the staff said or did anything about this. When it came back on I went to find our waitress to ask about the Godzilla roll, and was told "it takes longer." Why they did not factor that into our orders and the timing of our meals I do not know. His roll finally came out about 10 minutes later, after my parents had both finished their meals. With no apology or no acknowledgment that this was ridiculous and ZERO accommodation made. As he was finishing up his roll (which fortunately he really liked) and I was still nibbling at my sushi a large party of about 12 people came in. The wait staff started moving existing tables around to accommodate this party, including moving people who were MID-MEAL. Without asking, they then started clearing our table. Did not ask about dessert, did not make any acknowledgment of the terrible experience we had from start to finish, and seemed put out that we asked to box up the remaining sushi. They were clearly very busy, but this was an extraordinarily badly mismanaged restaurant experience, with surly staff, on a holiday night and we felt as if we were a major imposition rather than guests they were happy to have. And it was pricey - total bar and food bill was $225, for really a disappointing experience and ruined birthday dinner/x-mas eve dinner. read more

We discovered Samba about a year and a half ago and we LOVE IT. We even held a 70th birthday party for my mother-in-law there for about 20 people, and the party was a resounding success. Now that we know they DELIVER through GrubHub we're about to become broke, so I need to write this review before they cut off our Internet and repo our computer. But we'll be well fed! We're gluten free (celiac disease) and no one -- NO ONE -- in Framingham delivers from a gluten free menu. Today's our 15th anniversary and we couldn't get a babysitter, so this was an AWESOME DISCOVERY my husband found. Eating naruto and beef curry is an outstanding way to celebrate (we just finished -- yum!), and we recommend Samba to *everyone*, but especially to homebound gluten-free folks! ;) read more

I think this is the first time i've been disappointed at a japanese hibachi joint. My sister comes to this place on a regular basis apparently for the drinks, which I found to be rather bad. I had a gin and tonic that pretty much was very poorly made. The more fruity drinks seemed okay compareed to mine. It took awhile for us to be seated, and it seemed like most of the wait staff was really confused about what was going on throughout the restaurant. The noise level was rather high, mainly because every table aside from ours had at least six small children there, most of whom weren't being watched and were running around all over the place making a ruckus. After we had been seated and given drinks, we ended up having to wait awhile before they were ready to take our orders. And then on top of that, the waitress messed up our orders multiple times. We finally thought we had managed to help her get it all down correctly, until the cook finally came out to start the hibachi, and he hadn't brought out the entire order. I had ordered the Hibachi Salmon (which admittedly was delicious and cooked perfectly), along with Sushi and Shrimp Fried Rice instead of regular fried rice. I had to wave down the waitress to ask about my Fried Rice, which she said would be out soon. I got a seperate plate of non-hibachi rice just as i was finishing my main meal. On top of all this poor service, for some reason a street magician was going from table to table doing tricks. While It was all meant for good fun, all it did was annoy me, and I wasn't sure why they had allowed him to come in to do his act. At the very end, my siblings ordered some fried ice cream, which turned out was just a scoop of vanilla with some frosted flakes sprinkled on top. In the end, the food quality is great, but the service can be pretty crappy. read more

I came here with a large group of friends a few months ago for a birthday dinner. I ordered the Samba Special noodles, which by the way, is not very special at all. It was very bland and simple, like anything you can whip up at home in ten minutes. I also sampled a few of my friends' dishes, which were all equally unsatisfying. One of my friends never got her meal, but of course, we let it go because the last thing we needed was another tasteless dish to add onto our large bill. read more

If I could give this place a -3 I would. We made a reservation for 7 for a Birthday. We called on the day of to confirm and they had it down for 8 and said too bad we already have other parties at 7. We arrived and our table wasn't ready. No problem, we went to the bar for drinks. The service at the bar was terrible and the drinks weren't any better. Not even a drink list available. Also, severely overpriced. After an hour of our table not being even close to ready and another large group also not being seated still for their 8 o'clock reservation we left. Horrible customer service all around. read more

First time here this past week and will definitely be back! My boyfriend took me for my birthday and we loved it. We sat in the Hibachi area and the waitress we had was Annie and she was friendly and prompt with drinks & salads. Joy was our chef and he was not only entertaining but friendly and fast. The food was DELICIOUS and despite sitting with a group of strangers since there were just 2 of us, we had a great time! He had a few beers which were reasonably priced and I had 2 martinis that were fruity and delicious, a little pricey - but not more than other places I have had similar drinks in the area ($10-$14 each). All in all we were not disappointed and felt that our bill reflected great food, service and a fun experience! read more

Had an awesome dinner experience tonight! Came here with my three teenage sons and a friend and they had a great time. Chef Brian was totally entertaining and kept us laughing. Everything from the salad, shrimp appetizer and dinner was delicious. Since it was Friday and we didn't have reservations it was a 20 minute wait. Well worth it. The place was packed (for good reason)! read more

This usually was my favorite spot to have dinner with family and friends, Last night I decided to come here to spend New Year 2019 it's the worst place to be .. The restaurant wasn't busy around 6:30pm. I came in with my family and friends and the waitress was so rude she didn't pay any attention to the table or coming by after she drop off the foods we keep calling her and she just ignore us and keep on walking.. I talk to the guy at the front desk ask if he the manager seen like he don't even know what I'm talking about seriously Hired someone that's they can understand when the customer complain not just stand there and don't say anything.. there so many restaurants out there I take my money to somewhere else read more

Weak food, and pretty mediocre service. I have had many terrible experiences there! Please don't give these people your money.

Went for lunch while I was in town. Sis and I both had the sushi sample lunch, yummy. Enough food well priced and very fresh fish. Did charge for a refill on coke, really? But good service overall. Cool vibe. Were present during a bday celebration where the servers whack gongs and sing- so if you r into that sort of thing or like embarrassing family members let them know it's your bday! read more

Terrible. It's Thanksgiving Eve and there is a "cap" but people inside say it's empty. Open the downstairs you idiots. I liked this place before, but I am never going back. You guys messed up. read more

Came in with high expectation, but turn out to be another inauthentic Japanese steak/sushi bar cater to people interest in fusion. I don't have much bad thing to say about it, because nothing really standout to me, not the foods, not the services. Everything is just so so, and very forgetable. Price is a bit too high for its portion. If you look for authentic Japanese foods, keep on moving, nothing to see here. If you look for a hangout spot. This appear to be the favor of office workers. read more

Terrible! Dined here with a large group on April 5th. We had the reservation for months but still had to wait 30 minutes past our reservation time for the tables to be ready. When the maître d told us there would be a few minutes to wait I simply asked "why" and he had no logical response. Dinner was undercooked (hibachi) . And the cocktail waitress was really slow. It took her almost 25 minutes to tell me she didn't have the particular glass of wine I wanted. another 15 to get the next, which I had to stop a manager to get me. I would never go back. read more

This was one of the worst experiences - we have eaten here for many special occasions but will never come back. We aired a long time- the hibachi was prepared haphazardly with the meat down and cold before the rest. The fish was inedible - they forgot part of the order. This is my first negative Yelp review. read more