Shogun Sushi — Restaurant in Palmdale

Love this place. Hard to get in sometimes as it is very small and a very, very small parking lot (maybe 8 spaces) but plenty of street parking. Also difficult to find if you don’t already know where it is. Kind of off the beaten path. Recommend putting it in the nav and letting it tell you where to go. I’m not a sushi person, but their cooked food is superb. Recommend the Golden Shrimp. Most amazing taste I’ve ever experienced for seafood. I can eat those things all day, every day. Cannot even try to explain the flavor, maybe the best I can do is a very mild teriyaki with a smokey flavor. Intense flavor to say the least. The rest of my family are sushi types and they rave about that, too.

Update: it looks like they have permanently closed. So sad :( I will now have to find another chef to make me golden shrimp but fear that it was a unique dish and will never have my pallet served that wonderful taste. Thanks Masa for the great food!

Update 2: it looks as though it has reopened. I have not returned so I can’t say if the menu is the same, and whether or not my wonderfully lovely Golden Shrimp are still there. I will have to stop by and see if it still holds...

I never would have seen or found this place but a coworker recommended it so we brought a group of 10 people. The food takes a little bit of a time and comes out one plate at a time...because they have one sushi chef back there doing it all! The service was good and the food was well worth the short wait. The fish tasted amazingly fresh, presentation was beautiful. I got a combo with ginger salad, miso soup, spicy tuna roll and seaweed salad. The ginger salad had a light dressing that was white and I loved it. The seaweed salad and miso were good...but the spicy tuna was amazing. My friend got the sushi special which was similar except instead of the seaweed salad it had five pieces of fresh sushi. Everyone at the table loved their meal. A friend let us try a piece of a roll that had salmon and scallops (I think it was a chef's special) and it practically melted in your mouth. I am definitely going here each trip to Palmdale. I think dinner was around $65 for the two specials and...

This place was recommended to us a couple of times, so we stopped in on a weeknight without reservations. We were able to be seated immediately. The atmosphere in the restaurant is phenomenal, it feels like you've stepped out of the desert of the AV into a authentic sushi bar in LA or even Japan. The staff were all very friendly and informative with any questions we had. The sushi was generous portions sizes and deliciously prepared. The sushi dinner allowed us to sample a variety of different fish, and we ordered some mackerel sushi on the side. The tuna and yellowfin weren't for me, but the albacore was probably the best single bite of sushi I've ever had. Biggest knock would be that the prices absolutely reflect the quality of product and service. Definitely not somewhere I would recommend for a quick bite or a regular occurrence (unless of course you're wealthier than I 😂) but on special occasions, Shogun is truly an excellent experience right here in our...