Samara Grill — Restaurant in Seaside Heights

The food was okay for a Mediterranean place in the middle of all of the American bar/grills in the Seaside Heights area. It was as good as you could expect. The upsides are that it's a different cuisine than the area, affordability, and the food has just the right amount of seasoning. The downsides are that the restaurant is hot inside with barely any AC running, the hot sauce tastes like your basic store bought Red Devil's (American), the white sauce tastes like ranch, the salad is basic (literally just lettuce and tomatoes), and the chicken comes overly cooked and in bits rather than in decent slices. The falafel was fairly tasty, but the outside was a bit too hard for our taste (but that could just be a preference of ours). If you're bored of American or boardwalk food, this is a...

I had the Samara Mix Grill Platter. The portion sizes of meats and rice was great and will fill you up plus more.

Flavor of the whole dish fell flat, I found it to be bland to my tongue palette. The rice was lacking flavor. Spice marinations of meats - chicken, beef, lamb (I think lamb was present in the dish as well) - was inadequate. The white sauce did not help with adding any flavor to the overall dish. I added hot sauce which caused it to be good enough to finish.

The food is not bad by any means, it simply does not hold up to the standards of what I have eaten before at various Mediterranean and Arab restaurants.

If you are into simple flavors and foods devoid of spice, then this is the...

Guys. Samara is amazing. We've been coming to the shore for Years and looking for some decent food. Almost everything we had was fantastic.

There's better places in Philly, NYC, etc. But for the Jersey Shore?? This is such a tasty, refreshing, option compared to the grease-y pizza, bland burgers, and sad Mexican food you find on the boardwalk.

Only thing we ordered and didn't like were the fries. Just kinda bland.

The people who work here are great and friendly. Parking is a little tricky, but no worse than anywhere else here.

Inside is a little basic but I get the feeling most people take out.

Def get one of the platters/bowls. The Samara Mixed Grill is...