Restaurant Japonais Samurai in Victoriaville

Always so pleasant

Best restaurant in Victoriaville. Excellent service!

Smiling and helpful staff. Good value for money. On the other hand, big downsides on the service. Much too long between drink, meal and dessert when you take the warming table.

Lots of fun always

Memorable experience!!!

Delicious and authentic, 100% Japanese atmosphere The price is a bit high but its worth it because the service is also impeccable.

Absolutely delicious and excellent quality meat!!!

Quality/quantity price ratio still low. $170 for 4 people, no alcohol. Good food but nothing exceptional.

An absolutely extraordinary place to discover with friends

Excellent dinner both for taste and conviviality. We laughed with the chef and had a great time!!

I live in Lévis, more than an hour from Victoriaville, and Jardin du Samouraï has been my favorite restaurant for over 20 years! I almost always get the teriyaki chicken with shrimp, but Ive also tried the steak and scallops. Everything is top quality and really delicious! We start with the soup, which is exquisitely simple; Then comes the salad, drizzled with an absolutely succulent sauce (so much so that I keep the rest of my bowl to sprinkle over my rice!). Then it s the chicken, shrimp, rice and vegetables, all cooked on a plate and seasoned expertly! I cant get enough of eating this tasty Japanese cuisine! Those who want a spectacle at the large tables are satisfied, while private tables or lounges await customers more desirous of calm. The atmosphere is friendly, with the always smiling chef-owner who welcomes us as if we were family. I was there again last night (05-24-2024), and I had a blast!

I like to eat fresh and healthy, Samurai meets all my criteria, I love this restaurant. And what about the welcome from Youki, his daughter and all the others. We feel like family Bravo!!!

Great experience! I strongly recommend

Small portions of delicious food, family restaurant with very friendly service.

Where to start. We arrive and are offered the cocktail menu. My partner is pregnant so we tell the waitress that it wont be possible for her. I order the special samurai menu and my partner the teriyaki chicken. First we get the onion soup. A watery soup that tastes nothing with a few tiny pieces of fried onions and mushrooms. We then receive the salad which happens to be 2 pieces of iceberg lettuce with French vinaigrette and a tomato, very disappointing still no taste. Then comes the main dishes, the vegetables are bland, the rice also needs to be added a good amount of salt and pepper to find flavor. My partner is eating her chicken and there is a piece of raw chicken on her plate. She stops eating it and we wait for the waitress to come back to change the chicken. The waitress came back 30 minutes later to ask us if everything was OK. We explain to him that the chicken is raw and show him the piece in question. She asks us why we didnt just leave the raw pieces aside and not finish the rest of the chicken which was okay. We kept telling him that my partner is pregnant and that we preferred not to take any chances. She offers to cook the same chicken again but as its been a long time since we finished eating we tell her that it wont be necessary and that well have our desserts. She says shell bring us a drink to make up for it. Until then, everything is respectful and apart from the chicken, which we only mentioned is raw, we ignore the other more than ordinary dishes. This is where it gets complicated, when she brings us the drink the chef-owner arrives at the same time, very aggressive and speaks to us loudly while pointing his fingers at us. He has raw chicken on a plate and tells us that this piece is not chicken breast because there is tightness and blood and that he only serves chicken breast. He bluntly tells us that there is a problem at this table while still pointing his finger at us. I ask him are you telling us that we brought raw chicken from home in our pockets to add to our plate? He confirms once again by nodding his head that yes there is a problem with us. He then tells my partner that the fact that the chicken is pink is due to its lipstick, my partner did not have lipstick. He is always very aggressive while we have been calm and courteous from the start. My partner is crying and I say thats enough, lets leave the dessert and the drink and we pay and leave. We get up and go to pay at the counter and the chef-owner comes back to see us again! He yells at us again and then he tells us that it was the ketchup sauce that colored the chicken. We told him that there wasnt even ketchup at our table. He tells us that it was one of the sauces on the plate that colored the chicken. My partner tried the sauces at the start of the meal and didnt like them because they tasted excessively like rice vinegar. We tell him that we didnt take any sauce which is brown for one and orange/red for the second, while the raw chicken is pink. He told us that it was the sauce during the cooking of the chicken that colored it, so after telling us that we had brought chicken that did not come from the restaurant, now it was HIS cooking with its sauce that was problematic.. Well done champion. He told us that he has been a chef for 35 years and that he had never seen this kind of chicken. I told him that my parents are ITHQ graduates in cooking and chef and that I knew how to recognize raw chicken. A great evening with an outrageous price of $100 for everything tasteless and with risk of intoxication.

My new favorite restaurant! Everything was good; the food, the ambiance and the service. Perfect for a birthday or a dinner with friends. Going to this restaurant gave me the impression of having taken a trip to Japan. Almost everything is cooked in front of you on a plate. Small special mention of the shrimp which was succulent and the hakutsuru sake which was delicious. Thank you very much for this excellent evening.

Thank you to the chef in full control of his art who knows how to liven up an evening and contribute to the pleasure of his guests.

I have never been to such a good restaurant, I had a wonderful birthday, thank you to them

The Samurai, youre going there for a drunken evening with your gang. Its a culinary and humorous show. For an extra experience, take a large bottle of sake and offer it to Yuki the great chef. The food is high quality, everything is exquisite, shrimp, filet mignon, AAA Chateaubriand steak. Have fun!

Very nice culinary experience, certainly the portions are small, but the main course is well balanced. You should not forget that the restaurant is Japanese style. I had dinner before a show and the service was fair.

Wonderful experience I love my second time And I go back every time I go to Victoriaville

Excellent !!!

It s a great place where the owner-chef is just incredible! You have to go there to understand the experience. I recommend it! Parking: Rear parking

THANKS! The Samurai Gardens! Culinary experience, atmosphere, service... we spent a wonderful evening with friends with you... when you have a sister from Toronto who takes part in this evening the 5 stars... are upgraded to 10 you are an experience to share!! The Trois-Rivières gang, see you again soon

What a beautiful evening, thank you Yuki and thank you to the waitresses, warm atmosphere and very good food! as promised!

Whether on tables with several people with the chef who prepares the meal in front of you or in the small cubicles alone, its really a restaurant that I would recommend to everyone, nothing to say, it was excellent and a pleasant time to every time

Very nice evening....

Wooow. Warm welcome, fast, courteous and efficient service. And what about the food Wooowww

Simply incredible restaurant. The food is perfect and the chef puts on quite a show.

Excellent restaurant

Expensive meals and drinks No option for vegetarians, you have to pay the full price of a meat meal to eat a bowl of iceberg salad and zucchini...

Unique and warm!! Very nice evening!!

Thank you Yuki it was a lovely evening! Go meet Yuki you will understand

Force people to tip 20% even if the food and service arent worth it and slap you in the face.

My favorite restaurant in Victo! The atmosphere is perfect, on a date or with family

Good food. Interesting dining experience. Could be so much more interesting with a renewal of staff and interactions.

Much too expensive for the quantity of food received.

Yoki and his team are incredible. I warn you, you are not ready for this experience

This evening my partner and I went to eat at the Japanese Restaurant Jardin Samurai Victoriaville, the owner being a Japanese himself was super welcoming and friendly, we had sake with him while chatting about Japanese cultures, it was a very nice outing.. .I recommend this restaurant to everyone good service good Japanese food with decor a Japanese atmosphere he gave us chopsticks as a gift

Very good service, and good show

Having recently arrived in Victoriaville, we had the pleasure of having a meal in this great Japanese restaurant. The food is of high quality and the staff are extremely friendly. We recommend and we will come back to eat there with pleasure

Good food, good service, decent show

A unique experience. A must-have. Excellent service. The food is of high quality. The prices are very good. Experience to live.

I loved it, there was atmosphere, but we were in a private room, it was excellent 10/10

Excellent service perfect for a family evening!

Best restaurant experience of my life.

Its very good seafood etc & superb shows

Very bad experience, $135 (with glasses of water only) for 3 people and we ended up at Tim Horton because the table dhôte portions were so small. Iceberg lettuce, sinewy steak, miniature sauces with a micro portion of dry rice, a scoop of microscopic caramel ice cream for dessert...finally. It was obvious that we were entitled to the minimum for tables dhôte even though they were very expensive. It really wasnt authentic Japanese flavors, disappointment all round... Very slow service to top it all off. I dont often complain on Google, especially about a local business, but this one doesnt do Victoriaville justice at all..

VERY GOOD, BUT YOU TAKE THE TABLE DHÔTE WHICH IS EXPENSIVE TO BE HUNGRY WHEN LEAVING THEY SHOULD INCREASE THEIR PORTION, BECAUSE ITS NOT NORMAL TO PAY $40 FOR A HOTEL TABLE AND BE HUNGRY WHEN LEAVING.

Worst experience, to start with the onion soup... A real stuffing, a beef broth with ONE slice of mushrooms and a tiny pinch of fried onion in the bottom. The salad: iceberg lettuce with French vinaigrette. The shrimp starter: two shrimps each, I thought it was a joke I was even waiting for the second course which didnt happen... The main meal: small steak the size of my fist. And to finish dessert, a tiny scoop of ice cream the size of a $2. Not to mention that the waiter helped himself to my friends bottles of sake all evening (who got a nice bill of +$300 each) without even asking permission . I paid in cash, no invoice, I got $18 in change and the cashier never gave it back to me. I cant believe it, a real theft, a real joke...

Food more than normal But above all Yuki who is much quicker to inflate his bills than to offer a service. Needless to say, going there means burning your money

This is the best restaurant - bring home your hunger.

Always a pleasure to go see youki beautiful atmosphere fresh food 5 courses $50 its rare today.

Always a treat! The owner is really friendly!

Extraordinary place! Yuki is really kind and caring.

An extraordinary experience. The filet mignon, shrimp and vegetables are succulent. A memorable evening on December 30, 2021 with Yuki and the Victoriaville clientele. Good year !!!

Amazing experience! The staff is very friendly and funny, the atmosphere is perfect for a romantic evening as well as with family or friends! I recommend 100%

Yuki good cook, Yuki funny An attraction in the region

Excellent service and the food is delicious. We will return. Brilliant concept!

Top notch restaurant! When you come in the staff welcomes you with a smile, on the right, Japanese tables in cozy little places to spend a quiet moment, and on the left the tables where the chef prepares the meal in front of you by putting on a show. The chef is great and sets the mood well while he prepares your food. The food is very good quality and tastes amazing. The ambiance of the restaurant is great and the staff are lovely and very helpful. The price is more than fair for the service provided. I recommend 1000%

Expensive... but AAA beef is excellent. For leftovers, I can make better ones at home.

Le Samouraï devrait être LE 1er CHOIX de tous pour toutes les occasions. Youki est simplement le meilleur hôte et chef en ville. Les ingrédients sont savoureux, préparés à la perfection! TOUT est délicieux sur le menu. La passion garde ce restaurant ouvert. Il ne faut pas que ce joyau de notre ville disparaisse! Quest ce que tu attends? Reserve maintenant!

Location and atmosphere we were in the small Japanese style lounge 5/5 Very good food 5/5 Quantity 0/5 Sorry but when you were hungry when you left, it was the first time that happened to me.

Always fun to go there! Chef Yuki is a number in himself! Definitely worth the trip for it and the freshness of the food!

Well done, welcoming staff and the food is delicious. Choose the heated tables because you will also have a show from the chef with his humor.

Excellent restaurant can be a little expensive but #1 service and delicious great experience Kid-friendliness: Nice interactions with the children

An unparalleled gastronomic experience with your meal prepared at your table by the chef himself!!!

Missing my 93 year old grandfather s birthday forever.. Very bad experience. non-existent culinary show! The stupid employees, eat ordinary and not expensive but charge a lot.

Incredibly good!! Such a warm welcome, best restaurant in Victoriaville :)

Vegetarian options: Possibilité

Very bad service a cook for several tables much too long the service we had to pay for double consumption very poorly managed for a birthday dinner it was a terrible evening very expensive for what we were able to have on our dinner plates plus the 200 $ per person

Reserved at 7am, arrived at 9:30am and he starts the main courses on another table! Its laughing at people and the worst, theyre chasing us for a better tip!! Simply unacceptable.

The food is sick!! I had a very complicated day but coming to the restaurant brings happiness, good service. Thank you

Ultra mega disappointed! Im going there for the experience of having the kitchen in front of us done, I wanted to take photos of the big fire like all the other tables had. Finally so that he prepared everything for me on the neighbors table (with whom it was their friend from what I perceived), with his back to us all evening. I have zero had the same experience as the others, go somewhere where we can all have the same experience!! And they dare to force me to tip! I leave it only for the young girl who was superb, I hope that cooking it will not take her.

Very good, the cook is party and likes to have a little worm of saqué, I recommend.

We wanted to go on a date for a table for 2, the chef arrived and put us with people celebrating their holidays, it s disappointing

it was one of my favorite restaurants, until I had the worst experience there that I had never had in a restaurant... we should definitely not tell him that we are not satisfied with the cooking ... and yet all the other times it was perfect ... but this evening, phew...

As imagine... classic very good

Still as good even more, The owner listens to excellent service...

Family restaurant with very friendly owner and excellent service!

Great meal, great family time. We ate very well and a big thank you to the chef for his communicative good humor.

Several visits, always delicious! And the service is remarkable!

Excellent service, excellent meal, excellent humor this Yuki. I love it

Great establishment, excellent food and incredible atmosphere 5 stars

Wow! A cultural and culinary experience! Traveling to Japan close to home and with humor! Thank you very much Mr. Yuki!

Listening to Yo Yo Ma this morning, I am reminded of the wonderful moments we had at this wonderful restaurant. Thank you so much Yuki for making us feel welcome, making us laugh and enjoying a true culinary symphony. You are an amazing chef and it was a real honor to meet you. Merci encore Yuki, merci

Great restaurant. The food is excellent and the chef Yuki is friendly, fun and has an unusual sense of humor. It s an experience to live at least once.

It was delicious! Thanks to the cook and his starter sake , see you next time!

How I enjoyed this place... For a first time it was very successful... The boss was very friendly.. thank you for my first successful experience

Great restaurant we make you feel comfortable entering. I highly recommend it!!

The meal was excellent and the chef was most entertaining I will definitely come back

Very good, very friendly owner :)

Disappointment, and...total disappointment I went to this restaurant following a recommendation, and I admit that I regret it very much. The decor is beautiful, and the owner and his daughter welcomed us warmly. But for the food... The soup is just a broth, with a slice of mushroom. the salad is tiny, and the portion of rice borders on the ridiculous. the shrimp starter is two tiny shrimp that dont even make a full mouthful. I was supposed to have a chateaubriand steak, but the fillet used was cut into tiny tasteless cubes, served with simple sautéed vegetables, which lacked flavor too. Finally, the very small scoop of vanilla ice cream was downright insulting. It cost me $70 for this meal, for one person and without alcohol. Do yourself a favor, and go somewhere else where youll get a lot more bang for your buck, and with better taste.

Very good, but too noisy for my taste. Maybe it was me who wasnt in the right mood. Otherwise, the staff is attentive, we were served very well.

Expensive for the little food...we pay a lot for the atmosphere :(

Super super

Very nice experience. Bloody dragon is a must, very entertaining chef, the food is good.

Thank you for the beautiful evening, we ate very well. The chef entertained us very well. It s a great experience to have. Were going back there soon. Signed the great tannant.

The best restaurant in Victo! Extremely friendly owner.

Where to start? Dont go there. We had a reservation for 7 p.m. We waited around the door for about ten minutes before someone came to greet us. Then, the owner tells us that we will not be able to have room for a hotplate because of the late hour. Despite our disappointment, we still stay and take a seat at a small table. A few minutes later, a small group sat down at a cooking table. The soup arrived rather quickly, nothing impressive. Next came the salad: a few leaves of iceberg lettuce, a little vinaigrette and a slice of tomato. After long minutes of waiting, the main course arrived. The quantities were minimal. The waitress arrived with the sauce just as our dishes were finished. No one came to fill our water glasses during dinner. Dessert... a real joke. Its just one small scoop of ice cream in a small bowl. We got up since no one was coming. The VERY rude owner asks us to leave him 15% tip. He was arrogant and made comments to us since he was not happy with the amount we left. Also, he didnt show us an invoice since we paid in cash...

Nice clean good fast service

Great service, the meat is excellent, the people are dedicated and kind, I love this restaurant!

Best place to eat!! Excellent atmosphere! Amazing menu! Service #1! A must!!!

Very nice experience owner Yuki really for its customers and the excellent meal I recommend it

Splendid madness with chef Yuki! I can not wait to return Thanks again for the lovely evening

One of my restaurants in my top 5, the staff is great and the meals are excellent

It was very good and fun! I can say its more delicious, fun and excellent service than I was in Montreal :)

I go to this restaurant once in a while when I can afford to go down to Victoriaville. The food is very good and the staff friendly. The environment is also very calm. The most pleasant thing is to see the food being prepared in front of you. This is a gem of a restaurant.

The food was good despite the long wait time. Portions are smaller than normal. Were coming to the end and the chef forces us to tip much higher than suggested. If your restaurant and your staff cost you more because of the show you give, increase the prices or suggest a bigger tip on the menu. To be told that you are too cheap to give 20% tip is to lack good manners. Im never going back there again.

Always a great experience when I go.

Super good and excellent service!!!!

Super good eating excellent...there was no sushi only disappointment

Tasty food. Decent menu. Japanese authenticity uncertain.

The show on the hotplate is great and the Japanese chef made us laugh

Avoid this restaurant. Otherwise watch your bill, avoid going there for a second service because you could come across the chef-owner in a very advanced state of drunkenness, which makes him aggressive, unpleasant and vulgar. The cooking was absolutely not as requested.

Worst experience ever. The very intoxicated chef is rude and even aggressive. The service is mediocre. Chinese waitress just doesnt understand you. Reservation at 7 p.m. received the main course at 9:30 p.m. doctored invoice with tips included.

The wait to receive the service is very very long

So good and the chef who puts on quite a show while cooking in front of us. We loved it.

Very good for a group dinner.

The food is exquisite! Worth the price. Excellent place to celebrate a special day

Excellent in every way. If you want a special experience, I highly recommend it.

Very good

Very nice evening and excellent food and above all excellent service from Yuki that makes all the difference thank you. This was my first time and it wont be the last.

Very good but portions really too small and poorly divided. The waiter didnt appreciate my remark and was cheeky with me. It ruined my evening. The tip is automatically included on our invoices, not sure if it is legal.

Its a great experience, but its expensive for what you eat. To try for once.

Funny this boss

Cest très bon on a bien mangé . Les portions sont pas très bien portionner cest désolant et les prix ont augmentés et si on redemande du riz il le change et jai pas eu mon thé à la fin de mon repas . Cest pas très achalandé. Le cuisinier samuse en nous faisant la cuisine tout un show qui en vaut la peine sur une plaque chauffante.

Good atmosphere, good place to go in a group,

Friendly staff, great show

Very good meal, impeccable service

Wow, very good meal, the cook cooks the food in front of us, wow! Beautiful atmosphere! Thank you Yuki and his team!

Good but expensive

Disorientated at first. Pleasantly surprised when the dish arrived.

I loved it!

Reserved at 7 a.m....received the soup at 9 a.m....the waitress didnt speak French and didnt understand English well...no way to get a drink...not even water.. . incorrect cooking... dry rice... tasteless... there were 13 of us and the 13 will not return... errors on the invoices... being forced to pay more tips while the service was mediocre. . very disappointed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We left at 11:15 a.m.... angry and disappointed to have had to drive 1 hour 15 minutes for this :( (and we are regulars at this type of restaurant)

It was really good

Great place, very nice staff and tasty food

Wow wow wow exceptional owner

Wowww wowww wowww we will return there for sure. Very nice welcome and atmosphere and its very good

Never go to this fake Japanese restaurant... terrible service from Chinese waitresses who dont speak a word of French or even English, probably because the miserable and dishonest little Japanese hires at a starving salary... food not edible and cold and above all, especially check your bill because the little Japanese who looks so adorable is in fact very rude..we all hate it!!

The food was really good and the service nothing to complain about, I would go back without any hesitation! :) And the experience of serving on the hot plate, a real show, was great!

Very good restaurant if we could bring our wine it would be good for the rest its great

Very good food, excellent atmosphere (you have to participate) lots of fun

Too small portion for the price of the bill

It s super good and the saki wow the cool chef

Interesting for an evening with a group

Its warm and friendly

Excellent experience, excellent food. Some would say a little expensive, but I would rather say that I find that for the excellent service received, the succulent food, etc., the price is low. The chef loves what he does and it shows. I have no bad comments to say.

Good but little choice and VERY expensive for the quantity/quality.

Everything was more than excellent! I strongly suggest Teppanyaki for even better quality meat. Great service and very friendly staff. Very clean and modern place. We will definitely come back on our next visit to Victoriaville!

Super resto

Excellent restaurant!!!

Magnificent lively evening at the warming table, excellent food!

The best steak! Always impeccable service! Very friendly staff and always smiling!

What a good restaurant