Located at 2645 North Main Street in High Point, Shogun offers Japanese fare for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Lunch specials are available as is all-you-can-eat sushi. A semi-private room is available for large groups.
High Point is home to a surprising number of Japanese eateries, several of which begin with S (Shogun, Sake, Shinko Grill, etc.). Given this near-ubiquity, any one of them would have to be especially good or especially bad to stand out. Shogun is neither though it does offer decent food at reasonable prices.
Housed betwixt a T-Mobile and a Mario’s Pizza, Shogun is easy to miss from the outside. The inside does no more to command attention. It’s dated and dimly lit though clean and presentable, and sushi bar seating exists as an option if tables fill up.
Shogun’s menu rounds up the usual suspects: miso, gyoza, tempura, yakisoba, udon, hibachi dishes, and sushi (sashimi, nigiri, and a decent assortment of rolls). If you are in search of novelty fusion, you have come to the wrong place.
My wife and I opted for a char-grilled steak and a house udon (vegetables, shrimp, scallions, and chicken) respectively. The steak was marinated in a pineapple-ginger-soy combination that lent plenty of flavor, was cooked to order, and came with an appealing assortment of vegetables. The udon was comfortingly hot on a cold day though the broth was very mild and the dish was light on shrimp.
Pricing left no room for complaint: both dishes were $9.95 and provided a lot of food for the money. The proprietress was very nice though not particularly easy to understand.
Shogun isn’t somewhere one should go out of the way to visit, but for those in the area, it’s a worthy lunch option.
7.5/10
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