Warrior's Grill is so delicious, and so well priced! I am a big fan of their selections for the dinner menu. I would enjoy eating here on a regular basis (you make your own flavors, so variety is not an issue). I think the best aspect of dinner here is, firstly, how fresh all the ingredients are (the meat is frozen/thin sliced, but that's actually a great way to keep it super fresh and ensure it gets cooked properly without drying out or burning), and secondly getting to season your food the way you want to, then getting to watch it be cooked right before your eyes! Plus, they offer lamb, my absolute favorite meat, and since it's a set price I can have a huge bowl of it. You can also avoid gluten/some carbs, and skip the noodles! This is very close to pretty much the only way to eat Paleo (aside from insanely overpriced high end restaurants), because you can fill up on meat and veggies until you're full, if you want to. There is also a rare kind of bread (sesame bread), that I haven't seen at any other type of restaurant, plenty of rice, and noodles, for carb lovers.
I will say, I did not find the hot and sour soup they offered at the start to the meal to my taste at all--but the cookies they brought over at the end of the meal were fantastic. I've never had such a good 'free dessert' provided at a casual restaurant before. They are soft and buttery, not the usual store-bought crunchy/dry kind, and almost seem home baked. Much better than bits of candy with the bill.
The only reasons I cannot give five stars (although it's close), is due to a few technical drawbacks. Firstly, there is an unspoken rule about tipping the cooks, because they don't do their work behind a wall (and then of course tipping at the end of the bill too). That's not a problem, unless you need to go up more than once or twice (at that point, the 'set price' will start increasing quite a bit, with the premium of tips added on)... which, unless you are very skilled at filling the child-sized ingredients bowls, is something you will end up having to do.
My biggest issue is with the size of the bowls provided for filling with raw ingredients (keeping in mind that everything shrinks down, a lot). It's very messy, and so unwieldy to stuff everything (plus your watery sauces) into such a small receptacle, and sometimes even to reach certain items which are crammed further back... that they actually provide dry tissues at the end so that people can wipe the raw meat juices off their hands, from the process. Not to mention how their short meat tongs often end up totally buried in said (raw) meat. I sanitize my hands a lot after touching them, even though I don't eat with my hands afterwards.
I dislike their lighting fixtures intensely, because the cheap dusty linens they use to cover up the light bulbs do not strike me as appropriate for an open-cook venue. And, while this is not really a big deal to me-- it bears keeping in mind that your food will always be influenced by whatever the person in front of you had cooked. I love all their seasonings, and the spicier the better, but it's a little like playing the lotto in that eventually you'll lose the toss up and have something a little off with your chosen flavors (I, for example, am sure eventually I'll get a plate of sweet food, although I would never use the sugar water personally). At least I can make my food to my desired spice level as I like it, though I apologize to those after me. They do clean the grill in between people, but not between each and every single person--more like when there's a small break in the line. It helps everything move through speedily, but the flavors still mingle to a small degree. read more