Little Sama Ojai

We travel for food and Little Sama Ojai is on our list! We have not found another restaurant with a better cauliflower dish (Popcorn Cauliflower) and the fried chicken sandwich is wonderful! Twice we were in Ojai for four days and each time we were at Sama Sama almost every day! Just go! You will not be disappointed! BTW: It is in the same building as a brewery so there are many varieties of beer available, but if you are not a beer fan (like me) they serve wine also.

Sama is separate from the brewery but they use the same space. You order at the counter and wait for the server to bring your food. Cuisine is Viet-Thai-Japanese-American fusion. We had the tonkatsu sando with green papaya salad. The salad dressing was the most delicious sauce I'd had on green papaya. I wanted to take it home. We ended up dipping our homemade shrimp chips in it. I wanted to try the desserts but we got too full of tasty beer. ?

I had high hope, but food was terrible here…. Chicken karaage was overcooked to the point chicken was completely dry and hard to even chew. Brussel sprouts were totally over-cooked and tasted like eating ash. Very disappointing.Topa Topa had good beer, which offsets some of the disappointment

BBQ chicken sandwich was good as was the curry noodle soup

This place is incredible. I'm not used to fusion, so several new tastes that were unlike the usual grub I have. Wonderful ambience, friendly quick service, cool that it shares an open space with a brewery and overall perfect experience. The only suggestion that I would give is to have more tables with chairs and/or stools with back supports-we had to take our latest meal home bc my mom has neck/shoulder pain. Other than that, very highly recommended!