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| - We returned for a family birthday dinner. Our server, Cat and the Chef, CJ, did a great job. Cat was efficient and friendly and CJ was entertaining and professional. The meat and vegetables looked very fresh and were cooked appropriately to requested order - everything was good and in solid portions.
We had a Hawaiian roll which was really tasty, with nice salmon and avocado and a nice crunchy tempura inside with spicy salmon. Our 10 year old loves sushi and sushi rolls and she enjoyed that one.
We had shrimp, chicken and steak on the hibachi along with vegetables, rice and noodles - a little of everything - and CJ did a great job juggling, joking, and cooking with the obligatory volcano, fake-out with the sauce bottle and all the other more or less expected parts of the cooking routine that went along with making good meals. Some of his goofy food jokes and puns were pretty good, and we've been to enough of these places that we thought we had heard all of them. He actually had some new ones.
We had seven meals for $175 including tip - we added a little onto the tip that was automatically added on, I assume, for our party size of seven (and that drives me crazy, too but I get it) - with non-alcoholic beverages and no dessert. Soup and salad go with the Hibachi combos as well as the usual dipping sauces, "yum-yum" sauce and a sweet sort of Ponzu. Although generally Asian restaurant salads are not really worth commenting on, I will say that the dinner salad was for whatever reason much better than the lunch salad I had in the previous review. The soup was tasty, although (and this would be my only extremely minor quibble of the night) I would have liked it to be hotter. (My wife thought it was fine.)
Overall, we enjoyed it very much. There are many options for teppenyaki style Japanese within 20 minutes of where we live, not far from Hibachi - another just down Rockside road, Broadview Heights, Brecksville, Beachwood and Macedonia all have one. For about $25 a person, we had about 10-11 meals worth of food and a great time which certainly competed well with any of those, and it's proximity means we will very likely be back.
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