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| - I had never been here before and was really looking forward to eating here with my wife and daughter. We were part of a 16 top table of friends seated at one of the Teppanyaki tables. Now, those who know me say I'm a patient guy, but this place really tried my patience. They did not disperse enough menus for the whole table and my wife, her friend and I sat her for FIFTEEN FRIGGIN' MINUTES waiting just for a menu. Finally I personally got up and walked to the host station and grabbed the menus myself. BTW we still haven't placed a drink order yet. That happened about ten minutes later as I looked at my watch and noted it was just shy of a 1/2 hour before we even placed our drink order. With that said, my Saki Bomber wasn't delivered for another 20 minutes. In short it was just shy of an hour to get drinks and order! Are you friggin' kidding me!?!!?!! My wife ordered iced tea and they brought no sugar - another 10 minutes watching the ice melt. If not part of a large party I most definitely would have got up and walked.
On that note, one of the gals saw my displeasure of the near hour long drink order and delivery method and said to me, "Yea, the service really sucks here, you're kinda at their mercy as to what they want to do...but I love the Tepp Chef." Eeeek, boy, wrong kinda love I thought.
Anyhow, the prices are a bit up there but you get a lot for it. They all include a cup of Miso soup, a small salad, a shrimp appetizer, rice, hibachi vegetables and your main course cooked in front of you. Now to be fair, the abysmal non-existent service from the beginning did pick up almost to pace. I was even asked for a new beer before the other was finished = which shocked me. The food courses were rolled out timely.
Miso soup was good but not great. It was very hot and flavorful but the tofu cubes were smaller then an eraser head. The salad had if I recall correctly, a ginger vinaigrette and was small but decent with a single tear drop tomato in it. You also got a shrimp appetizer which was cooked by the Tepp Chef on the flat top. The shrimp was very good. What I liked about these courses is that my wife doesn't like miso soup OR shrimp so I got both of hers - shoot...swish.
I ordered the scallops for my dinner with double hibachi veg and no rice. I was pleased that there was an abundance of scallops and they were seasoned and cooked perfectly. My wife ordered the chicken and it was absolutely terrible- dry and tasteless.
Now the real value at this place and my only guess as to why ANYONE would venture to dine here are the Tepp Chefs. They are extremely entertaining. I got a real kick out of the Japanese chef speaking Slang Spanglish and the comedic value of this seemingly flying over most peoples head. This guy was really funny cool man. He did the whole onion volcano bit which is always entertaining. He made me slap the backs of my hands together like a friggin' circus seal and beg for a shrimp bite which he tossed up at me in the air to catch with my mouth, and when I did he squirted, from one of those squeezy type ketchup or mustard plastic bottles, sake into my mouth as a reward. That sake squirting gag was a gas man as he squirted it into the mouth of a woman at the table but kept doing it for like 7 seconds as it all dripped out of her mouth and onto her chest and shirt - funny stuff.
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