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| - I've been a customer here since around 1995 or so. As others have said, this is a generally nice restaurant that has nevertheless seen better days. It's overpriced if you only consider the food - which is filling, but nothing special - but you're also paying for the ambiance and the hibachi grill performance. It's a solid choice for a group gathering (normal tables seat 8, private rooms seat more) but not really a place to go alone or on a regular basis.
If you are in a small group, be aware that they seat you with other parties to fill a table, presumably to keep the grilling and shows efficient. My most recent table had my party of seven plus one lone diner, which was honestly a bad setup. It's better when the groups are balanced, so that there can be two separate conversations going on. In our case, we just had the one random guy sitting silently at our table with his arms crossed, making the meal palpably awkward as we talked around him.
My most recent experience was also unusually bad food-wise. The salad was soggy and insubstantial, and the hibachi food was extremely salty. (Two hours later, I still have that salty "gagged on sea water" feeling in my mouth.) I didn't enjoy it. Plus, the portions were noticeably smaller than they used to be, despite the fact that the price was just as high. But keep in mind that that experience was not typical... Other than the portion size issue, I think we just had a bad chef.
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