We went to this Teppan Steakhouse because it had some of the best reviews on Yelp. We also chose Teppan because my 81 year old mother in law had never been to one. We wanted to show her the Japanese flair cooking of singing twirling spatulas and flying eggs and of course the onion volcano.
Unfortunately I think we got the DISHWASHER as our CHEF at our table. All the other tables were filled with oooohs and ahhhhs of the chef's tricks, but our lame "cook" did NONE of the traditional fun. He basically cooked the food in normal fashion like I would at home. Why pay the extra money for this?
He didn't make enough rice to even fill the bowls, he sliced and cooked the steaks one at a time and his "special flavoring" was a TABLESPOON of GARLIC per small steak. Luckily I saw this before he got to mine and asked him to hold the garlic. Who wants to hide the flavor of a good filet mignon with a huge dollop of garlic?
His onion volcano was a pitiful 2 layers of onion rings. and he left the vegetables for last and cooked them so little time, they were firm and practically RAW on the plate. Cold raw cabbage in the mix? blech!
I gave 3 stars, because despite the pitiful skills, the soup, rice and steak did have good flavor. the vegetables were fresh and would have been good if properly cooked. If you get a good chef, i'm sure this would be an excellent restaurant. we were just unlucky.
Hokkaido manager, I hope you read this and make sure to properly train the chefs before you put them on the floor. NOT a fun dinner by any means.