Over the weekend my three best girlfriends and I ventured out to Westgate for some b-day celebration! We went to dinner @ Kabuki.
Reservations are not taken on Friday and Saturday when I phoned I was assured the wait wouldn't be much longer the 5-10 minutes. My g-friends and I arrived a little after 8 p.m. on Saturday. I walked up to the hostess and put our name in. I think you can tell a lot by the restaurant by the people working the front of the house. These were two teenagers working part time who had far too much make-up on and were simply bothered by having to work. Not a very good first impression.
We walked outside and people watched thinking we only had a 10 minute wait @ the most. We asked to sit on the patio and when I looked there were 4 tables open. After 10 minutes we walked into the bar area. KIRIN on tap!! Things are looking better. The little couches outside were available so we sat out there. Just as we sat down our buzzer went off. We were walked to our table. Second to the last table on the patio.
Our waiter arrives. Tom is going to take care of us. I let Tom know that it's a b-day celebration and that we can get kinda rowdy. He's up for the challenge. We order drinks. Sake bombers and a vodka drink - everything good so far. I think Kabuki should be best known for their sushi. My dinner of chicken/steak teriyaki was good. It was just run of the mill. Rice was good. Everything tasted great. We had edamame and veggie tempura. Appreciated the large pieces of veggies. B-day girl said she had some of the best sushi she has had in a while. We also tried the steak/asparagus salad. That was delish. Spears of asparagus come wrapped in thinly sliced steak. Perfectly seasoned. The salad part of the appetizer was a little weighed down by so much dressing but it was good. Another g-friend had beef sukiyaki. Holy Sukiyaki this bad boy came out in a huge boiling pot. It was large. Tons of veggies, noodles on the bottom and the steak. Served with salad and rice she loved it. Too much for one person. Can and should be shared.
Next time I want to go and get one of the boats. So many of those were served the night that we were there. Looked good.
The atmosphere around the restaurant is good. It can get rowdy. There is a bar next to the restaurant with smoking allowed outside. The night that we were there we got to see two fights. First one started by the guys and then their women followed up. The women were later put in cuffs. It was exciting.