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| - This is the 2nd time I visited this restaurant. It's 9:20p.m. and we call in for teppanyaki. They are nice to serve us if we can arrive by 9:30p.m. We make it and as we sit down, all the customers are starting to leave. I can see the waitress preparing all the ingredients and then comes the chef. As there is a couple having their anniversary, the chef is nice to fry rice with a heart shape. The cutlery play is very good and the chef does enlighten the atmosphere. The couple enjoys it. The NY Strip Loin and salmon are both delicious. The texture of the Mignon is better than the NY Strip Loin.
After the meal, we are the only customers left in the restaurant. Though late at night, there is no sense of pushing us to order, finish the meal or to foot our bill. The waitress comes frequent enough to add more tea to us. The feel is so good. When we are ready, we ask for the bill. Everyone smile and greet us as we leave. We all have a great time.
5/3/2011
I have passed by this location for quite many times but never notice this restaurant until we bought the Groupon. Once entered, it has a different atmosphere than most of the traditional Japanese or Korean restaurant. The feel is more modern and spacious. There are lot of separation by glass. On the south side is the Teppanyaki, the north side is for Hot Pot and dinner. We choose to go for the Teppanyaki. There are not that many people there. The waitress tries to find a table with no people for us. It actually surprises me as most of the Teppanyaki restaurant will group all the people in the round table in order for one chef to serve us all. Although finally we have to share a table with another family, I am totally fine with it. The ceiling is decorated with all the red plastics to block the cooking smell to spread to the other part of the restaurant. The ventilation is pretty good.
We order a Lobster & Fillet Mignon & Scallop and an 8 oz Yakiniku (Thin slice Black Angus striploin with teriyaki sauce). Since there are 2 kids in our table, the chef makes a lot of fun and demonstration of the cooking skill with his fork and knife. It is very entertaining. He has trick to surprise us with a retractable ketchup sauce. He throws an egg to a kid but found out to be hollow. What comes interesting is rice is the first item to be served. We have a lobster tail probably 6 oz, a few scallops and 4 inches in diameter of Fillet Mignon. For the price of $45, I found it a bit expensive. The texture of the Fillet Mignon is very tender. On the contrary, the Yakiniku is not very good and is a bit tough. We then order our dessert. The night only has ice cream. On the menu, ice cream can only be Vanilla or Mango. There is no Green tea ice cream in a Japanese restaurant, very surprise.
The waitress service is very good. I also look at their Teppanyaki lunch menu and am much more reasonable but I am not sure about the portion. Maybe some one can try it and let us know.
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