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| - First time here for their Winterlicious 2016 dinner. Katsura is not inside the Weston Prince hotel but next to it and is accessible through the hotel. Parking is free if you give the host your license plate number. Since the Winterlicious menu features teppanyaki, we sat where the grill was. Not overly comfortable seating and for a group of 7 people, it was slightly cramped but it's no big deal. The chef we got was friendly and personable. Our chef made a little fire mountain with some sliced up onions and he did cool tricks with the salt and pepper grinder. So you got a mini show with your dinner.
The only downer to the whole experience was the wait staff. Waiting service was mediocre for most of the dinner (other than the teppanyaki chef, he was awesome) but it went down hill real fast when it came to the bill. Our waitress was not rude but she never smiled and looked mildly annoyed that I needed to pay by credit card. She got the machine, asked me how much to input then just walked away and left me there. She was gone for quite a bit of time and my friend also needed to use the machine to pay for her bill. Came back after a long time, my friend paid and then another friend explained that the rest of the bill was in cash and she just took the money and left. No thank you, nothing. I hope the chef got my tip because our waitress definitely didn't deserve it. Felt like I was at a Congee Wong.
Appetizer: Kakitama chicken broth
Main course: selected black Angus sirloin and black tiger shrimps
Dessert: pear sorbet
The chicken broth was a bit of a disappointment. The picture I took off my broth was before I mixed it. If you give it a mix, it has swirls of egg white in it. It was bland and left much to be desired. I can't imagine the miso soup or salad being any better. Actually feels a bit like a rip off since a small soup or salad is usually complimentary at fancier a la carte Japanese restaurants. I guess I overestimated the appetizers.
Moving on to the main course, vegetables weren't bad. Chef was on point with the cooking of the sirloin. Asked for medium rare, and it was cooked exactly to my liking. Main course was pretty good. Sirloin was tender and juicy. Shrimps were alright. Vegetables, rice, and cooked bean sprouts came were part of the meal. The portions are small (expected) but I didn't leave hungry.
Pear sorbet was refreshing. Good amount of pear flavour and not overly sweet.
Suggestions for the business would be to have better lighting outside their restaurant. It was so dark and the door was kind of in a corner; some of my friends and I had trouble looking for the front door. Also when you're more of an upscale restaurant, food presentation is part of it all.
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