The hibachi restaurant design is likely either hit or miss and in Vegas we are certainly not limited on the hibachi department. Enter Musashi, the small four table restaurant that most probably don't know exists except for the foodies who reviewed it to begin with. It is a no nonsense kind of restaurant, the kind that wouldn't seat me when I was 5 minutes early even though it was empty.
But of course the real question: what sets this place apart from the rest? Two things:
1) There are some unique menu items that you won't find at other hibachi locations. For example, quail eggs wrapped in bacon that explode in your mouth. Pretty darn good. In addition they have some kobe beef options that some hibachi restaurants might not have, although the upper scale ones probably still will.
2) Sauce heaven. If you go to a hibachi restaurant you usually can expect 2-3 sauces to go with your food. And they can range from decent to amazing. Well here you get 7 or 8 that they prepare at varying stages during the performance. It can seem overwhelming but there's a great variety in flavors that are worth trying. Of course I had finished my food by sauce 5 not realizing there would be more.
Overall the food quality was pretty good but not mind blowing. Of course the quality of food at a hibachi place probably has a cap and this was up there but I've had better. The ginger salad wasn't my favorite version and the soup decent enough. It's kind of a restaurant of gimmicks. One of the sauces they give isnt even a sauce it's just tiny pieces of fat from the steaks that were cut off at the beginning and turned into a little treat at the end of the meal. Tasty and cute but silly.
My rating is comparative to other hibachi restaurants and the fact is that Ive had better food at the benihana in the Westgate. That might be because I had a special waiter there who would give me 100 dollars of free food but yolo. Musashi is great and is worth going to definitely but not the best there ever was in teppanyaki.