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| - Ginza is a delicious Madison treat. If you can stomach the price and want a fun dinner outing, there's few other places I could recommend as highly.
The first time I went to Ginza was several years ago, and back then I found it to be fairly mediocre. The service was OK, the presentation and show was mild, and the taste of the food was generally good. But I became a regular patron about a year ago, and in the last several months they have seriously stepped their game up. I've been to Benihana's and Ron of Japan as well, but these places now pale in comparison to the level of goodness you get at Ginza.
First off, you have your choice of the cozy sushi rooms or the habachi live-action tables. The sushi rooms are nice and peaceful, sequestered off so you and your shoeless companions can have a relaxing conversation while you gorge on tasty eats. Service is polite, well spoken, and fairly prompt (depending on the day). Secondly, you have the Habachi tables (my favorite), where you and another party are seated together to watch your food cooked in an exciting manner in front of you. The majority of the chefs, especially in recent times, will put forth a big fire, do some fancy knife tricks, and provide a little dinner humor along with it.
But the real present that you get is the food. They have scrumptious mushroom soup, mouth-watering fried rice, and main entrees that are so amazing they taste like candy. The Filet Mingon is supreme, the Lobster is succulent, and the shrimp is magnificent. Ok, I ran out of adjectives but you get the point. The vegetables are darn good too.
Don't listen to these other rants, and put up with any little issues because in the end it's completely worth it. I've been probably some 2 dozen times and will continue to go as long as they make it this good.
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