If you are looking for the twenty something see be seen crowd, this is where they mingle. My group considers this place a birthday celebratory location. Special occasion= a fire show...indeed! They have sushi and the quintessential hibachi grill chefs performing wild antics as they prepare your dinner. These guys know what they're doing and they are some of the best around. Shrimp slinging into my mouth...GOAL!
The specialty cocktails are ginormous with all the fixings, pineapple, cherries, and Hawaiian umbrellas galore. Nakama Panda anyone? I get drunk just looking at them, yes they are too sweet and I feel like I have been transported to the magical world of the smurfs as I sip the comical bright blue drink!
Picture a night out with your friends, eight to ten of you surrounding a steel table with a wooden ledge to perch at as you are served a Nakama salad with ginger dressing and greens. The dressings are always so tart. Next a small bowl of Nakama onion soup with mushrooms. I like the Hibachi shrimp fried rice with the sauces to dip my "shkrimps." The food is common for this type of place so nothing exceptional. Entrees start at around $20. At least one person in the party has to get hibachi or no fireworks! As the meal is cooking blasts of fire warm your face as you munch and drink up the starters. At some point food will be thrown at your face!
Finally the Pièce de résistance, happy birthday singers with your Birthday sunday complete with sprinklers and fan fare. (Note that you have to purchase this in advance or you just get a boring scoop of ice cream) enter giant gong..."GONG!!" You're done! Out to the southside street you go to get LOUD and continue the party!