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Believe it or not, this place is actually worth it. However I don't think it's $$$$ as the page says, it's probably closer to $$ or $$$.
Teppan Cave is in the corner of a plaza, the first one on your right off Rutherford Road at Vellore Woods Drive. It's a small place, but since my parents and I arrived at ~8:30pm on a Tuesday, we managed to get a table and were the only ones there the entire time.
The menu is quite simple, you have the tasting menu options which provides an appetizer, main course, and ice cream at a fixed cost, and/or you also have items you can order separately. For our first visit, we had three tasting menus and added a beef tendon as well.
We ordered the seared scallops and cuttlefish, miso BBQ sauce chicken, and the angus beef rib eye. It comes with a house salad, okonomiyaki with tiger shrimps, rice, and miso soup. The house salad and rice were nothing special, but the miso soup was surprisingly rich. The okonomiyaki was decent, but considering it came with the menu I didn't really thought of it much. The seared scallops and cuttlefish was very good, along with the angus beef rib eye. The miso BBQ sauce chicken was good, although the sauce itself I couldn't really taste the miso feel.
After discussing with the teppan chef (who, by the way, is wonderful to talk to; you won't get the whole teppanyaki show but you get a casual conversation instead), he recommended us to try the beef tendon, which we did. I can safely say it was one of the best beef tendons I've eaten, very soft as well as tasty.
This place may be in Woodbridge, but I'd definitely return to try some other items, maybe in special occasions like Father's Day coming up. Service was wonderful; it's a family run restaurant so you know you're supporting local families. Definitely a hidden gem IMO.
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