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| - I went here with a group of girls and sat at the hibachi area. Even if we had reservations made, it didn't help because we all still had to wait 1/2 hour for our spot. It was a Friday night and we got there at 8:30 and didn't get seated until around 9 or so. I guess this is the typical wait especially on a busy night like this. However, when we got seated, we got service quick. Our server Kristyn was very attentive and seemed like she has been there for awhile so she knew what she was doing.
I split the Nigori (cold) sake and for the price for $10, it's not bad. For dinner, some of the girls ordered the hibachi combos chicken and steak, surf and turf, and I just got sushi. Looking over their menu, they do offer quite a variety of items: sushi, appetizers, soups, noodles, katsu, etc. Their hibachi dinners come with soup and salad, lo mein noodles, rice (white or fried) so it's a good deal with the dinner. The portions were very large so everyone had a doggie bag. For sushi, I ordered their eel, sweet shrimp, and green dragon roll. The green dragon had shrimp tempura, avocado and cucumber. It was good however I felt it was already made before my friends' dinners were served, so it was cold. The sweet shrimp was a bit disappointing because it looked like the shrimp sat out for awhile. The eel however was good.
Here were the cons: The steak request was not promised from the chef. Medium rare is not medium well. That is one of my pet peeves when you're asked for how you like your steak then comes out not looking what you had asked. You might as well not ask if you're going to make it the way you want. Like any typical hibachi place, the chef does his tricks and also shoot sake in your mouth but if you say no, it's no. I think it's plain rude to blatantly shoot sake in a girls mouth when she has a drink in her hand.
Overall, I think it was just A-OK for the foods we ordered. Service was excellent so kudos to the servers. This is a chain so I didn't expect very much but I guess I had high hopes because all the other locations Fairlawn and Orange I have been to were exceptional.
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