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| - I was torn whether to give this place 2 or 3 stars, but thinking back on the food others at my table ate, I decided on 3.
My boyfriends family and I came here to celebrate his birthday on a Sunday night. He's recently become obsessed with stir fry and hibachi places so it was a must that we visit this place. We made a reservation and were seated right away when everyone from our party arrived.
First of all, our waitress was terrible. She brought things out promptly and got all of our orders right, but she was not nice to us at all. Literally not one smile or kind remark. She also got very testy whenever someone asked her to repeat herself. Not cool. The hibachi cook on the other hand was great. He did all of his tricks and although messing up a few he was always in a good mood. He even teased my boyfriends niece a little bit which I think she thought was so funny.
As for the food. The miso soup you get first is very good. Maybe a little salty, but I will forever crave that soup whenever I'm feeling sick because it was so brothy and yummy. Then you get a salad which I usually like. All of the vegetables were fresh, but the dressing was so watery. It was really weird. It tasted good, but the lettuce became kind of wilted because of the dressing.
Now for the hibachi. I thought it was so weird that you have to upgrade to get fried rice. What?! I've never had to do that before at a hibachi restaurant, it usually comes for free. So that was weird. The rice was good, though I've had better. I like it when there is still a little snap to the rice from being fried on the super hot cooktop. I ordered chicken and scallops. The scallops were cooked well, however mine had not been cleaned and the tough part had not been removed so that was disappointing. The chicken was pretty tough, and the sauce/seasoning was very bland. The vegetables were pretty tasty, but again the sauce could use some work. Now, I would've given this place a 2 star review if it had not been for the steak that others at my table received. My boyfriend ordered steak and chicken and let me try some of his steak and it was so so so yummy! If you come here for hibachi, skip the chicken and go straight for the steak. Holy cow it was so good. Perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned. YUM.
So overall, this place lucked out that their steak was so good. Minus the steak, I would've been forced to leave a measly 2 stars.
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