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| - Never judge a book by it's cover comes in to play with the new Hibachi location!
My first impressions of this place when I noticed it was that it looked kind of... inauthentic? Suburban? Chain-y? I'm not quite sure, but the outside certainly doesn't do it justice. Once inside I found an elegantly designed restaurant with stainless steel, leather, and fancy wall treatments. Definitely not what I was expecting!
There are 6-7 teppanyaki tables here, with room for 8(ish) guests each. I did notice some bar seating, but not a lot - and really why would you come to a teppanyaki restaurant if you didn't want the teppanyaki!
The menu has 13 options, and each come with green salad, miso soup and steamed rice, which can be upgraded to two other soup choices (hot & sour and wonton) and vegetable or chicken fried rice.
We both upgraded to vegetables fried rice and wonton soup, and I had the filet (because that's what you should ALWAYS get at teppanyaki places) while my fiance had the steak/chicken combo. Spoiler alert, mine was better. We also shared the chicken karage appetizer.
While the appetizer was super mediocre and I wouldn't order it again (think skinny dry chicken strips), the rest of the food was pretty good! The soup and salad were on par, the fried rice decent (but not fabulous) and the veggies were good (except for the mushrooms, because I hate mushrooms...), and my steak was UNREAL!!!
I think the main reason I like filet from teppanyaki so much is that I can ensure that it's going to be as rare as I want it to be (SO RARE), and so it's melt in your mouth delicious.
As for the show, it was on par with others I have seen, and maybe even a bit better. They turned off the lights at our station and had a little fire show at the end - another table across from us had our chef, and I noticed that they had a bit of a different show, so good to know there is variety.
Overall I thought the service was great (especially the cook), the food was delicious, and the atmosphere was spot on. I hope that people look past the exterior and give this place a try, because I really like having delicious steak walking distance from my house. Really. Like it.
And thanks to be given a handful of 20% off coupons on the way out, you know I'll be back!
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