I have always liked going to Benihana even had my son's Baptism reception at a different location...I do have to say though that I was very disappointed this time around...We made reservations for our birthday around 830 pm and the wait was short to be seated which was nice...Prior to being seated we had a drink at the bar for a birthday toast...Ryan was our waiter and he was great, very friendly made us laugh and even helped take our group pics...My twin and I were excited that we were spending our birthday together after living in 2 different states it had been at least 8 years that we celebrated together...So this meant alot to us and couldn't wait to get dinner started...Our chef Jocelyn arrived and she didn't even introduce herself, how do i know her name i had to read it so i knew who she was...She then proceeded to give us our sauces and started the show...Now every once in awhile it can be normal to drop your utensils, but she did it more than I expected...Then came the heart shaped fried rice, shrimp that she missed 2 of them in her routine but hey it happens...The entire time she is cooking everyone at the table is either staring at other tables to see what's so exciting or we are looking at eachother in wonder why she isn't interacting with us...This is our birthday it's suppose to be exciting not us hear other people's reactions to thier chefs tricks etc for thier birthday celebration...It was so bad I had to make funny puns to make people laugh at our table...Normal chit chat is fine but when you're just cooking and we can't hear anything you say cause you aren't being vocal doesn't make the experience worth while...You know its bad when you have to look at other peoples table to get the Benihana experience...Well she finished cooking and left the table and we just looked around like okay that was horrible...We tried to make the best of it by saying it's our birthday and talked to her husband an my boyfriend to keep us in the birthday mood...We gave her the benefit that maybe she was new and our table was just blah...Nope as we were finishing our dinner she set up camp at the table next to us...We watched as she did the same thing and the table looked just as bored...One lady even had her elbow on the table and just was resting her chin on her hand...Then what happens ohhhh she does the onion volcano and we all look at eachother and realize she didn't even do that for us...Even if we missed it while we had to watch other tables that was pretty sad cause that's something you always wanna see them do...I can go on and on about our experience but overall it was just horrible...We spent all this time hyping ourselves up only to be disappointed...Our birthday only comes once a year and when you have a bad experience on the day of your birthday it just makes it worse...There was at least 4 other birthdays that night as we celebrated and those other tables had waaaaaay more fun than us...If we wanted to just sit down and watch someone cook for us we could have asked our husband/boyfriend lol...Benihana you didn't make us feel special in anyway what so ever on our birthday...The worst part is this experience made me wanna write a review cause it bothers me so much cause I haven't written a review in years...That is the end of my rant slash review on a place that has always been a great experience but they just let the wrong chef entertain us on our birthday...