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| - Jiro (dreams of sushi) would not be pleased. I went to lunch with a coworker for teppanyaki. I should have known better - no one goes to a circus for a great meal.
Frozen mixed vegetable in the fried rice, old tasting shrimp, heavy handed sauces. The same meal, minus the show, served in a Tokyo Joe/Samurai Sam bowl would cost 6.95 and be plated far more delicately and with greater attention to flavor. Instead, I paid a little more than an Andrew Jackson (with tip) for a flavor fail in a dark and mostly empty room.
Food and ambiance aside, the show was spot on. We had a Mexican teppanyaki chef who really was on his game (So much so, that I awarded Ichi Ban a star!)
Yes, it was much of the same old tired act teppanyaki chefs have been passing along to us for years (twirling spatulas, spinning eggs, onion volcanos, shrimp in the hat) but the passion this guy had for the show was undeniable. If only the ingredients and room matched his joie de vivre, I might have left Tolleson with a huge smile!
Ichi Ban = Shichi Ban. Two stars.
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