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| - Pretty tasty and juicy meats if you like to grill your own meat and are attentive to it. A timer might be handy to have but I mostly did it by eye. For the quality of meats I think the prices are mostly fair. Out of several different meats I tried (Beef rib, Bistro beef, Beef toro, Pork Belly, Miso Chicken and Filet Mignon) all were good except maybe the Filet Mignon which was a bit chewy, which is too bad since it tends to be one of my favorite cuts of beef. It was also maybe the hardest one to cook properly since it's thicker and shaped like a cube. It requires more time to cook like a few minutes depending on how you like it done. The chicken is also another one that's a bit hard to cook through because of the thickness of pieces, the center may be raw even if the outside looks okay. Might be useful to ask for a knife so you can cut a piece and check inside. Most of the other cuts being thin usually require 45 sec to grill so those are easy to cook well. The staff will tell you the suggested cooking time. Surprisingly the meat rarely sticks to the grill, if anything if it starts sticking it probably means you need to flip it over. However, I'd say cooking pork belly or anything with a lot of fat can be a bit dicey. The fat seems to really attract large flames to shoot out of the grill and cause splatter. I'm pretty sure an eager flame licked my hand at one point for a split second. Your clothes will not smell after eating here. I was actually surprised at this. I don't recall even seeing any smoke coming from the grill but maybe I was too focused on the grilling to notice.
There are a choice of three dipping sauces, ponzu, spicy and sweet. The meat doesn't really get much of the sauce flavor when you dip it. In any case, the meat doesn't need to be dipped in sauce and tastes pretty good on its own. The sauces were more useful for flavoring my bowl of white rice. Don't ask me about vegetables, like why would I order those? But yes you can order those here too. There are also cooked dishes if you decide that you're too cool to cook your own food. There are happy hour prices between 12pm and 5pm. There are a fair number of tables. I'd say for each grill you should only have a max of 4 ppl, any more and it feels overly crowded. This is definitely a fun outing for a group that you would do once a while although I don't expect to see myself coming here very often. Mainly because I don't like paying to cook my own food.
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