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| - If I could I'd give Blowfish 2.5 stars.
We ate here on Thursday, June 19th 2008. We sat at a teppan table. Amongst my wife and kid we had shrimp, chicken, NY Steak, and calamari. We paid a total of around $95 before tips for dinner plus 2 soft drinks a bottle of warm sake and a beer.
First the nice stuff. Blowfish is brand new and the owners went all out with the decoration. It's a nice looking place with 5 or 6 teppan tables, a long sushi bar and a good number of dining tables. There's also a very nice looking patio in the back. It looks like Blowfish was designed to appeal to and cater to the wealthy in the far north valley.
My wife's sake was very good for warm sake - definitely not the cheapest stuff. My Sapporo came out super cold, severed in a chilled glass. The wait staff was very friendly, attractive and professional.
The teppan chefs all seemed very professional and very skilled, but that's about where the good stuff ends. The rest wasn't bad - just not at all impressive.
We ordered 2 orders of tuna rolls. They were just a bit below average. The tuna wasn't particularly fresh. If Yasu's tuna rolls are a 10, these were a 4, maybe.
Like I said, the teppan chef was great. I'm just afraid he was given mediocre ingredients. The shrimp was just ok. I expected calamari steak when I ordered, but instead he cooked the suckers, etc that you get when you order a calamari appetizer at an Italian restaurant. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't awesome like a good calamari steak.
The NY steak was ok. Not great and not bad. The chicken breast looked pretty pathetic. It was probably the saddest looking chicken I've ever seen on a teppan grill. It wasn't gross or rotten or bad - it was just cheap. I paid $17 for my kid's chicken plate and they cooked him a $2 chicken breast.
In summary, Blowfish looks like a Japanese restaurant that someone threw a LOT of money at. They have Japanese teppan chefs and the sushi bar was at least staffed with a bunch of Japanese looking chefs (I didn't get to listen to them talk).
The problem is they've scrimped horribly on the quality of their food. If places like Yasu, and even Sakana can procure and prepare decent quality food, then Blowfish should be able to as well. Other than its location way far in the north valley there is nothing else to distinguish Blowfish as a good or interesting Japanese restaurant.
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