Service was excellent. It was a good time. And using my birthday certificate even cut the bill in half. The chef was fun and nice. The food was pretty good. And you get plenty! The wait time was a half hour but it ended up being even shorter. Overall, this is an excellent restaurant with a great location.
I am deducting one star for 3 small reasons:
1) In the past 6 months I have been to 4 other similar restaurants. The chef has performance at Benihana was the worst in comparison. This is probably due to the fact that we couldn't hear our chef over all the noise from the many other tables.
2) In comparison to other restaurants, the food is the same. It isn't anything special.
3) When we exited Benihana at about 9 pm, the Fashion Show Mall was closed. We had parked beneath and planned to shop after our meal. We are locals and even the mall near us is open past 9 so we figured the mall on the Strip would be too. For locals, it really isn't worth making a trip to that part of the Strip for dinner.
Unless you are comparing this to another Teppanyaki place, you will not be disappointed.