At Benihana, we cook your meal from scratch right at your table. First, the ingredients are laid out before you: fresh garden vegetables, succulent shrimp and lobster, and Benihana's legendary lean and tender steaks. The chef then takes suggestions as he cooks, and everyone gets their meal exactly as they like it - the way you'd eat at home. For more than 30 years, Benihana has been cooking the freshest ...
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In the heart of downtown amid upscale shopping and theaters, Benihana, a popular restaurant lives up to its excellent reputation. Patrons include businesspeople during lunch hour and happy hours and theatergoers, shoppers and people celebrating a special occasion at dinnertime. Known for exhibition Teppanyaki cooking, the chefs demonstrate their knife skills while cooking your meal table side. Along ...
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In Short Benihana started out as a tiny four-table restaurant in New York City's theater district before becoming an international chain. Diners sit around large tables where chefs ostentatiously chop, slice, stir-fry and grill. Entree options are simple--shrimp, chicken, steak and scallops--and preparation is uniform. Every entree comes with a similar stock of sides: rice, onion soup, shrimp ...
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Posted by Citysearch
on January 23, 2008, (Edited December 01, 2008)
My husband and I love the hibachi grill experience but were VERY disappointed with Benihana in Seattle! The soup was just chicken broth, they charged extra for fried rice, the chicken was chewy, and they didn't even have the traditional orange shrimp sauce!!! There wasn't much of a show and the server wasn't particularly polite either. The only good thing was the sushi and drinks. We are definitely ...
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I have been to the restaurant two times this month, once for grill and once for sushi. It was great experience to have food enjoying chef's performance for grill. But in the second visit for sushi, I was really annoyed by the terrible service of a waiter. She throwed forks, spoons, and glasses on the table. As my friends and I order more food, the service got better.