Friday, 09 July 2010
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Benihana Restaurant - San Diego, CA
This is a guest post from Kirbie's Cravings.
We celebrated Little Sister and her boyfriend's birthday two weeks ago. It took place a few hours after the epic Gaslamp Food tasting tour. I didn't think I'd be able to eat at all, but somehow was able to eat again by the time dinner rolled around.
It's been a really long time since I visited Benihana. I don't think there is much to say about the food. The food is nothing special and you are mainly there for the show and the group friendly environment. I would love to experience teppanyaki in Japan one day. I've experienced it in Taiwan and the food was incredibly good.
For some reason, every time I go to Benihana, we seem to get the chefs that are particularly inexperienced. I've heard of great shows, but my chef always seems to be dropping his knives and messing up. I'll let this post mainly be a picture post.
The special going on was a two person dinner for $39, chicken and filet mignon. Almost everyone went with that, except Little Sis got the Seafood trio. I will say that the seafood trio tasted better than I expected. Everything else was just okay. The food was simply cooked, so there's not much to talk about.
We started with some cocktails:
Our meals came with mushroom soup:
Salad:
Little Bro ordered a seared beef appetizer:
Lil Sis' BF ordered a Las Vegas sushi roll:
Here is the famous fried rice:
Here's our food slowly coming onto the table:
At the end, the birthday kids were serenaded with a song and given some pineapple.
Benihana Restaurant
477 Camino Del Rio S
San Diego, CA
(619) 298-4666
www.benihana.com
Do you ever return to restaurants even if the food isn't that great?
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Comments (9)
I don't think the rice is famous, just the portion. It's a HUGE amount. lol
benihana's ok, i've had better experiences at other places. it's really water down japanese food.
i went to one when i was on a weekend vacay... it wasn't that great and the soup tasted nasty... the chef was a mexican.. no offense.. but i was expecting authentic japanese! but it wasn't... and then a few months later we went to the one in our town... we opt to sit in the dinning room without the grill and ordered sushi and it was actually pretty good!
I live in Tijuana and I go to San Diego at least once a week. Pretty often we just dont know where to eat, we are done with fast food and a lot of the sit down restaurants are out of our budget. Thank you so much for doing this reviews and keep them coming!
Those sushi rolls look so pretty!
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