Watami Hibachi Steak House

If you want great food, GO! If you like to laugh, eat, drink good saki and have food to take home, you must try it! Our chef practiced safe food handling to a T, made us all laugh until we had tears, paid special attention to our 4y.o. granddaughter and the people celebrating birthdays, he juggled and made us all feel special! Did I forget to mention how good the food is and how big the portions are? Our new "Go-to" for a nice night out! Vegetarian options: He had to make a vegetarian dinner amongst all the meat eaters. Took care of her before anything else touched the grill. Kid-friendliness: They were wonderful with our granddaughter. Parking: Great parking, plenty of space.

While I didn't go to the hibachi side of the restaurant with all the party animals that sounded like they were having a blast, I still have a lot to say about the rest of the experience. This is not the place to go if you wanna impress someone. This seems to be the place to go to have some fun, get a little or very tipsy and watch the chefs do their thing with fire and alcohol spraying around. The neon beer signs in the windows and the old furniture is less than inspiring. You get sort of a grimey feeling being there. Next, service service, service. I think our waitress needs to have retraining sessions. She was fairly rude, and seemed to ignore us quite a bit. Perhaps it's because it was somewhat busy at first but even later when there was hardly anyone she was still very rude and seemed to ignore us. There were also a lot of serving faux pas like reaching across the whole table rather than moving to the other side which was open and many more things to be improved on. The mixed drink

I just went to watami steakhouse hibachi 2/1/22. Do not ever!!! Eat at Watami!!! They will serve you contaminated food! And give a 15% discount and cover your medical bills if you get sick. But what if you die? It isn’t ain't right! Food safety is paramount!!! There is no but... there is only get it right the first time!!! An "oops, we forgot to modify your food" is one thing. But "oops, we did something that could kill you" is absolutely intolerable!!! And just to be clear about what happened. He put chicken bacteria in ready to eat products and served the ready to eat product to my family and I. And when I said something to the manager, she said well that's how hibachi goes. Umm, no. Food safety trumps culture, cooking styles and any restaurants motto. They served contaminated food. Persons who perform the act of preparing food for human consumption in what some people believe is in an entertaining fashion(a cook, a chef) are using that long spatula/turner/flipper tool to handle both