Benihana - review by pretzel

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:52:04 +0000

Benihana - review by pretzel

Rating: 2.5

Location: 77 Kings Road, SW3 4NX, London, United Kingdom

Phone: 020 7376 7799

Website: http://www.benihana.com

I experienced Benihana for the first, and most definitely last time, last night. If i'd dressed up in shoulder pads, stepped out of my gold capri and been arm in arm with a nice man sporting a moustache and 'burns, I couldn't have felt more back to 1980.
The 'reception' area is like a hotel foyer of the naffest kind. I assume they're used to truck loads of tourists and felt the need to pen my friend and I in there, refusing to allow us to go through to the restaurant area until the rest of our party of 10 had arrived.
Finally through to the restaurant area. I'm now in danger of sounding like Alan Whicker, but then the 'dinner theatre' began. x2 chefs set light to the teppanyaki plates, piled high onion rings into spouting volcanos, and fried up bits of fish, meat and seafood. At Â£18/head any restaurant would represent good value, but the food was bland beyond belief, totally inauthentic and frankly cheap and nasty. Since when did japanese food come with egg friend rice and onion soup? Since when did Japanese food come with horseradish dip, rather than wasabi? Benihana should have diversified in 1980 and gone into the Vesta Curry ready meal-market. It'd have been a totally natural brand extension.

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