Tepanyaki Japanese Steakhouse — Restaurant in Orem

For those unfamiliar, Teppanyaki is a style of dining where a group sits at a table that has a grill built into one side where the cook makes your meal in front of you and usually includes an entertaining performance. Be prepared to laugh, to drop your jaw at amazing stunts, and to fill your belly with some delicious food.

POSITIVES: The decor is absolutely beautiful. From the moment I walked in, I was amazed with the cleanliness, the art pieces, and the general vibe of the restaurant. The hosts, servers, and cook are extremely friendly and were willing to accommodate us in our small requests. For example, my mother loves to order extra egg for the fried rice. We also requested a side cup of the salad dressing to dip our food in. Trust me when I say you need to try this.... THIS. TASTES. AMAZING. The steak was definitely the best choice, but you cannot go wrong with chicken, shrimp, or a combination.

After briefly relaying the purpose for our visit (i.e. my mother's birthday), they surprised her with a song and free birthday ice cream!

NEGATIVES: this isn't necessarily to the detriment of this business, but my stomach (like many others') is quite sensitive to asian food, so I spent a great deal of time in the bathroom immediately after I returned home. Also, the price is quite high, but you get a decent amount of food, plus great service/entertainment.

PRICE: approx. $25-30 per person.

VERDICT: I highly recommend this place to anyone looking for a date night, a work party, or even a family celebration. If I could come here weekly (if my wallet was as thick as I am), I would. For now, I anticipate the next opportunity to indulge and treat myself to some...

The downfalls of or experience: Spilled our tables soup all over us.(dropped to the floor and got on our clothes and baby) Didn’t bother cleaning up our table or replacing our plates. Our table was still dirty and had left over rice from the previous party. Appetizers came out cold Hovered over the check making us feel rushed. Didn’t bring out food that we asked for our meal either. Wasn’t customer focus. Didn’t feel like everyone was “all there”. Wasn’t good at listening. (Women at our table said no eggs in their fried rice and the waiter never wrote it down to tell the cook, so when the cook was making the food he didn’t know that she wanted no egg, which made him look bad.) Price is high for an experience you can have better at a place called Benihana up in SLC.

Oh look another hibachi restaurant. It’s not like Utah hasn’t seen these before. If you’ve been to one then you’ve been to all of them. Same kind of style food with similar flavors. Nothing special, other than the chefs who perform as they cook for you.

Our first time there wasn’t the best and will be our last because let’s face it what’s so special about this hibachi place? NOTHING!!!

If you like the same over price meals that you find at any hibachi place then come on down. And if you just want a good day night idea then go for it.

If you want good japense food though don’t go. There are literally 9 better Japanese food all around there. (Prices vary, but all good in their little ways and much better food quality than this place.)

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I dont usually write bad reviews, but I think this is important. Today I went in to eat with my family for my sisters birthday, and everything seemed fine, sevice was great, the chef was awesome. We had been in for dinner before, and loved it. About an hour or so after leaving, 4 out of the 5 of us got violently ill, while the 5th is nauseous. We all ate the same thing. Filet, salmon, fried rice and the soup/salad appetizers. My mom called and spoke to someone who didn't care at all and didn't even want to look into it, she said there was no way it was from the food. I called and the same thing happened, only this time I talked to a male. I explained to him I didn't want a refund I just wanted to inform him so others didn't get sick. He didn't even ask me what we ate. My mom is a registered nurse and is well aware the symptoms of food poisoning. Also I don't think its a coincidence that an hour after eating here we all got very sick. I work in the food industry myself and am aware of what causes food posioning. It could've been as simple as someone not washing their hands properly once, and just making our party sick, or a large batch of food being contaminated and making many others sick in addition to ours, either way it should be something management looks into, rather than acting like we were lying. We will never come here again because the management isn't willing to listen when there is a serious issue that needs to be dealt with. If management had listened, I would've come back because mistakes happen, but that just...