Iron Chef — Restaurant in Wallingford

What can I say about iron chef? I was taking there for a birthday dinner- let me start off by saying my experience was enjoyable only because of the people I was with. First, we were yelled at because we weren’t sitting in the right seats. Then, we waited so long for our drinks only for two of our party, not to get theirs. These are minuscule issues that I would never waste my time in writing a bad review. Here is where it really all started to go south. The salad veggies were soggy. The majority of us got either the chicken in the filet mignon or the shrimp in the filet mignon. Now I hardly ever eat meat, but when I do, it’s the filet and if you know anything about filet, you know they don’t have fat and I don’t know if I was chewing on fat or muscle. The shrimp had an odd texture l couldn’t quite put my finger on. But this is the icing on the cake… As I was trying to enjoy my miso soup, I felt a little tickle in my throat, want to guess what it was? Two. Very long, black hairs.. I went to the front to ask for the manager, aside from being ignored for 20 minutes, I was then told there was no manager there. There were five of us in our party, and the least expensive dinner was $32.00 With drinks I’m assuming our bill came to at least $215.00 No, I don’t know the exact number or with my friend gave as a tip-but knowing how generous she is, I’m a you at least $250. I gave the chef a $20 fir the hibachi show. And do you know we didn’t even get as much as an apology? DO NOT GO TO IRON CHEF!! THIS PLACE WAS SO BUSY…AND I KNOW ITS NOT BECAUSE THE FOOD IS SOO GOOD. IT IS NOT!!! I am disgusted that a local business can stay in business wirh this level of service. I told the hostess that the wait staff should at least have their hair up… And when our waitress gave us the bill, she had her hair in a ponytail. Go here at your own Risk… I will relive pulling that long black hair from going down my throat for a very long time. And I am writing this, I’m just realizing I never even said happy birthday. They know that we were there for a birthday party. God I wish that was my only...

Very disappointed with this restaurant the past few times we have gone. A couple of weeks ago my boyfriend and I had went for hibachi. The chef took longer than expected to come out and cook our food. My boyfriend was eating his dinner and suddenly needed to spit something out, to our horror there was a large bone from a piece of meat mixed into his food. We decided to give them another shot today and went for sushi. Our waitress had a very nasty attitude and was VERY rude. It took us 15 minutes to get something to drink, and then she disappeared for another 15 minutes (mind you we were the only ones in there). She finally came back and took our order and once again disappeared. 10 minutes goes by and I see our sushi get put on the counter ready to be served. Our food then sat on the counter for 25 minutes because our waitress was once again no where to be found! We finished up very disappointed with the service and paid and proceeded to walk out the door. Our waitress then chases us out the door saying that “the tip is not enough” “there’s no tip” and “you need to leave a tip”. So to the waitress with very very short hair you should be ashamed of yourself and i hope you think about your service skills before you chase someone out the door for...

Made reservations for my sons birthday... Worked around restaurant's request to come earlier and we did, we then waited to be seated, waited for service, my sushi roll I ordered was missing ingredients And even after alerting the staff, the ingredients weren't brought out, nor was any discount put on the bill...the hibachi food tasted very good and was cooked well, but there wasn't any show or anything, hard to get refills from servers, and as soon as we were done eating, I received the bill... We didn't even get asked If we wanted any dessert or anything like that, which would have been nice since it was my son's birthday and I would have liked to have gotten him a fried ice cream, but at this point the staff were just pushing everyone out, it wasn't even 8pm! Bill was also wrong, And of course they put an 18% gratuity on it, so even after they fixed the bill and lowered it because we didn't get what was on the bill they left the tip at the higher amount, and even when I noted it, they still charged my card for the higher price....