Benihana - Cupertino

It?s really good food, though watch out cause the wait is long. Sometimes you have to wait up to 45 minutes after being seated, even with reservations . Remember to get the fried rice, because it?s insanely good. Also, the courses are really big, even kidmeal have soup, rice, some time of beef or sea food, salad, and ice cream.

Even after making the reservation we were asked to wait for around 20 minutes for our seating. Being the vegetarian the options seemed to be less , so we ordered Cucumber sushi roll,las Vegas roll without salmon,fried rice,yakisoba noodles and Benihanasalad. I loved the appetizers and the drinks was mouthwatering which we ordered was Mai Tai and exotic Mojito. Overall the goodexperience if you don?t mind server cooking veg and non veg on the same table.

A lot of the time it depends on the people you have at your table. We were lucky to have a good group. The chef was also very friendly and did a very good job with the food. I ordered rare steak, and that is what I got. Was very happy with the whole think.

Why ask, when making reservations online, if our visit will be a special occasion if it isn't acknowledged in the restaurant or by server? This has happened for both of our last two visits. We were hesitant to go for last night's dinner but we went anyway and the birthday was not acknowledged. Everything else is great, the food, service, ambience And yes, I could easily mention the birthday at the restaurant, but it's frustrating when I'm asked if we're celebrating and then nothing happens.

I made a 545 reservation we didn't get seated until 615 then we had to wait until the general manager came over to help us. He was amazing. But it still took our waiter a long time. And even longer for our food. we didn't get out of there until close to 8. We were to celebrate our daughter's birthday and it wasn't the best. I was hoping for a discount or something to compensate for all the waiting and lack of transparency.