text: So my best friend in the whole world and another Yelper was born on New Years Day and her daughter was also born the same day What are the odds They wanted an intimate get together to celebrate both of their recent birthdays and this restaurant was their choice nnOkay no point in beating around the bushI will just come right out and say it our waitress was friggen awful She left us high and dry for several minutes at a time and she completely forgot to bring me a high chair Finally after waiting for about minutes for her to remember to bring me a high chair another diner at our table went and found one since I was having trouble keeping my wiggly daughter sitting on my lap nnAnd I could make a big deal about the fact that we were seated for probably minutes before she even took our orders and probably about more minutes before they brought us our appetizers and that she never even once asked if we wanted to see a drink menu and I finally had to ask if they even offered cocktails and that finally prompted her to produce a drink menu about minutes and another request later minutes I am not kidding nnSince my husband does not drink and is my permanent designated driver and we were celebrating I got a pineapple mojito minus the pineapple No I did not order my pineapple mojito without the pineapple it just came that way So it was just a mojito flavored mojito Now to be fair it was still a damn tasty mojito but I do not think it had passed within feet of a pineapple EVER I am just saying Our waitress obviously did not notice that when she got our order from the bartender either I just have to repeat it she really is not very good at what she does I am sorry I know that is harsh And despite the fact that I was in a party of three yes I knew the other diners but we were all on separate checks I still got hit with an automatic gratuity for a large party WTF Really Ugh nnBut then let us talk about the food When they finally decided to serve us food it was a mixed experience My baby daughter got a tempura plate and I think she really enjoyed it She ate a little bit of everything and enjoyed dipping her fried shrimp and veggies in the dipping sauce I tasted her food and it was not bad at all And the mushroom soup that comes as an appetizer with the teppan entrees is delicious I mean really really good I do not know how they prepare it but it was staggeringly good and I would have consumed a gallon of that stuff Also the salad with orange ginger dressing was very cold and crisp and delicious too nnFor dinner my husband ordered the vegetarian teppan and I ordered the combo teppan dinner with scallops and sirloin steak Side note I love scallops but the last times I had them prepared in a restaurant I had gotten violently ill I knew I was taking my chances with getting another bad batch but I wanted scallops again so bad I decided to roll the dice The good news I did not get sick afterwards these scallops were very fresh The bad news They were so fresh that they still had fresh little pieces of sand embedded all throughout them You never want to bite into a scallop and hear a crunch EVER Also my food was horribly over salted and I do mean horribly I am no shrinking violet when it comes to salt but this was too much salt even for mennAlso my scallops were done cooking a full minutes before my medium rare steak was done That kind of sucked as they could have easily been timed better by the chef Our chef was very friendly The fried rice that comes as a side with the teppan dinner was pretty good but nowhere near as garlicbutterytastic and delicious as the chicken fried rice served at another unnamed teppan place that I routinely go to in TempennThe damage for our whole dinner and my drink was about so it was not too bad in the grand scheme of fresh prepared teppan dinners I just wish the service had been better and the scallops had not been full of sand nnBut you know what is most important That my best friend and niece had a great birthday party And at the end of the night despite the hiccups with the food and service I think they did have a good time And THAT is still what matters most to mennPS Sandy scallopsYUCK