A nice looking place with cheerful staff but miserably slow to bring out the meat and drinks. One of the burners was not working well, and a staff member dropped beer on one of us TWICE. Still, they let us stay and drink a very long time and the meat (when it arrived) was tasty. The price was good as well. We will try it again and this time ask for tables with functioning grills.

Definitely going downhill. We've been here many times over the years and usually had decent service, but tonight our grill was broken and wouldn't produce enough heat even to cook the thin sliced tongue. We told the staff and they immediately took the brass ring off the grill and restarted it, which got about 1/6th of the cooking area up to where it would cook meat slowly. It took about fifteen minutes after we'd been seated to get the grill working at all. The indicator on the grill wasn't working but they insisted it was really on high. Then it stopped working again so they reset it. This happened several times but they wouldn't move us to another seat even though there were several empty when we got there at 17:59. Our bad luck I guess, but then at 19:00 they told us it was last order. 61 minutes on a 70 minute plan (70 minutes ordering, 100 minutes table time) with a broken grill. The non-working sections of the grill didn't even generate enough heat to cook nori. Won't be back.

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