Benihana Westbury

Benihana's does Hibachi best, and everyone knows it. From its theatrics to its food, everything is exceptional every step of the way.

The spicy hibachi chicken is ACTUALLY spicy. As an individual of Bengali descent, I know what spicy is and get irritated when food that is supposed to be spicy is not. But Benihana's did spicy right and I loved it.

It is pricey, around $23 but worth it. Don't be tricked into getting chicken fried rice (it costs extra). Just get regular fried rice because you get chicken hibachi anyway and save some money.

Had a reservation at 6:00 we had to wait 32 minutes just to get a table which shows they don't honor reservations. One reason I go to hibachi is to have authentic Japanese chefs, and there are no Japanese chefs. Salad was ok, soup was ok, all vegetables were separate, who wants to have separate zucchini, separate mushrooms, and separate corn? Why? Our chef kept messing up with his tricks, and he broke the egg while he was spinning it. They didn't have any fire, except for the onion volcano. No broccoli/zucchini catching, no saki, no saki, no happy! Food was all good, but they kept messing up all the tricks! Our chef almost got it, but kinda brutally failed. This is why this place gets one star :(

Me and my wife love this place.....fine the chefs are Hispanic. So what!!! They are fully trained. I will be coming back again and again and agian and again ect.

Here is my experience taking my family to Benihana last week.
It was pouring out, and when we came inside, the hostess-a young hispanic girl- barely acknowledged us. There were 3 waitresses who stared at us with a look of displeasure. We informed the hostess we did not want to wait for the hibachi table and would like a regular table. She did not even make eye contact with us, pointed away from her while texting and without looking told us to seat ourselves in a section off to the side. There were only 2 top tables in the area and we stood there for a minute or two until a waitress asked us if we wanted to put a table together. At this point I'm standing there with two young kids-one autistic and another a five year old and a manager(male) came out and asked us if we wanted to be seated. He was cool. I was so mad about the whole situation I said in front of everyone- "let's go to PF Changs--and we did. I will NEVER enter that restaurant again. It was a wednesday night around 600pm.

Ghetto the waitress was so rude and rushed everyone. The manager didn't care after our complaint he was a jerk and the Hispanic male cooking the food doesn't understand English will never go back . GO to your local Japanese restaurant locally and save your money . I have no idea why people like this place HORRIBLE