Salty !!! Oh My God, Soooo Salty. Couldn't eat the most basic miso soup. The chef was great and the co waitresses were good. Over 2 hours for dinner, too long. Loud and hectic. There's a lot to be said for a quiet restaurant atmosphere. Fun for kids, but adults need reality. Plus it was all so salty. read more

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Great food but takes 3 hours before the chef even comes out. Very crowded and noisy. We arrived here at 7:00 pm and it is almost 9:30. Our chef has not even come out yet. We are so hungry!!! read more

Easily the worst Benihana I've ever been too. We sat down. Had a full table. And the they half filled the table next to us and sent a chef to the other table (that was seated 20 minutes after us). And yet we still had no chef. Our chef was terrible. Very unskilled. Did none of the tricks. Also left food (chicken) hanging OFF the grill and on the table where it was NOT being cooked. He did this multiple times and I had to tell him to move the food onto the grill. Overall the worst Benihana experience I've ever had. I would give this place 0 stars if I could. read more

Always a great night at Benihana. One minor issue but the chef made up for it by giving us a great show with our meal. Meats are very fresh. I didn't care for the salad dressing on this visit but the steaks, shrimp and lobster and veggies were perfect. See photos. read more

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There are several places trying to do what Benihana does. This was my first time eating at Benihana and it's sooooooo much hype! They put almost 1 to 1 ratio of butter in the rice. Which ruined it a little. It would have tasted better with just a little less butter. My salmon was over cooked as well as my zucchini. The zucchini was just a mushy mess. The servers were really nice and pleasant which is always a plus. The drink were also pretty good. The wait time wasn't too bad but we did have reservations. read more

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I've been going to Benihana for over 30 years, but our latest visit to the Boca Raton location was a huge disappointment. We had a 5:45 PM reservation for a party of 10, including young kids and infants. We weren't served until 7:30 PM, while our cousins at a separate table (same time) finished and left by 7:00. There was no hibachi show, no fire, no entertainment--none of the usual experience. We had to leave before the included desserts were served, so we paid for things we never received. The manager only showed up when we hunted her down and offered us edamame--then disappeared. No follow-up, no care. Truly upsetting experience. read more

My first time here and WOW!! Gabe, our chef, was AMAZING! And absolutely hilarious. My party of 8 thoroughly enjoyed the hibachi experience and this made my dad's birthday so special and memorable. Whatever Gabe is getting paid, he needs a raise, because I never get this kind of service. Highly recommend! And I asked an interesting question, how much of the tip goes to the Hibachi chef? Only 7%!?! I was shocked. Not cool. They are the ones literally serving us the food. Not cool Benihana. Not cool. read more

It was my first time in Benihana in a long time. I had forgotten what I was missing! The food was delicious! Cannot wait to go back.

Came here for lunch on a weekday and took close to two hours. Reserved on open table and, even with reservations, the likelihood that you won't be seated on time is extremely high. The staff were extremely friendly but it got to the point where all the other diners at our table agreed to ask the chef to just make the food, without all the bells and whistles, as we all just wanted to eat already. For the price, there are other places to go to and enjoy a meal within a reasonable amount of time. read more

This location is somewhat poorly run and/or understaffed. The wait to sit even with a reservation was approximately 30 minutes my most recent visit. The manager was apologetic and did the best he could to accommodate. That's really my only gripe. The food is always spectacular and fresh. Something about a Benihana that just hits different! read more

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Deli the chef was amazing! Super funny and entertaining. Such a great guy. Hope you get him!

Terrible service. Check my Google review for more details. They ignored it. Extremely disappointing experience, never even got around to eating. Waited for almost an hour for someone to acknowledge that the 2 in our party and 6 in another party were even there. Even after myself and someone in the other party went and found the hostess " they will get there". There were 2 parties there. Mostly empty read more

Had a wonderful lunch today at the Boca Raton, FL. Benihana. Enjoyed the lunxh selection that allowed you to choose 2 different proteins. I selected scallops and shrimp. The meal began with a basic salad with freshman ginger dressing, delicious! Then the chef came out and cooked in front of us, with the tricks and conversation. Just a sensational dinning experience.​ read more

This place is sloppy and dirty. The board of health needs to stop by and give an honest rating. Sat at the bar while waiting to be seated. The station going into kitcywaa a disgrace. Trash over flowing and on the floor. I witnessed a waitress fling something towards the overflowing waste basket It hit the floor she laughed. At the service bar it was untidy but no one took the time to clean away debris to make the area workable. They all just worked around it. Next was the long fingernails. This should be a no no in any eating establishment. Now realize this is only 10 minutes in. Now seated at Hibachi table with a family. I guess the are fine with the dirty grill. I was certainly not. I asked the waiter the grill was going to be cleaned. He has assured me it would be. We are waiting for our Hibachi Chef. He may be busy looking for a clean cleaning rag. We shall soon see. Rudy showed up and as promised the grill was cleaned. The food was very tasty which made up for first impression. To the management. If you would like me to work for one weekend, I would g gladly oversee and make sure the place was clean they went, bidders cleared areas before the customer was offered dessert as we weee not. I piled dishes but not enough hint If you think this is lengthy o sorry but now is the time when We are paying more than Weber and getting less and less. read more

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Emilio at the Boca location provided excellent service. He was quite engaging and made the young girl at our table birthday, extra special by lighting the volcano a few times. Also, the food was delicious. read more

Amazing service and Chef Nelly was awesome. She catered to our dietary requests and food was best hibachi we have had! Thank you

I have been going to this location for years and today's service was horrible! Especially for a bill totaling over $120 for one adult & child.They initially gave my seat to someone else and it took over 25 minutes for anyone to greet us with at least a water once sat at an new table. This is one of my daughter's favorite restaurant. I would rather drive an additional 20 miles than deal with this type of service. read more

Two Leo birthdays in the same week and both wanted to have Hibachi. Both parties live in West Palm Beach. But only one made me travel 25 miles to eat here. It wasn't worth it. At this point I think people only eat here for nostalgia purposes. That is completely fine but with other hibachi spots popping up this is just an OK average experience. Setting reservations was unnecessarily difficult. For whatever reason the person answering the phone didn't seem to know how to set the reservation. We get there with everyone but 3. They told us it would be a 90 minute wait - quick math 1.5 hrs even with reservation. And that they maybe able to get us in early if everyone appears. 10 minutes later the last 3 appear. They still say another 90 minute wait. We use that wait to check out DSW and a liquor store in area that was having a vodka tasting. We get back with 10 minutes to spare and told it's going to be an additional 20 minutes. When we are finally seated and taken drink orders. We wait long enough for all the ice to melt before the chef (not at all friendly) appears. It was just sad. Multiple times we told the GOH - "You know we're only here because of you." Waiter moved with just as much enthusiasm at the chef, except when it was time to bring out checks. But then took forever bringing over takeout containers. That is just an OK average experience. But it seems like the bartenders kept a living crowd around them. read more

Food was great , service was great ! Chef Nelly & service Steffany were awesome ' you should defiantly request them when you decide to come in ! read more

I love having chef Gabe as my hibachi chef and Colin as my server , would definitely recommend them for a great experience! will definitely come for them ! read more

Our chef Nelly was fantastic! I would give 6 stars if I could! We had a special celebration dinner and she was awesome. Props to Nelly! Our server Melissa made sure we had everything we could need and checked back often. The food was delicious. The service was top notch! read more

I was anxious to dine there based upon previous experiences which had been enjoyable. This time, despite plenty of waitstaff an very few customers, service was terrible. We finally got our cocktails, an decided to move to the hibachi dining room. Since no one was available to seat us, we joined a group at a table. Then a waitress asked us to leave and there was a 15-20 wait!! No one else was there Ee waited about 5 minutes. We asked for the check to pay for our cocktails and told "hostess " we were leaving. She immediately said she could seat us right away. Why the sudden change?? We left as we decided and took our business elsewhere. We are now extremely disenchanted with you unwelcoming atmosphere and unpleasant staff. We prefer to dine elsewhere. read more

They have really bad service and rude workers. Food is great but with that kind of management might as well cook at home. Don't depend on a reservation because they'll still wait another 30 minutes to seat you, and this is coming from multiple experiences not just this once. They'll even be times where you'll be seated they'll take your order and wait for ever to make sure no one else is joining your table before they start cooking. And if someone does join your table be sure to wait at least another 30 minutes before someone comes out to cook because they now have to wait on the other order. read more

Place was dirty and not ready to receive customers. Tables was not setup I had to fetch all silverware myself to the entire table. Rice was burned and chefs not ready because had to come to the kitchen to pickup missing items read more

Good meal. We requested light butter on our orders, and the chef accommodated us. A loud, repetitive whistling noise went off several times each minute. Sounds like a bird whistling. read more

Vhan was EXCELLENT as a chef. The food was very tasty and well prepared. Very engaging chef and I highly recommend experiencing Vhan and his chef skills! Very busy night on Father's Day. Service at the table was a little subpar. We Had issues with drinks and having to ask other servers for our server to return. read more

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We arrived mid-afternoon on a Sunday, thinking the restaurant would be quiet. It was fairly busy. The ambiance was typical of other locations in this chain. While our food tased good, the preparation was quick and quiet. We were looking forward to more of a show. Our chef was purely a chef. Our server forgot our wine; which she did remove from our bill. The plates on the table were dirty. When we requested more, the server wiped food off one of the plates as she put it on the table. Our bill for 4 people was $164 without alcohol. Two dollar signs is a large joke. It was too much to pay for sloppy service. read more

Read the awful reviews written and almost cancelled. Glad I didn't. Service was wonderful and courteous. Food cooked by Chef Nelly perfect. It was a wonderful nite. One thing the bathrooms were a disaster. Need to pay attention to that. read more

Food is always delicious. My favorite is their onion soup. The service is always amazing. Thank you Kevin J for an amazing experience yet again at Benihanas. read more

This was my first Benihana experience! I had Rocky's Choice and the delicious Red Flower Hibiscus Blend tea. I enjoyed the food and the atmosphere. Our chef was entertaining. I will return because I'd like to try other menu items. read more

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I love coming here! I can only go so long without stopping by a Benihana because by of the hibachi grill , table and the teppanyaki style. Our chef Gabriel was super talented and cool! Our server Melissa is a queen and so sweet! It was my nephews first time and he is 5 years old so it was pretty cool because he actually behaved. I try to go at least once a month. read more

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Let me first start by saying that I've been going to Benihana since I was a kid in NY, and I have regularly taken my kids back in CA. This newer Benihana in West Boca takes the prize for the absolute worst Benihana that I've ever been to. My family and I brought my son here for his college graduation dinner. Once we were seated, things went South fast. Leah was our server. SheShe took our drink order and disappeared for atleast 10 minutes. We watched 2 tables get seated after us and watched them put their food orders in before we even saw Leah come back with our waters! This was the theme throughout the evening- constantly looking for our server. We finally had the host come help us. After having to ask for salads, the host and our server arrived with bowls of dry salad (no dressing). I've been to Benihana franchises atleast 30-40 times in my life (my kids favorite place) and we've always had full bowls of salad with dressing. These bowls were not even half filled with salad. Same table next to us had great big bowls of salad WITH dressing. Our dressing came atleast 5-7 minutes after the lettuce arrived. Trey was our chef and he was great. Great chef- entertaining and the food was to Benihana standard. I was grateful to him for lightening the mood a bit at our table. The dipping sauces were wayyyy off from any other time have dined at Benihana. Both colors were different but the mustard sauce tasted like mayo. When I asked chef why, he said that it depends on who's making the sauce back there. Benihana has always held the same standard and consistency with their food. Any changes to the menu are made throughout the entire franchise. So unless they've changed their dipping sauces in the last couple of months since I dined at Benihana, these sauces at Boca location were not the same recipe. Lastly- I need to mention our bill. Every dinner order comes with steamed rice, but you can upgrade to fried rice. I noticed that Leah charged us not only for additional orders of fried rice (instead of an upgrade charge to our dinners) but for additional bowls of steamed rice, which should have been FREE!! Not sure what kind of shady business is going on with this chick but I find it disgusting that she's trying to up her bills by overcharging people. That's in addition to the poor service. When someone pays the amount of money that it costs to have a meal here, the service should be absolutely impeccable. Boca Benihana has missed the mark completely. Worst Benihana I've ever been to- will not come back to this one again. read more

We were there to celebrate our friend's 80th birthday. It was a super experience- the manager was highly involved in making sure everything was perfect! Our server was awesome - he kept us laughing and enjoying ourselves. He was a great cook!!! read more

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Great experience, love coming to this place, third time and it never gets boring, you need to try the Tuna Tartare, is really good!! Congrats to the staff, the service has improved. read more

Placed a big order for my family for "pick up". Once I got there at the time stayed to pick, had to wait a whole hour. My husband tipped the person preparing the food anyway. Finally, we all sat down to have a delicious meal BUT the hitachi spicy chicken was inedible. It's like the chef played a joke and saturated the whole entree with the hottest sauce out of the world!!! I actually like hotter dishes but this dish was definitely NOT right. Even my husband barely could eat his meal and said the same. The $6 salad was just a couple pieces of old lettuce. I poured the ginger dressing over the salad and it tasted horrid. Only thing that tasted descent was lemonade (ordered mango lemonade but just gave us lemonade) and shrimp tempura. The tempura vegetables were soggy and vegetables were not cooked enough. What a waste of money and time. My husband went back to complain and all the manger did was give him a $20 gift card. Seriously, we aren't going back. read more

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Service was terrible our server a tall girl with dark hair was beyond rude and unprofessional, she had an attitude from the moment she approached the table, the food was mid & not worth the mark up price.  There's a reason why all the recent reviews are reflecting poorly on this Benihana, by far my worst experience and i will not be returning. Oh also worth mentioning don't even waste your time speaking with the management they are equally unprofessional. read more

An early dinner reservation that wasn't confirmed from the host/hostess however it didn't matter since my significant other and I were greeted and sat within a matter of minutes. The staff was friendly, our hibachi chef was very entertaining, and the food and drinks were delicious. read more

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Bennihanz is aight. It's a bit over priced for something I can cook at home probably. I mean if you come here you either like the sushi or the entertainment. And we got neither. Don't know how they can charge so much for a small bowl of fried rice,3 shrimps and like 10 steak but ok. Lol. We should have sat at the hibachi station so we could ignore the fact that we paid that much for dinner here. The food tasted alright tho. It was salty but tolerable. We were just dissatisfied that it didn't really hit the spot. Maybe come back for lunch as everything is almost half the price. Overall, service was ok. One check up better than none. By her body language, she seemed bothered by our indecisiveness. That's where she should have came in and gave recommendations but that's just me. read more

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The Short: Standard Benihana chain with above average service food and service. The Long: Came into Benihana for some lunch and lucky for me they also have specials going on during that time. Was greeted by the hostess and promptly sat at a table. I opted for a regular table instead of hibachi as I was in a bit of a hurry. My server was friendly and fast at bringing out my water and taking my order. I ended up going for the filet mignon lunch special which was right around $15. It came with soup and veggie fried rice. I opted to upgrade to chicken fried rice for $1 more. Food came out shortly thereafter and was delicious. I would recommend this location as it is one of the newer locations that have a nicer layout than the older locations. It feels open and clean. If ever in the area and craving some hibachi, I will deff make another stop. read more

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My mother and I came here to eat lunch together. We arrived at 2:50pm. The host asked us if we would like a lunch menu or dinner menu. I said lunch. We sat down at the hibachi table. I ordered 1 lunch scallops and my mom had 1 side of fried rice. When the bill came it seemed higher than usual. Looking at the bill I noticed that I was charged incorrectly. I let the server know and he brought the manager over to our table. The manager states that I got a dinner portion there for I should pay for a dinner. I explained to the manager that I ordered lunch and not dinner. She asked me what time I came? I said 2:50pm. She said basically that's 3pm. And we stop serving lunch at 3pm. I said to her that I arrived before 3pm. And was given a lunch menu. The manager states that there are only four scallops in the lunch portion and eight scallops in the dinner portion. Then the manager proceeds to tell me that you must have known that you were eating a dinner portion versus the lunch size portion. I told her it is not my job to count my food. I told the manager politely that you made the mistake and you need to own up to your mistake. I am not paying for something I did not order. The manager wanted to give me missing items that come with a dinner portion of food and make me pay the price for a dinner. I said I don't want any more food to make up for the mistake that you made. I just simply want to pay for what I ordered. She took $20 off the bill and asked me if I was satisfied, the bill was still too high so I told her no I'm not paying for that. The manager said I will take an additional five dollars off of the bill. I said that will be fine thank you. read more