Benihana - Anaheim

Dustin was amazing! Today was a sad, fearful day as the news was increasingly scary, and Dustin was fun, got the table engaged in conversation, and made the food perfectly. I considered cancelling our reservation due to virus concerns, but I am so glad we went!

The manager and the staff are very friendly and knowledgeable. I'd recommend my family and friends, if/when Covid-19 stops spreading and all the restaurants become back to life again.

I really enjoyed the food hector was the best cook I have ever experienced at Benihana. I will recommend all my friends and relatives to come here.

Great service, delicious food ! Enjoy how the food is prepared to our needs. First time for our kids and they enjoyed it all!

Everything was good except for the cook. The cook didn’t perform a good performance, seemed nervous and making a mess with the food.

Honestly the staff just didn’t seem that they were in a great mood, they all seemed annoyed and mad... our cook was great but our waitress was very slow and forgot a lot of stuff. To be honest the vibe at the Newport Beach location is so much better and the Anaheim location should really take notes because it was a let down

We dine at BH often about 12 times a year. This was the most fun we have had in a long time. We got lucky and had a great table, our groups didn't know one other but had an amazing night.

We had a very nice time. The food was great. A little problem with the bill. An alcoholic drink was included in our bill that we had not ordered.

Not very clean nor did we get what we ordered. Waiters hair was a mess and hanging in his face. Grabbing the glasses from the top when serving. Not cool.

Birthday celebration

My fiance and I chose to dine at Benihana on 3/10/2020 for our 10 year anniversary. We had chief Shivo whom was a great cook but we were seated with a former employee and his family. The whole dinner employees kept coming up to the table to to greet them very obnoxiously. The rest of the dinner Shivo and the employee kept discussing “the old days” of when they worked together. All of the women they would hit on, and women that they wanted to sleep with including the server. She was great, very polite and efficient. Shivo did not perform the traditional tricks that we so love to see when dinning at Benihana which was very disappointing. All left over food or upcharges would all go to the former employee and his family. For the most part, we all ordered the same thing from the menu yet we all received very different portions. Shivo was interacting with the former employee and his family instead of concentrating on his tricks and cooking. We felt left out the entire meal! We were looking forward to our meal at Benihana and were very disappointed with the way our evening turned out. Never could we have ever imagined such a nightmare of an anniversary dinner.

I will NEVER go back to that noise again. The portion sizes were very small, and I left hungry and broke. I had to ask for rice, I had to ask for water, I had to ask for tea. The cook tried to talk to us, but no one could hear him. What ever happen to Brussel spouts' that you used to serve? The place was dirty, and I walked out with a head-ack. Never again will I go there.

LATER the ONLY review this site allows are good ones. If you were honest (which you are not) you would also list words of discomfort - not only to ones YOU WANT to hear.

This place has been slowly going down hill and it was at all time high Saturday night. We have been going to this location for years and we will not be going back anytime soon. Pretty horrible. Rude people at the front desk and the food was not good. Very dissapointed.

Every thing was excellent!!!

Went on a double a date with my sister in law. Was a pretty good night. Our chef was quite funny.

Servers don’t take in consideration each table has different parties not everyone has the same experience an have a hurry to eat an get out for our experience we unfortunately experienced that cook an server only satisfied what huger group asked for to hurry an get out less than a hr very sad it’s one of my favorite place to eat when it comes to celebrating birthdays but this has made it the worst experience ever.

Our chef,Stivo, was excellent. Very engaging with guests and food was cooked very well. Our waiter, Zachary, was okay. He seemed very rushed and didn’t check on the table enough.

Everything is good. However, the server was seem rush. He did not serve me ice cream or even ask when he is clearly know I came in to celebrate my birthday. The chef is friendly and keep it entertains while he cooks. The food was good.

Food is always good. Wasn’t busy at before 4pm. Always love going here for my birthday.

Javier was very attentive, Andrew was downright hilarious! Great food prepared with style!

Excellent food, thanks Benny for preparing our meal.

Our table was not ready. We waiting for Chef about 45 minutes after we sat down. It felt rushed. The picture was horrible. I don’t expect a professional photo but what is the point when the rush thru it and present us with a bad product. It is overpriced. I was hoping to cash in on my bday certificate but they said I had to contact a third party vendor

Great food, Chef Omar was great. The restaurant was a little noisy. Small children running around unattended.

Food was great, but we sat at our table for about 50 minutes before our chef arrived.

Fun and relaxed dinner. Visitors from France enjoyed this.

We had Stivo as our chef and he was awesome. It was our kids first time and they enjoyed it so much. He made it fun. Everyone was friendly and the food was great!

From the moment we walked in the door the experience was great. We had a great time.

This is our favorite Benihana in SoCal, highly recommended. Sat us quick and great service

We loved our chef Hector! We will be back and requesting him again. The best yet! Michael and Amanda...

It was a nice experience. The chef was very entertaining but it was quite lively and noise level a bit elevated. The food was good.

We had a reservation and got seated right away. The server and the chef were very nice, especially to my 5 year old, who was frightened at first. Then she needed to loving the experience. Food was good and kept on coming it seems. Besides the you have to share a table with others and the limited space, especially when you have to entertain a 5 year old, overall is was very good.

My friend and I have been coming here twice a year for our birthdays three years now. It's my favorite tradition. Each chef brings something unique to the table, and I've never been disappointed with the food. The service is always great and we're seated within at least ten minutes of checking in. It's not a problem if it takes longer, though, because hanging out in the bar and getting a drink is fun. Literally my only bummer about here is no matter how many times they sing the birthday song, I can't seem to get the rhythm.

We'r had a fun evening with friends. Food was great, server was great and our cook Kevin was excellent.

Hambiente familiar. Comida deliciosa y muy divertido

Wednesday night was my sons 18th birthday and we decided to celebrate it at Benihana's Anaheim. Best decision I made that day. I've been to other Benihana's before mostly Ontario but let me tell you, I'll always come back to Anaheim from now on. The staff was great. The managers were awesome and funny. They made sure to accommodate my party of 12 which you know is hard to do with the seating situation. I was just super impressed. Thank you Benihana's Anaheim for making us feel welcomed.

Upon arriving at 730 host said great she would seat us as soon as she had a table clear so we thought that we would be getting in early since I reservation technically wasn't until 8 we did not get called until 8:12 p.m. upon getting seated we waited for 42 minutes. The chef was awesome I gave him a $20 tip unfortunately the people that we were seated with at the same table where rude and obnoxious all the men kept talking about was getting drunk and having sex very loudly they didn't bother to tip the cook and laughing that oh I don't have cash and then they very rudely gave the waiter cash to pay their bill. Make sure to get the change and did not bother to leave him a tip at all. it was by far the worst experience ever . the woman sitting next to my daughter just kept playing with her hair all night pulling and twisting over the table sometimes you hair ended up in my daughters food I have yet to decide if I will ever return plus it was for my birthday celebration I didn't even get my birthday certificate until 3 the following morning which is too late to use shame on you Benihana's

I always enjoy going to Benihana's in Anaheim. I have one not to far from my house but I prefer to go to this one. It's even better when we have Benny as our chief.

We had great service and great food at the Anaheim location.

The experience is worth it if you happen to get an experienced chef.

Not as good as it use to be. Chef appeared like he didn’t want to be there, no flare. Wait staff took 30 minutes to bring check and return credit card to me.