Benihana - Coral Gables, FL

Birthday celebration

I love Benihana.. its our go to for family celebrations spots! My daughter especially loves going there to celebrate when she gets Honor Roll... however, the wait is unbearable. You show up at your reservation time, and you aren't' in your seat ordering drinks minimum of an hour after. And by the time the chef makes it out, you have easily there 1.5 hours waiting for the food to start being cooked!

Its fun if you are there having drinks with a large group of friends, and you have all the time in the world... but for our family meals, we will have to find another place to celebrate :( its just not fun anymore.

Food was Great but it took 2 hours for someone to come cook for us.

Excellent service, and the food is always on point

We celebrated my 35th Birthday and our server Joseph was incredible and so professional, we were very pleased with our Chef Oscar as well and the entire ambiance

My moms 66 bday

Great food and great service

A very disappointment experience.
I had been there many times and yesterday was awful. Manager should be removed. No customer service manners. I’m contacting corporate tomorrow

Best service ever had the chief was on point and we didn’t have no complaints

Food was great, significantly better than Samurai. Restaurant was clean, but it could benefit from some dimmer lighting to create better ambiance. It's just a bit outdated with some of the seating on the booths being torn. Carlos, our chef, was very friendly. Our waitress was also very sweet and helpful. We would return.

The chef was nice but I excepted a bit more of entertainment and the ambiance was subpar for the price. The food was great though.

We had a great time! We definitely prefer this one to the other more noisy locations.

Wasn’t satisfied with the wait time had 5:15 reservation and was told it takes 45 minutes after you place your order. Which I seen other tables not wait that long.

Waited 1 hour before our chef came to the teppan to prepare our meal. Possibly due to lack of chefs for that shift. Otherwise the food and service was excellent.

We had reservations for 5:30 (small child with us) and the food didn’t start getting prepared until 7:00

Great food and excellent service!! Julio was a fantastic Chef!

We went on Christmas Day it was a great experience

Absolutely horrendous. Wish I could give a zero for customer service. Never coming back.

Exeñente todo! Nuestro chef muy amable y todo excelente. Pasamos navidad alli

Great place for family get-togethers and enjoy dinner and a show!

We told them beforehand that we could only eat fish and there was no tuna

The staff was not amenable. We asked to move the dinner by an hour which they didn’t accept. Then we came in time but made us wait for an hour to sit at the table

Overall poor value for money and bad service except for the chef who was very nice

The service was terrible but food was good.

It’s a great go to. I always know the food is going to be good. I also love their sushi. Staff here was very nice: I enjoyed my dinner here.

We arrived before our reservation time and waited by the bar for 20 min. Once seated our order was taken. After that it was all downhill. We waited 2 hours for the chef. The restaurant was full with only 3 tepanyake chefs. Food was good but various items were missing and the chef kept having to request additional food to cook. Bottom line got there at 4:15 and left at 7:30.

Great food, we arrive 10 minutes late and loose our table that was the only bad thing

amazing food

I love Benihana. Food was amazing, chef was pleasant, but when I pay for something I expect great service as well. The waitress was not attentive and I asked for water and had to call someone else over to bring it after waiting 30 mins. I would say do better and be more attentive.

I’m a regular customer, food is great but the carpet is dirty and stinky.

Great food and service - Welcome was a bit abrupt as we were told to wait at the bar area until the 4th member turned up.

Half our party was seated in a very drafty/ac wind area which is not preferred when we are already in cold weather. Food was excellent. Chef was excellent. Our Server was amazing. She made the experience exceptional. Special thank you to her.

Benihana simply GAVE AWAY my reservation and I had to take my 12 yr old daughter to Cheesecake Factory across the street

We were immediately sat down when we arrived so I world recommend reservations. Once we were seated, the waiter took our order and brought soup and salad. After that , we did not see him again. No refills. It took the cook about 40 minutes to get to our table. He must’ve had a rough night or was ready to get off by, it was the longest and boring experience I’ve ever received. Rice was a little salty and bowls weren’t even filled like he didn’t have enough to go around. The vegetables were burnt. And I really mean burnt like you can peel the char off of the zucchini. I was immediately turned off to eating the rest of the meal. Then he must’ve realized he was leaving the food too long and undercooked the shrimp. The best thing was the steak which was cooked medium well. This is the 3rd time I’ve been to this location and the service is alway lacking but this is the first time the food has been awful. I would recommend the restaurant but stay away from coral cables location. And parking is horrible so arrive early to wait for parking or walk from the garages in the area

Always fun to go there with the kids.

The best execution ever.

Dessert for teppanyaki is only ice cream. Not even tempura… very sad

Always everything goes great - its just too much noise - food is great...

The food is just not good. Came out cold to our table, the colossal shrimp were so overcooked and had no flavor. Steak was OK, but also raw in the middle. Onions were the best part of the meal.

New chef. Food lacked flavor, salt etc. he told us up front that he didn’t know how to do all of the special”show” stuff they do. So it was boring and food tasteless.

Our waiter and chef were beyond amazing. I wish I knew the names.

As always it was a fun experience and good food. Very accommodating with small kids.