SHINJU Sushi and Hibachi

Phenomenal hibachi! The staff members are super friendly and funny. Our chef was amazing and made our order perfectly. This is a great place for big gatherings such as homecoming, birthday parties, family dinners, and more. Two grills=18 people (I think) so tons of room. They also have a bar so you can sit while you are waiting for a table. Overall, I would recommend! Keep up the good work!

Made reservations for 6; no wait time. Sat right away and server took drink order. The staff was attentive even though the restaurant was full.
The chef was fun and made sure he had the orders correct. He even threw the traditional shrimp in mouth.
I did see the shorter chairs/higher table issue from previous reviews, but honestly, it was not that big a deal! I am 5ft and there were several kids at our table. I was perfectly comfortable.
From the reviews to actually going, I was pleasantly surprised! I guess just overly dramatic PV people, or the restaurant listened to the reviews and made some changes, who knows. We will definitely be back soon.

The Hibachi was very good here! I enjoyed the presentation and was very satisfied with my food. If you got the steak for the Hibachi it was 21 dollars. For the amount of food you get I would say the price is worth it as you also get salad and soup included as well as a large portion of food. A great experience overall!

The place feels very new and clean. There's plenty of space in the waiting area. The dining room consists of three large hibachi tables which seat about 16 people each. The location is awesome and if they fix a few things, they'll be going gangbusters for a long time!

The hibachi tables were extremely frustrating because whoever designed the tables forgot to consult with the person buying the chairs. The tables around the hibachi grills are extremely tall and the chairs are extremely short. Each chair has at least one 4" thick cushion on top of the chair's cushion to get you closer to the tabletop. I'm not super tall at 5'8" and that made the tabletop mid-chest height even with the cushion. The thick cushion was covered in plastic which made it very hot and uncomfortable. My daughter is only 5' tall and even with a tall cushion, the tabletop was about armpit height. That makes for very uncomfortable eating. The highchairs for children end up with the child's face just below tabletop height. They need to get taller chairs and highchairs or add 4" to the floor.

The usual hibachi experience includes throwing pieces of shrimp to people so they can catch them in their mouths. A little show, a little fun, a little engagement with the staff. It's great. Unfortunately, this place throws pieces of scrambled eggs. They only scrambled one egg for the entire group's fried rice (there were eight of us) and they were trying to throw us bits of that egg? No thanks. Then they cooked shrimp and gave us each two pieces. Why? I'd rather they toss them to us, or just don't toss anything at all.

The food wasn't really inspiring. The fried rice was a bit sparse. It had some frozen peas and carrots in it, but not enough for the amount of rice they served. The rice had no crisp to it at all, it was just warmed on the grill. Not a lot of flavor except from the raw garlic paste they squeezed onto it which never cooked. The raw garlic flavor was unpleasant. The veggies that came weren't stirred up enough and pretty much all I got was zucchini which I don't like. My wife got most of the onions and carrots and one of my daughters got mostly mushrooms. I was worried about cross contamination of the vegetables because when the cook put the raw shrimp on the grill, one of them dropped into the already cooked veggies just before he passed them out. The "yum yum" sauce they served was pretty bland. Our group ordered a mix of steak and chicken. The steaks were ok and cooked to the right temperature, but they weren't very flavorful. The chicken was overcooked, dry and chewy. The salad that came with the meal was ok, but there were a lot of bitter center pieces from the iceberg and the salad was very overdressed. The soup that came with the meal was miso which none of us liked. The menu didn't say the soup was miso. Several of us ordered sushi and it was mostly pretty good. I ordered some salmon sushi and the pieces had a little of the brown meat on them which made the sushi not taste fresh. They need to get all the brown meat off.

The ambiance wasn't great. The lights were too bright and the windows didn't have any treatment on them so they were just huge sound reflectors. It was very loud with all the hibachi fans going and all the loud conversations. Some window treatments would help dampen the noise in the dining room. All the staff were wearing masks which made it impossible to hear them. Overall the service was ok but slow with our drinks going empty several times.

The sushi bar area had a massive amount of plates on it which made it look more back-of-house than front-of-house. The plates also completely blocked the view of the sushi prep area when you sit in the hibachi tables.

Like I said earlier, the place has a few tweaks to make and I hope they will take care of them because we'd love to love them and come back often. We'll probably give them another chance after they've had a few months to work out the kinks of owning a new business.