Very nice chain restaurant. You have a choice of sitting at a sushi bar, a regular table or a table with a built-in grill. At the regular table or the sushi bar, your dining process begins as soon as you are seated. But the true Sakura experience is sitting at the table with the built-in grill and having your meal prepared right in front of your party. Then the food prep is a performance experience. If you have a party of eight or ten, you can start the experience right away. If you have a smaller party, they may want you to wait until there are enough patrons to fill all or most of the seats. After your orders are taken and the drinks, soup and salad courses are served, your chef will come to your table and start preparing the entrée. He will start by grilling some eggs, adding rice and some oils and spices to make the fried rice. Then he'll put some vegetables and meats on the grill and start preparing everything that has been ordered at the table. There will be some flames as part of the prep, and there's a volcano made from an onion. At the end of the food prep show, the grill is cleaned. It's an interesting process. I have included lots of pictures. I probably should have just taken a video, but the customer is eating during the food prep performance. I was eating during the food prep performance. I had onion soup, a mild, tasty broth with a few chopped scallions. The salad and the rest of the meal was tasty, but not excellent. Still, the whole dining experience was pleasant and worth the price. This is a good place to bring children. The children at our table, and the kids at the tables near us, seemed to be enjoying the show put on by the chefs at each table.

My rating is a bit optimistic and instead I would give this place a '3.75'. I thought the main entree was solid but the soup and salad were lackluster. Soup had little to no flavor and I wasn't given a choice on the salad dressing (dressing tasted water down?). I don't expect a meal from a Japanese steakhouse to be cheap but I do expect more if I'm paying roughly $30 for a meal.