The food

The hibachi catering menu

Every guest gets the full sequence of salad, vegetables, proteins and fried rice, not a main course with sides attached. Adults choose 2 proteins as standard or 3 on the upgraded plate; children choose 1. Vegetarians choose tofu, at the same rate as everybody else.

Everything is cooked in front of you on the flat-top, which means there is no pass and no ticket between you and the chef. Tell them how you want your steak while they are cooking it.

COOKED IN FRONT OF YOU✦NO KITCHEN USED✦ALLERGY PLATES COOKED SEPARATELY✦FRIED RICE LAST✦

What every plate includes

Salad, vegetables and fried rice come with every plate, whichever proteins you pick and whatever you paid. Nobody orders sides. The fried rice in particular is cooked on the flat-top in front of you at the end of service, which is why it does not taste like fried rice you have had before.

Ginger side salad
Served first, with the house ginger dressing, while the grill comes up to temperature.
- vegetarian
- gf
Hibachi vegetables
Zucchini, onion, carrot and broccoli, cooked on the flat-top.
- vegetarian
- gf
Hibachi fried rice
Cooked last, in front of you, with egg and scallion.
- vegetarian
Yum yum sauce and ginger sauce
Both, always. Nobody agrees on which one is correct.
- gf

Choose your proteins

Adults choose two proteins as standard, or three on the upgraded plate. Children choose one. Everything is cooked to order on the flat-top, so tell us how you want your steak and it will arrive that way, because there is no pass and no ticket system between you and the chef. The five at the top are included at every plate rate; the three below them are charged on the one guest who takes them, never on the table.

Grilled chicken
Marinated, cooked through, and the one children ask for.
- gf
NY strip steak
Cooked to your temperature. Say it at the grill, not on the form.
- gf
Gulf shrimp
Large and local. This is the one that gets thrown.
- gf
- shellfish
Norwegian salmon
Seared on the flat-top, finished with citrus.
- gf
Tofu
Firm, seared hard on a cleaned section of the grill before anything else goes on it. A standard protein at the standard rate, not a surcharge and not a side plate.
- vegetarian
- vegan
- gf
Filet mignon+$10 per person
Centre-cut, upgraded from the strip.
- gf
Sea scallops+$10 per person
Dry-packed, seared hard, still rare in the middle.
- gf
- shellfish
Lobster tail+$20 per person
Split and grilled with butter.
- gf
- shellfish

Appetisers and add-ons

Shared plates that come out early, while the first proteins are still going. Groups over about twelve tend to add at least one, mostly because it gives people something to do during the stretch where everyone is still arriving from the pool. These are ordered by the plate rather than by the head: one order of gyoza feeds a corner of the table, not one guest.

Pan-fried gyoza+$10 per order
Ten pieces to an order. Crisp on one side, steamed on the other.
Edamame+$10 per order
Steamed young soybeans, lightly salted, served warm.
- vegetarian
- vegan
- gf
Noodles+$8 per order
Cooked on the flat-top alongside the rice.
- vegetarian

Dessert and drinks

Bring your own cake if there is one to bring; we clear and clean the station at the end of service, which conveniently gives you a table for it. What we can bring is the Japanese end of the evening, and it travels well in a cooler, so order it with the food and it arrives with the chef. Alcohol is yours, always.

Taiyaki wafer ice cream+$5 per order
Ice cream in a fish-shaped Japanese wafer. The one that gets photographed.
- vegetarian
Mochi ice cream+$3 per piece
One piece to an order, so a table can take as many or as few as it wants.
- vegetarian
- gf
Ramune marble soda+$6 per order
The Japanese soda with the glass marble in the neck, in a range of fruit flavours.
- vegetarian
- vegan
- gf

The table itself

Setting the table is optional, and it is the one choice on the booking form that changes what your evening actually looks like, so the form asks it plainly rather than leaving it buried here. Take it and you show up and bring your own drinks: everything the food sits on, and everything left behind afterwards, is ours. Leave it and the tables, the chairs, the plates, the utensils and the clean-up are yours to arrange. Most rental houses already sleep enough people to seat them, which is why this is a choice and not a fee.

Table setup, service & clean-up+$12 per guest
Tables, chairs, disposable plates and utensils, and the clean-up after the event. Charged on every guest at the table, children included, because every guest needs a chair and a plate.
Without setup
No charge. You provide the tables, the chairs and your own plates and utensils, and you handle the clean-up afterwards. The chef clears and cleans their own station either way.

Children’s plates

For ages five to twelve. One protein, the same salad, vegetables and fried rice, smaller portions, and no spice at all unless a parent asks for it. Children get the same show. In fact they get more of it, because the volcano is timed for them and the shrimp toss goes to anyone who puts a hand up. Thirteen and over is priced as an adult, and eats like one.

One protein
Chicken, steak, shrimp, salmon or tofu, with rice and vegetables.
- kids
- gf
Plain rice option
For the child who does not want anything touching anything.
- kids
- vegetarian

Allergies and dietary requirements

Tell us on the booking form and we plan the grill around it rather than working around it on the night. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and allergy plates are cooked on a cleaned section of the flat-top before the shared cooking starts, not scraped aside from a batch. Shellfish allergies in particular need advance notice, because shrimp is on almost every grill we run.

Gluten-free
Tamari in place of soy. Note that the noodles are not gluten-free.
- gf
Vegetarian
Tofu and vegetables, egg-free fried rice on request, at the standard plate rate.
- vegetarian
Vegan
Tofu, vegetables and egg-free rice, cooked first on a cleaned surface.
- vegan
Shellfish allergy
Needs advance notice, because we change the grill order so shrimp is cooked last.

What is not on the menu

Alcohol, and the cake

We do not bring alcohol, and we never will: the bar is yours, and every group runs it differently. Soft drinks we can bring, in the form of Ramune, and dessert we can bring as mochi or taiyaki — both are ordered with the food rather than decided on the night.

Bring your own cake. We clear and clean the station at the end of service, which conveniently gives you a table for it — and if you would rather not think about tables at all, setting them is a line on the booking form.

The numbers and the evening

Two proteins or three, per person

Nobody has to eat the same plate. The booking form takes how many of you want two proteins and how many want three, prices it as you type, and the individual choices are settled on the call before we shop.

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