Another February Birthday

Last Wednesday Mary celebrated her birthday and since it was her special day, she decided she wanted to go to the Sakura Japanese Steakhouse for her birthday celebration.  Many restaurants in this area give you a free birthday meal and when Mary found out that Sakura was going to feed her for free, there was no question that we were headed there.

Waiting for out table - Sakura Japanese Steakhouse

Of course I was a little skeptical since we are living in Florida where there so many good restaurants serving seafood and fish.  How can there be anything good about eating Japanese here?  The closest I get to Japanese is soy sauce.

Our chef Bruce Lee

When we first walked in, we had to decide if we wanted sushi or hibachi.  We know so little about sushi that it was a big relief when Mary said she wanted hibachi.  Of course I don't know anymore about hibachi than I do sushi.  Sushi just sounds so complicated.

Since there were only two hibachi chefs on duty that night, we had to wait for about an hour to eat.  The chefs make the entire meal right in front of you and for that reason, you are seated with a whole group of people.  We had a wonderful soup to start and then we watched as the chef cooked up the rice and vegetables.  This part of the meal did not excite Gary or Pat much but they were both delicious.  That could have been a meal for me.  Gary and I split a steak and shrimp entree and it was great plenty.  We all thought the food was excellent and there is no question we would go back.  We even got to use chopsticks but I really had a hard time with the soup so I just went back to using a spoon.

The chef makes the whole experience a lot of fun, we met some really nice people that we shared the table with and there was even another birthday so we doubled the celebration.

Birthday girls.

And for all our northern friends and family, I wanted to add some pictures of our Sanibel beach day this past week.  As I check the weather bug for today and see it is -15 wind chill in Minneapolis, maybe this will warm you up a little bit.  Or just piss you off.  I can only control so much.  Margaret