Nashua has three Teppanyaki Japanese restaurants.
Two of them, Tokyo Steakhouse and Takumi, are located virtually across the street from each other and are bitter enemies in terms of their approaches to their culinary genre.
Tokyo Steakhouse is decades hold and more traditional than its cross street rival, with more Americanized ingredients and a less styled decor, while Takumi has a posh koi pond in its lobby and a more Japanese feel to its meals and its interior design.
Mikata is somewhere between the two, except for geographically, as it is about as far northwest you can get in Nashua while still being in Nashua (you can see Merrimack out the window, which is just across Pennichuck River, also viewable from Mikata's dining room)
There is next to no lunch rush as Teppanyaki is slightly more formal, so I went in there and the place was empty, but the genre and location makes it inappropriate to take anything away from that in this case.
Likewise, the entire Teppanyaki as expensive meme also falls apart to a degree at lunch, as the Hibachi Chicken, their cheapest Teppanyaki dish, is less than $10 at lunch, comparable to high end fast food meals.
I decided to get that as well as some fried rice and a Shrimp Tempura Roll. This drove up the price from a comparable to fast food level to a more common level for medium paced sit down restaurants, but if that's what you're looking for, it shouldn't be an issue.
They didn't offer to cook the food at the table though, i've been to these types of places so many times that i've become jaded to the cooks flipping vegetables into their hats and making volcanoes out of onions, but if that's your sort of thing, it's better to go in a group (I saw a couple of businessmen get the table treatment while I was leaving) or perhaps at dinner, when it is likely busier.
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