Wabi-Sabi means always improving or getting better - each visit is better than the last! The decor is Japanese-inspired: elegant simplicity featuring a premium-stocked black granite cocktail bar, sushi bar, and hibachi tables separated by etched glass panels with Asian themes.

Begin your experience with an expertly concocted libation from Andy, the most accommodating manager and bartender extraordinaire. Grey Goose Cosmos top the list of local favorites, but try the Black Belt (premium cold sake and kahlua). The bar features Japanese vodka, sakes, and a fabulous plum wine called Choya, which is a must-try. If you’re a beer drinker, you can satisfy your thirst from a selection of Asian and imported beers. Don’t forget to order a bowl of edamame, delightfully crunchy, lightly salted soy beans in a pod, which go GREAT with cocktails.

My favorites are from the appetizing sushi bar:
Sweetheart Roll (raw tuna on the outside surrounding rice and shaped in a heart).
Dancing Dragon (teriyaki-flavored eel surrounding avocado, rice, and caviar). I am personally responsible for transforming several non-eel lovers to eel fanatics with this particular sushi.
My husband loves the crunchySpider Roll (tempura-fried soft shell crab wrapped sushi-style around rice filling).
"Wabi-Sabi Roll" (salmon, avocado and crab surrounded with spicy tuna on the outside, sprinkled with caviar)
Tuna Lovers (tuna and avocado inside with spicy tuna outside)
Samurai (four different kinds of caviar on outside)

Japanese dinners from the hibachi menu can be prepared tableside by special hibachi chefs or can be served at the bar without all the fanfare. Along with your main course, you will receive vegetables, a complimentary shrimp, and fried rice, all cooked in front of you with a lot of ooohs and aahhhs. Try your luck at catching a flying shrimp offered by your plucky hibachi chef. You can choose from chicken, shrimp, red snapper, salmon, calamari, strip steak, scallops, lobster tail, Chilean sea bass, filet mignon, or a combination of the above. Dinners are served with miso soup, salad, and a delightful mochi ice cream drizzled with chocolate sauce that kids will LOVE.

Try the specialty dinners;
Wabi Sabi Special (for two) $67.95 Very romantic, with lobster tail, filet, shrimp, scallop, and a special sushi appetizer
Kobe (not Bryant)-$29 Filet, shrimp, scallops, and shrimp dumpling appetizer
Kyoto (my hubbie insists on calling this Coyote dinner) 27.50 NY strip steak, shrimp, chicken, and California roll appetizer
Tokyo Special-25.50 Red snapper, salmon, calamari, and shrimp dumpling appetizer As the name suggests, this establishment is always searching for ways to offer the "perfect" dining experience. When you go, take a seat at the bar, order a Cosmo, and ask for a cup of Andy’s "Special Peanuts" (not on the menu and not always available), red-skinned, seasoned, and deep fried to produce the most intense nut-like flavor ever. Look at the menu and make your choices. Wabi Sabi.