Tokyo Stop & Teriyaki Mount Vernon

First time here, it was a tough go, easily should be 5 star restaurant. The food was amazing, tons of flavor and the enjoyment of grilling it yourself. The service was insanely slow, but it seems to be another business struggling to find employees. There was one employee for the entire front end of the store. She was working as the hostess, the server, the to go orders and the cashier. She was extremely nice an apologized repeatedly but sadly with only one person doing everything besides cooking the food, that means your going to have wait a long time for everything, drinks, food, refills and payment. I hope they can get the situation solved because the food is top notch but the speed of the service is something I don't think I want to experience again.

Fabulous food, absolutely delicious! My wife and I went to a Korean BBQ in the Philippines in 2019 and it was amazing. That's what gave me the idea to go here when I came across it one day while I was working. Initially we were going to go about 2 weeks ago but turned out they were doing a remodel. Finally they opened and the wife was so excited to go.  Some might say it was a little on the pricey side but things like this are treats plus we got fillet mignon, marinated rib eye and shaved brisket to start. I don't think it was too bad considering what we got. From what i understand this is a family owned business. The staff was VERY attentive to the customers. They were always checking on us. They made sure that our grill was changed promptly if it started getting food burnt on it as we cooked. The waiter came  and apologized for it taking so long to get our food. I didn't think we had been waiting that long but he offered us each a complementary soda. We accepted. Right behind him a waitress apologized for the long wait for the food again and gave us an appetizer plate of 10 Gyoza with sauce on the house for the wait. YUUUM. 3 minutes after that, our food arrived. I think we waited maybe 20 minutes for our main food. I've seen well known fast food chains take longer. All in all excellent food, excellent service, courteous staff. I told the waiter that it was only missing one thing. He said what's that. I said, in the Philippines they had a cheese ring on the bbq. I said it would be perfect with the cheese ring full of melted cheese. He said he was trying to get that. This restaurantis a nice treat in a nice environment.