This was the WORSE experience that we have EVER had at a restaurant in our ENTIRE lives!!! It started out that they said it would be a 30 minutes wait......well that turned into over an hour and a half, okay, next we sit at a table where there are two chefs that cook for you. We were seated first and our orders were taken even before the other table was seated......then we received our drinks (they charge you for EACH GLASS of soft drink that you drink )- (NO ICED TEA OF ANYTYPE - not a good thing in the South people!! :)) about 30 minutes + later we received our soup (it was yummy, or maybe we were just STARVED, lol) then we were HOPING to get our salad, WRONG - the other table that had just been seated got their soup & salad, and their chef came out and started preparing THEIR food, before we even had our salad, FINALLY, our salad comes out, maybe another 30 minutes, and now the chef is cooking their MAIN course, still, no chef for us and our waitress appears apologizing, saying that she is waiting another big table (SORRY NOT!!!, LOL) Anyway, in the meantime our teenage daughter who has health problems had to get her inhaler out due to the excessive heat that is coming off of the grill, I have to end up taking her back to our condo, bout 30 minutes away - one way, cancel her order and hope mine is ready when I get back. My husband has to get up and FIND somebody and "try and explain, the problems that we are having". And they assured us they would "find our chef", when in the meantime, the poor chef that had already cooked next to us, felt sorry for us and cooked our food, in the meantime, I came back in time to eat my food. Our "ADVENTURE" took us over 4 hours, yes 4 hours. We mentioned to them, that we felt this was in excess and they said sorry, when u wait 4 hours to eat, and might I add that our daughter-in-law was pregnant, we were ready to jump up and cook for ourselves, lol. Believe it or not, the food was very good, but the experience really left us with a bitter taste in our mouths. Oh yeah, we paid our bill in FULL!

Mikato's is great food, but I agree that the wait is long sometimes. Mikato's is my daughter's favorite restaurant, so we go there about once a month.

We get there early (5:30-6) to avoid the wait... but it still takes about an hour and a half to complete the meal... so if you're really hungry, you might consider another restaurant.

The food has always been top-notch at Mikato's... and the Hibachi Chefs are very entertaining, especially for children.

I agree 100% about the charge for refills. Restaurants make enough money off the first drink to cover 50 refills. It's really disappointing to get your check and see that you've been charged for 6 or 7 drinks with only 3 people eating!