Hibachi Restaurant Open for Business in the 'Boro

The newly opened Sakura is hoping to bring a variety of tastes and experiences to the South Attleboro area with its varied menu and hibachi chefs.

“This restaurant has more combinations and more variety than other restaurants,” Manager Jaimie Thang said.

The restaurant will offer both Japanese and Chinese cuisine, as well as a sushi bar. Its specialty may be its hibachi chefs, where the patrons are seated around the grill and are able to watch the chef cook their meal right in front of their eyes.

The hibachi chefs go out of there way to entertain while preparing the meal. They’re able to showcase their skills by sending their spatulas and tongs flipping through the air in a culinary juggling act. They add pyrotechnics to the act by lighting trails of oil, or using the oil to ignite bursts of flames inside a stack of onions, a trick known as the volcano, that not only looks impressive, but serves to cook those onions as part of the vegetable side dish as well.

Thang and co-owner, and chef, Billy Liu are both veterans of the restaurant world, with Thang having 14 years experience and Liu having worked at a variety of other restaurants in the Quincy area before electing to start his own.

Liu became friends with some of his coworkers at other restaurants and they worked together to start their own restaurant. They chose Attleboro because they had been looking online for a location and eventually saw the property at 809 Washington St. for sale and decided buy it. It did, however, take five months of renovations before it was ready for its recent grand opening.

Thang and Liu are hoping that customers will appreciate the variety of food they offer, as well as the unique experience of the hibachi grill.

“We want people to know a little more about Hibachi,” Liu said.

“We try to suit whatever the customer requests,” Thang said.

In addition to the hibachi grill, the restaurant offers more traditional dinning area as well as a full bar, which Thang says will offer the popular game Keno soon. Sakura is also available for take-out and delivery.

There's a free dessert for any customer on their birthday, so long as they can show it is, in fact, their birthday. Additionally, as part of its grand opening special, the owners would like to offer a discount of 15 percent off to customers for the next three months if they print out and show them this article.

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