Is there anything better than the end of year Christmas lunch for seeing out the working year with a bang? After eleven and a half months of hard yakka and spending more time with your work mates that you sometimes do with family, it's just great to unwind and have some fun. When it was time to pick our lunch venue for our Christmas lunch, I decided to take a back seat from the recommendations game and let the team sort out our destination. I was really happy that the team had picked an old favourite to visit, a restaurant I hadn't visited in about five years.
Kabuki is one of those restaurants that's been a part of the Brisbane dining scene, with little fanfare, for as long as I can remember. It's such a part of the zeitgeist in Brisbane that it's kind of faded into the background, a place to go for special occasions. The thing I love most about Kabuki is its style of Japanese cooking called teppanyaki, which uses an iron griddle to cook the food. Typically the griddle becomes the centre of attention, with highly skilled teppanyaki chefs stealing the show with highly developed knife and cooking skills that need to be seen to be believed.
