Went here with a couple of business associates for dinner. \n\nWhile the wait staff was 18ish, flirty, and gorgeous, the food service was very slow. On a Monday night with place about 25% full, it took over thirty minutes for three burgers to arrive.\n\nI ordered the Kobe beef burger. It's $40 - for just a burger. If I'm paying that much for a burger, I want it RARE!! I want to taste what I'm paying for: Kobe beef.\n\nWhen ordering I asked for Rare. The response: \"I'm sorry sir, we serve them all the same way.\" \n\nAh, good! I thought. A proprietor who insists the burgers are cooked properly. I assumed it would be rare as that is universally recognized by most any foodie as most delicious.\n\nWhat she didn't say was \"all the same way\" meant EVERYTHING IS WELL DONE!!!  JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!\n\nWhat a crying shame. To take delicious Kobe beef, grind it for a burger and cook it until it's a dried out hockey puck.\n\nKobe Beef is bred for the FAT! The beef are massaged by hand and fed beer daily to increase the FAT. When the beef is cooked, the reason it tastes so good is because of the marbled FAT.\n\nCooking Kobe beef well done melts all the fat, which makes it taste like supermarket chuck. There is no difference. This is a crime and I am dismayed - to put it mildly.\n\nFor a well done burger, it was passable, but I hate well done. I don't know if it's a Canadian thing. The Canadian we were with flipped when I said I liked rare - going on about e. coli bacteria risk. \n\nEscherichia coli (e. coli) is a fancy word for shit. In mass beef processing plants which make ground beef by the ton, it occasionally happens that a (filled) cow intestine gets sucked in the machine and shit gets all over meat - e. coli galore.\n\nBut - if it's really Kobe beef, that means it's ground in the restaurant kitchen from Kobe beef steak. \n\nThat means there is little chance of cow shit getting in the mix.\n\nFor $40 and Kobe beef, I damn well expect a restaurant to be confident cow shit won't get in their meat and can cook it to order - rather than playing it safe and sterilizing my burger.\n\nFucktards.