Fujiyama Teppanyaki is a Japanese restaurant at 36 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, on the stretch of Taranaki Street that runs between Courtenay Place and the waterfront near Te Papa. It is one of a small number of teppanyaki venues operating in central Wellington.
### The teppanyaki format
The restaurant's defining feature is that food is prepared in front of guests on the teppan grill. Its own site describes the chef as having many years of experience in traditional Japanese cooking, and presents the meal as an entertainment experience as much as a dinner: the website carries dedicated sections for its cooking demonstration and its "catching games", where diners catch food tossed by the chef, alongside video of the flame work at the grill.
Beyond the grill service, Fujiyama offers dine-in and takeaway. The full menu is published on the site as a digital flipbook. The restaurant describes itself as family friendly with reasonably priced food.
### Bookings
Bookings are taken by phone on 04 801 8699 or 04 390 1172, and the site also runs a live chat for enquiries. No published opening hours, seating capacity or dedicated function space appear on the restaurant's website.
### MICE suitability
Teppanyaki is inherently a group format: guests are seated together around a shared grill and the meal is paced by the chef, which makes it well suited to incentive groups, small team dinners and delegate hospitality where the point is a shared experience rather than a quiet conversation. The interactive cooking demonstration gives an organiser a built-in activity, and the Taranaki Street position keeps it within walking distance of Courtenay Place accommodation, Te Papa and the waterfront event venues. Because no capacity, group menu or exclusive-use detail is published, organisers should ring the restaurant directly to confirm what a larger booking would involve. Other Wellington restaurants are listed for comparison.
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