Skills of the chef: amazing, atmosphere also good, and some of the food was good. The sauces in particular (which are made in the back kitchen and certainly that's where most of the cooking effort goes in. They also lend the most flavour to the food.
They were very accomodating of one of our number who is strictly gluten free.
However, the tofu steak I ordered was poorly prepared, it should be spongy and full of texture and it really wasn't cooked long enough. The other concern I had was of cross contamination with raw and cooked poultry and seafood. That is an absolute restaurant (and home cooking) no-no. Even in traditional teppanyaki care would be taken to use separate utensils for cooked and raw and that was not done. I didn't order fried rice but the girls I was with did and reported it tasted overwhelmingly of garlic.
so 3 stars. You can eat better in Whistler for less money.