HuHot Mongolian Grill

Always good service and food. The salad was not to my liking and I asked to have the egg drop soup instead and the waitress was very nice about it and accommodating. Calamari is my fave to put in my mixture of rice noodles and variety of sauces to mimic a pad thai. The mussels were a great addition to the buffet. Very tasty. One of the people I was with followed the sauce mixture for pad thai and it ended up tasting like lotion bc the board near the sauces said to put the green curry in too. Not a fan of curry at huhot. Stick to the hoisin or khans favorite is a good go to. If you’re feeling extra spicy, try the village sauce.

I’d give this place 100 stars if I could. Food is great and staff is awesome. Moved back to Michigan 3 or 4 years ago and have not been able to find a Mongolian bbq that compares. Finally back to Iowa for the first time and my wife and I made Hu Hots an immediate stop for lunch.

food is great but even after my FIRST Bowl of food they wouldnt let me take it home. i understand if it was my second or third but i had a family emergency so i had to go so from now on ill stick to ghengis grill these guys are complete dickheads worst service ever!

Food was really good and service was great. I always like these type of restaurants because you get choose your veggies and meat. Was very happy that they had bean sprouts and black beans on the bar. Every meal comes with soup or salad. Salads are very large. It is an all you can eat price — wish that they had a one bowl price. Everyone was happy with their food.

I was in town for business, and am always on the lookout for good Mongolian restaurants. This place was very good, they have a very good sauce selection and pretty fresh vegetables. I will be returning before I leave.

Came in on a Friday night, 630ish, place very understaffed, tables open and clean and still had to wait 10 minutes for them to clean another table. Meat line was not stocked, even after 20 minutes, floors dirty, and cooks dried out my food while cooking. You could tell staff is undertrained. No soup or salad was offered with meal either. Rice was cold.

I’m a sucker for anything endless so I find myself here once or twice a year and I always regret it after. The food and sauces are a hot mess and it seems like all the staff have been trained to discourage you from eating more then one serving. Their competitor Genghis Grill is just as bad which is unfortunate because those are the only two mongolian grill options in Cedar Rapids.

Love to eat here! You can eat as much as you want (like a buffet) and you get all your food made your way, because you do it yourself.
Great place to eat.
Also a fun experience for kids.

I love the food here. It’s a bit on the pricey side hence the ⁴⁄₅ but the service is great and the grill staff are awesome. I think the lunch staff rocks!

We have eaten at Genghis Grill multiple times and really enjoy the opportunity to put together a custom stir-​fry. Since we were near the HuHot we decided to give it a try.
I really don’t expect to make a point to return. The food was alright, but I too find that I enjoy the Genghis Grill set up better.
Ironically we must have been seated in the same booth as Kenneth. But now over a year later that booth is still saggy!
The frozen meat threw me. I’m sure it helps prevent food poisoning due to cross-​contamination or improper holding temperatures, but it seems like it would then take longer to cook.
Hated that I had to waste bowl space with the noodles, especially since I had to fish the tongs out of them. Thinking about the germs on the handles and now all over the noodles was enough to make me consider a starch-​less bowl.
Nice selection of veggies. I think that Genghis has more selection, but HuHut still had the basics.
Sauces. I know that they range from hot to mild as it goes left to right, but which sauce is in front of the other? Sometimes you can tell by looking, but a sign informing would be good. Also, without sampling, how do you know if you like the sauce? Again kudo’s to Genghis for their little tasting spoons. Also here you need 3 – 5 ladles full. On my second trip I put the sauce in first and was surprised how much sauce that is.
The show of cooking. Yes that big slab gets gross looking. I see them scraping it off, but what are you leaving behind? I don’t have a food allergy, but all I could think about was if I did, I wouldn’t eat there. The banging and flipping of the spats seemed designed to entertain, ok you can flip it and fling my food into the neighboring pile. I watched countless times as they pulled something back out of the food next to it. Also food cost must not be an issue, cause I saw lots of food hitting the floor. (Hey you’re losing all of my beef!)
Service was minimal as I would expect at a place where I’m plating up my my own food. Had to remind server of discount even after telling her at the beginning of the meal. We were there at 3pm on a Saturday, so it wasn’t overly busy.
So if you go, know what to expect.

Decided to give this place a try. I’ve eaten at similar places before, and this one didn’t disappoint. The food was excellent, service was outstanding, and the atmosphere was just right. The food was well cooked and tasted wonderful. We didn’t ever have to wait for refills and our used plates were promptly removed. They played current pop music and the sound level wasn’t intrusive. The cooking area is noisy, but that is expected. I’ll definitely come again

My wife and I dined at this restaurant last night. We have dined at the Genghis Grill a couple of blocks away on many occasions and we enjoyed GG. We decided to try Hu Hot because we were already at the mall for other reasons.
We were not happy.
First, it was loud. Music was playing to loudly to talk. I even had to ask the server to repeat herself a couple of times and she was standing beside me. The booth where were were seated needed to be replaced. It is hard to explain but the seats just kind of dropped low when you sat on them. Apparently the springs in the seat were pretty much shot.
Then came the food. First was the meat, and the beef was frozen solid. The amusing thing was that from the appearance of the meat, it was dropped and allowed to break into jagged pieces. The the noodle station… I don’t want my noodles in the same bowl as everything else. The vegetable station was next in line. Several of the vegetable selection were still frozen together in clump as if they put the veggies into the pans then store the pans in a freezer. Last but not least was the sauce station. At least three of the sauces had ice cubes floating in it. Yes, someone had to purposefully have put ice into the sauce which as you can imagine will dilute it and make it watery.
The food stations and the grill area were not exactly the cleanest places I have seen. When you watch the cooks with your food, you see the spatulas flying and chopping and food flying off the grill. The floor was actually wet around the grill. How they kept from slipping and falling, I will never know. I was not happy about standing there and waiting for 15 minutes for my food.
Overall the place was dirty, loud and the food and sauce selections were sadly lacking. Service was non-​existent. The serve, Stacia, was very slow. It took her ten minutes just to get us the check. It took 9 more minutes for her to come back and pick up the payment. The place was not busy. There were 9 tables and to cover those tables there were two hostesses, and three servers as well as what appeared to be a bartender.
Will I eat there again? Not as long as there is a Genghis Grill two blocks away and probably not even if there were no Genghis Grills.