Crazy Fire Mongolian Grill

This place is absolutely disgusting. We were greeted by a man sweating profusely (soaked through his shirt and hair dripping) and sat next to several The buffet counters were greasy and the entire restaurant was filthy.
That said, I enjoyed my meal once I got over the dirt covered bowls.

I love that this is an all you can eat place even though I hardly ever eat that much. I love coming here when I am in town visiting family. The Mongolian grills in my area do not offer an all you can eat option which I find ridiculous.
The food is good it’s always hot the employees at the grill are very helpful. I agree the cleanliness is hit and miss but overall this is a great option to experiment with flavor combinations. Here in my local area since you only get one or two bowls if you make it and it sucks you are stuck eating it. Not much opportunity to figure out what else you like.
Wish they would franchise north in DC.

Not sure why I even go here. The décor is lousy, the atmosphere is wanting, and it’s always empty. And while many places suffer from the same failings, this place goes that extra mile to bother me. Why? It’s not Mongolian in the least.
When I was in Ulaanbaatar, not once did I eat crab meat, pepperoni, shrimp, cilantro, or just about anything else that this place offers. We had lamb and dumplings, and drank vodka. This is a Japanese-​style stir fry joint at best. The fact that it even carries the name Mongolia drives me crazy.
The thing that really gets me, though, is that Mongolian food is really great, but restaurants like these morph Asian cuisine into one thus stripping that element of cultural identity from that nation. This happens a lot (Chinese buffets), but this is particularly blatant in my opinion. The same thing happens with Korea. Far too many people attribute Chinese food or Japanese food to Korean food which, as I mentioned, steals the identify of that country. Same goes for Laotian, Thai and Cambodian.
I don’t wish to tarnish this particular restaurant with issues that should be directed to corporate, but it is contributing to something that is damaging as a whole.
I will say, however, that the server was nice. Good enough?

My only regret with giving this place 1 star is that I couldn’t give it 0 stars.
It is, without a doubt, one of the worst eating experiences I’ve ever had in my life. And the owners should be ashamed of themselves for listing it as a «Mongolian Grill». (Somewhere Gengis Khan is rolling in his grave.)
I first began eating Mongolian BBQ as a military brat at the Officer’s Clubs on some of the bases where my father was stationed.
On those occasions and at every other Mongolian BBQ I’ve eaten at since, the basic expectation that you have when you enter one of these places is that you get to select fresh vegetables and a choice of quality meats including, beef, chicken, pork and lamb. (The meat is supposed to be sliced while frozen into shavings.)
You choose veggies, meats and then sauces that are placed in wooden bowls and then cooked on a flat stir fry grill as the cooks work the contents from your bowl across it until they’re done, then served fresh and piping hot.
It’s not complicated and yet, when you go to a great Mongolian place, it’s a simple formula that works and you leave feeling like you just not only got yourself a really good meal, you also got a great deal because generally they’re pretty affordable.
Well, that’s not quite the way things work at Crazy Fire Mongolian Grill. The meat was thawed out, ground and looked like it had been sitting out for hours. And the vegetables all appeared to come from cans.
The food was absolutely disgusting and the ambiance was similar to that you’d experience at a bus station — only bus stations are much more inviting.
I’m actually surprised that droves of people haven’t gotten grossly ill here and that the health department hasn’t shut it down.
To sum up my opinion about this place:
NEVER.
EVER.
GO.
THERE.
EVER.
It’s THAT bad. You’ve been warned.
(Just thinking about it again made me throw up a little in my mouth just now.)
Does that make it crystal clear how disgusting this place is?
Good.
You’re welcome.

Likes: friends like this place… cool giant round cooking «stove»?
Also liked the variety of ingredients.
Dislikes: 90 sanitation rating. Not horrible. It’s still an A, but boy would I like to see that higher when I walk in the door.
Quality of ingredients… my shrimp cooked up into tiny pieces that resembled canned. Frozen scallops became dots of tasteless something.
My biggest problem with this place is that I am so not the Asian cooking expert, so I have no clue what sauces I need, what veggies, etc. As an otherwise experienced cook, my instincts are telling me that you don’t put the sauce with the raw meats before cooking anyway. Here they have you putting a bunch of raw stuff into one bowl or two or three (you pay per bowl), they cook it all up and then you sit down and eat it.
It’s all very confusing, and the end result for me was I didn’t do so well. Next time I want Asian, I’ll opt to go somewhere where they’ll decide what tastes good, not me.

The more you go here the better it gets. I enjoy the way it is done. Fast and you can pick out what you want grilled by the cook. They have a great variety of meat, vegetables and spices. You can make it hot or not. They also have a full bar.
Be sure to ring the gong ! Be sure you take your fingers behind the Gong and prime it, then slowly mallet it for maximum effect.
Great for lunch or dinner, fast and good. I have been there for both. As I said each time gets better.