I admit that I was a little salty in my initial review. I mean, wouldn’t you be if you had to wait two hours only to have the host cross your name out and forget about you? Anyways, that incident aside, the food was exceptional and the concept of the bowl/grill is certainly unique. So while the broth isn’t as good as Little Sheep, it’s still really good especially if you factor in the value($ 27.99), the unique grill/hotpot and the plating and presentation of the dishes. They also have the best Chinese donuts w/condensed milk that I’ve ever had.
Oliver L.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 South San Francisco, CA
TL;DR Reviews! Pros: +All you can eat for $ 28 — 2 hour time limit +High variety of food/soup base to choose from +Half pot /half grill option! +Variety of sauce options from the sauce bar(sesame is my fav) +$ 1 milk tea! +Speedy service, constantly refill soup and clear dishes +Hot dim sum served, as well as other cooked foods Cons: –VERY long wait anytime after 6PM on the weekends –Booths can only do the half pot /half grill option. Bring a party of 4 – 5. –Wait can be even longer if you request the booth -$ 20 charge if you waste an «excessive» amount of food –No AYCE with alcohol.(Still don’t have alcohol license) –Option to bring alcohol from the grocery store, but they now charge a $ 2 fee per person to do it. Tips: Come early(5−6PM) if you don’t want to deal with a 1+ hour wait Booths can only serve the half pot /half grill option; plan your party accordingly
Jennifer L.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 San Francisco, CA
My new favorite hot pot spot! I love me some good hot pot — it should honestly be its own food group. Overall, IPOTS won me over with their stellar décor, service and food! First time I came here was actually because The Pots of Judah was completely packed and had over an hour wait at 6PM! My brother did a quick search and found IPOTS — gave them a call and they told us there was no wait for a large party of 8. Décor — love, love the large circular dining tables they have upstairs for big parties. It’s great to be able to see everyone you’re with unlike other hot pot spots that put you in long narrow tables where to can’t interact with anyone on the other end. Also came here with a smaller group a few weeks later, and the individual pots in the booth seats are awesome as well! For those worried about sharing a pot, a booth table of four can each get their own soup. Overall, their set up rocks. Service — honestly, every waiter and waitress there is amazing! They’re patient, attentive, and super helpful. Crazy, right? They deserve five stars for their service alone. Shout out to their awesome team! Food — PSA: I’m a pescotarian, so I can really only comment on their seafood and veggie dishes. Let’s just make it known that everything was fresh and delicious. For soup choice, I always opt for the spicy pot, which has a nice kick to it. Be careful when ordering this one because soaking the veggies in here can be a little extra extraaa spicy. Fish paste, spicy fish fillets, and the shrimp are my fav seafood dishes! You can always judge how fresh the seafood is based on the shrimp quality, and theirs is delish. IPOTS, you’re doing great work! Other favs are the Biang Biang noodles(handmade), green onion pancake(surprisingly delicious!), wintermelon, fried taro, and fried bean curd. I don’t know if you can tell, but I’m a fan. Easily, 5 stars!
M C.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 San Francisco, CA
Very over-rated location and doubt would be coming back.
Lisa H.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 San Leandro, CA
–Wait can be long, so come early(before 6pm or so) –AYCE for $ 28. –Great selection of different types of meats. –Great selection of different soup base. –Have their own sauce bar where you can make your own customized dipping sauce. –Even have hot side dishes that are already cooked. –Have cheap $ 1 milk tea(quite sweet though). –Can either have your own pot or shared(if sitting in the middle booths). –They do charge a fee if you have a lot of uneaten food left over. –One of the better hot pot spot in the city.
Jenny E.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 San Francisco, CA
The line on Saturday night was crazy long, we weren’t happy when our table was given away either –_– but I won’t even go there… I could tell the waiters were trying their best and they seemed to have a good attitude but this place really really needs more workers! Anyways, despite the service… the food is actually pretty good! We tried the special spicy and the pork bone broth and neither were particularly special but I was happy with the selection of food. The meats were good and surprisingly the cooked dishes were tasty! The BBQ spare ribs were great, the fried buns were fried perfectly and a great dessert, the Shanghai buns were also decent but I probably wouldn’t order that again. The ½ bbq ½ hot pot was kinda fun but it took so long for the BBQ to cook… I’d rather go to an actual KBBQ place for that. For all you can eat, I liked this place it, but I don’t think the wait is really worth it, come early or later not at 7:30. It was about $ 60 for 2 people(not including tip). When paying with card the waiter said we’d get 5% off if we paid in cash… Too bad I didn’t have any.
Donna D.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Fremont, CA
GAH! Wish this wasn’t so far from me. Coming in I knew the BBQ portion was going to be decent because it was going to be hard to change the grill. Anyway… The options were great! I love everything and the quality of the meat was good. I enjoyed their homemade fish balls. The fillings were SOSOGOOD! Their broth. We got the spicy one. It was a good spice but I didn’t like the broth itself because it was soooo thick. I wish I got the bone marrow one :( The marinated spicy beef on the grill was delicious. Omg. I really enjoyed everything here! I just regret getting that broth or I could’ve enjoyed the hot pot more. And of course their deep fried bun with condensed milk topped off the meal!
Coco L.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 San Francisco, CA
My friends and I were craving some hot pot for a rainy night and found this place on Unilocal.Good ratings and all you can eat… so why not? Got here at like 8:30pm and didn’t get seated til 9pm. Not too bad of a wait. Interesting that they have a waiting area with complimentary candies and water. The restaurant has two floors for dining and is furnished nicely with leather seats and tables that have built in induction stove tops. Parking — it might be tough… it’s mostly residential and some metered parking but since the street is pretty busy, it may take a few circles around the block. Service — great! I didn’t catch his name but our server was really nice and even explained the menu to us since it was our first time here. Love that they bring the food out quick and they refill the broth without me even having to ask! Food — I was in loveee! I got my own individual pot and ordered the spicy miso broth. It’s great that they have a sauce bar where you can mix your sauce to your liking. They also give out complimentary ice cream at the end of your meal! I love ice cream but free ice cream? Even better! Highlights — 1. Wagyu beef and lamb — soooo fresh! Love how the lamb doesn’t have that strong lamb aftertaste. 2. Vegetables — very fresh and crisp! 3. Deep fried steamed bun — heaven! Condensed milk dipping sauce adds a nice touch. Definitely will be back!
Michael K.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 Los Angeles, CA
This place is OG. A very ambitious restaurant(that actually pulls it off), they have hot pot and BBQ that can be brought to each table, as well as a larger than usual menu of hot food/dim sum. Large/upstairs seating available for groups, which is nice compared to some shoebox sized competitors. Great place for a family affair. The menu is expansive for both the hot food, choice of broth, and meat. Service is excellent, unlike many similar establishments… I’m happy to let you know that all servers know not one, not two, but three languages: English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. Servers are enthusiastic, attentive, and knowledgeable, unusual traits for this area of food… AYCE is a quality option at a quality price with quality meat and vegetables. Place is nice and clean too. Self-serve sauce station is always a big plus for hot pot. Drink options include the 99 cent milk tea and some delicious fresh-squeezed fruit juices. To prove I’m not a shill, I will point out the wait seems like it can be atrocious and the parking is certainly unpleasant. Regardless, don’t listen to the naysayers on this place. If you are in San Francisco and want authentic Chinese food, this is a worthy establishment, combining modern touches to a traditional Chinese hot pot/BBQ experience.
Lushi Z.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 San Jose, CA
Waited about an hour to be seated on New Years Eve. Wouldn’t have been such a big deal if they didn’t have empty tables upstairs. We were a party of 7 and there was an empty table upstairs that would fit us but when we asked the server why she’s not seating that table, she just points to a table and tells us that we will have that table once that party finished eating. So we just stood in the waiting area waiting desperately for that party to get up. The food was really nothing special. They give you a menu for you to check off what you want. We ordered several rounds that night. There’s also a separate sauce bar for you to build your own sauce. The meat was okay. All the meats came on a heavy plate with about 5 ounces of meat on it. They allow you to have two soups per pot. My table had two pots so we had four soups. The soup was pretty bland and watered down. Not much flavor. The best thing I had that night was their fried man tou with condensed milk. Pretty disappointing for an all you can eat hot pot place. Also, there were a few items that the server never brought to us, even when we ordered it again on the next round, we never saw the light of it. They should just cross out items on the menu if they’re out.
Cindy C.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Davis, CA
+ THEFOOD I loved how there’s so many options here. There’s 10+ different soup bases and you can choose to do just 1 hot pot, a yin yang hot pot, or a hot pot and bbq combo. Each person can have their own pot or you can share within your group. I also loved how they had a huge sauce bar so you can make whatever you want. I had the Japanese miso soup base and it was pretty good. It wasn’t as flavorful as I had liked but it was still tasty. There were a lot of different meats, veggies, noodles, beef balls, and seafood to choose from. It was nice that you could control the temperature of the stove yourself too. — THESERVICE The place is clearly understaffed. There’s 20+ tables in the restaurant and there’s maybe 4 servers around. There would be empty tables around the place and no one would seat us, despite the line building up. We waited over half an hour and there was only one group ahead of us in line. Since the servers are so busy maintaining every table, they often forget parts of our orders and we had to remind them multiple times.
Andrew C.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Los Angeles, CA
On a wintry 46 degree weather day in SF, what’s a better place to go to than a Chinese hot pot restaurant? Looking to stuff ourselves to the brim, my friends and I decided to go to IPOT for an ultimate all you can eat Chinese hot pot dinner. We were seated at a cozy semicircle black leather booth. I was at one of the edges of the semicircle and the seat was 3 feet away from the hot pot table, so I ended up having to sit at the edge of the seat with my arse at a corner in order to be close enough to the table to reach my chopsticks. When you’re at an all you can eat place, you really need to be comfortable, so this was a huge letdown for me. Trying to ignore the uncomfortable seating arrangement, we then all went to the sauce bar to fill little bowls with a myriad of different sauces. I was extremely excited to try everything. They had so many choices, I had to go back twice to get a good sampling. I tried the house special soy sauce, sweet soy sauce, Beijing sesame sauce, bean curd sauce, satay sauce, chili peppers, and green onions, ending up filling my whole section of the table with a huge array of little bowls of sauces. They let you choose whatever soup base you want and whatever meat and veggies granted that you finish all of it, lest you want a $ 20 charge. No biggie, this is typical for an all you can eat place. You use an erasable marker and mark all your heart desires on their. Once you finish your first round of food, you simply ask the waiter for another menu and another round of heart-warming consumption begins! We survived through 4 rounds of food, 2 bathroom breaks for each of us, and 2 hours of food before we were all satisfied, and satisfied we were. We started with a half miso and spicy miso soup base. We tried a bunch of items. The regular, unfilled regular fish balls were delicious; I don’t think I’ve tried any fish ball as good. Definitely get the shrimp paste to scoop in and boil your own shrimp chunks. Try the Biang Biang noodles – they are hand pulled, but you might have to ask the waiter a couple of times as they seemed to miss it on our first two orders. The taro vermicelli knots are a good neutralizer to all of the meats you eat. We had at least 4 plates each of wagyu and rib eye, so those meats were decidedly the best. Don’t forget to taste the soup once you’ve cooked your first order, as it will taste heavenly. The service was fast and they kept refilling the water. Make sure to get there around 5:30pm because by 6pm, people will start crowding and you don’t want to be stuck waiting for people to finish a two hour meal. Bottom Line: a bit pricey, $ 27.95 per person for all you can eat, get there by 5:30pm, and enjoy a delicious and extremely satisfying marathon of tons of food, sauces, and time well spent eating!
Auden W.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 San Francisco, CA
It’s been a while since I have been to an AYCE hotpot but I gotta say it made me miss it dearly. The only problem I really had was the price… $ 37 per person after tax and tips for lunch is kind of expensive for this tier of food. In terms of the food I really liked the new Zealand lamb, beef, house special lamb and beef, Already cooked beef short rib, tripe and the new Zealand mussels. Soup base… secret spicy and pork bone was delicious. I really like how there are 15 soup bases to select from, countless meat selections, dim sum/dumplings, variety of vegetable choices, selected seafood entrees and of course… dessert. I was also impressed with the presentation and the sauce selection as there were so many combinations of sauces you could have made. Also milk tea is only 99 cents… You also had a choice of having individual soup hotpots or a shared communal hotpot with 2 flavors… but you gotta stick with the communal one for that classic hotpot style… The waitresses were very attentive with bringing in constant food, refilling drinks and taking away excessive plates. They also provided us tips on how to cook the food better and made extra effort to make sure we were all satisfied. Also don’t forget the cookies and cream ice cream at the end… There’s ALWAYS room for ice cream. For now… I shall loosen my belt… and zone out from food coma. Solid Hotpot Location! Bravo!
Kevin C.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Menlo Park, CA
Winter in SF(if there is such a thing =P) means on the hunt for new hotpot spots. A friend recommended trying this place out and I finally agreed since it’s completely out of the way for me commute wise, but sure glad I did, and actually have been here three times now. Each time I’ve been here, there’s at least a 20 minute wait. They do take reservations, but only for a party of 6 or more. There’s two«styles» of tables; one where you have your own little hotpot and one where it’s a shared hotpot that contains two types of broths. My personal favorite is the pork bone broth, and there is a spicy option as well, although I think they could have kicked it up another notch for spiciness. The option option is AYCE, either $ 27.95 for hotpot/grill or $ 37.95 with drinks. Meat menu consists of freshly cut lamb, wagyu beef, special wine/spicy lamb, rib eye, pork belly, and a lot more. Solid selection of assorted veggies, meat balls, hand made noodles, tofu, and their own sauce bar, which I guess is the norm these days. Even though it seems to be always packed, they take care of you pretty quickly. The meat portions are pretty small, so don’t be afraid to order double/triple orders. ;) Not a bad option for AYCE and the quality is top notch.
Elena N.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 San Francisco, CA
On Thursday, December 3rd, we stopped by IPOT for dinner. Our party of 4 got there at 8:10pm. We were seated a little after 9pm. They have two types of tables: large shared pot & individual pots. Some of us wanted to try the bbq, so I noted individual pots on the wait list. The menu lists two options: All you can eat($ 27.95) &AYCE with drinks: beer, soda($ 37.95). They don’t have their alcohol license yet, so it’s really only AYCE.(Don’t be fooled by the alcohol display up front.) Our server did say there’s a store close by, so it’s still easy to BYOB if you didn’t bring any drinks. *Pot type: Bbq pot, Regular pot, Chafing pot *Soup base(15 types): Secret spicy, Pork bone, Parsley with tofu & preserved egg, House made tomato, Special curry, Coconut pork bone, Miso, Spicy miso, Thai tom yum, Salty pork bone with winter melon, Cilantro with fish, Chinese herb, Seafood, Pickled cabbage with pork, Beijing style clear The bbq is half hot pot/half bbq, the regular is a personal hot pot and the chafing is a large shared hot pot. I got the bbq with Chinese herb. I normally like adding mala to make it spicy, but they only had roasted red peppers, so I added those for a little kick. *Sauce bar: Raw egg, Cilantro, Green onion, Peanut butter, Mashed garlic, Beijing sesame sauce, Crushed peanut, Sesame seeds, House made sweet soy sauce, House made spicy soy sauce, Sweet garlic, Celery, KBBQ sauce, Satay sauce, Jalapenos, Leek flower sauce, Roasted red peppers, White bean curd sauce, Soy sauce, Roasted bean curd sauce The only thing I found lacking was the hot sauces. They just had sriracha, roasted red peppers and jalapenos. I ended up using the spicy miso, garlic, cilantro, green onions, satay, roasted red peppers and an egg yolk. Unfortunately they ran out of jalapenos. *Meat: New zealand lamb, American wagyu beef, Beef rib eye, Pork belly, Spam, Chicken tender, Red wine lamb, Red wine beef, House special spicy lamb, House special spicy beef, Beef tripe, Beef tongue, Quail eggs, Kurobuta pork, Goose intestine, Kurobuta pork belly, Beef short rib The meat dishes are kind of small so I’d double up and order 2 of each. Note the beef short ribs are cooked and the goose intestine is limited to one per table. The meat quality was okay. I liked the rib eye, tripe and tongue the best. *Seafood: House made shrimp paste, House made fish paste, Special spicy fish fillet, Rod cod fish fillet, New zealand mussel, Fresh squid, Imitation crab stick, Taro vermicelli knots, Prawns *Tofu: Frozen tofu, Fresh soft tofu, Bean curd sticks, Tofu puff, Bean curd knots, Fried bean curd, Gluten, Pork blood We only got the fish paste, prawns, bean curd and tofu puff. All were pretty standard. I ate most of the prawns as I love head on prawns. Who doesn’t love yummy head juices?! *Meat ball: Fish ball with pork filling, Beef patty balls with pork fillings, Pork and Chicken patty balls with pork fillings, Imitation shrimp balls with pork and shrimp, Fish ball with roe, Fried fish balls, Fish balls, Cuttlefish balls, Beef balls, Fish balls with chinese style sausage, Shrimp balls, Fish dumpling with pork and shrimp fillings, Fish dumpling with pork filling xo hot sauce, Fried fish balls with pork fillings, Pork balls, Fish tofu, Fish balls with cheese filling, Mini sausage I love fish balls with roe and they were rather disappointing. The roe tasted frozen and shriveled. *Vegetables: Napa cabbage, Spinach, A choy, Tong ho, Sugar pea sprouts, Watercress, Lettuce, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Sliced lotus roots, Sliced white turnip, Black fungus, Winter melon, House made pickled cabbage, Carrot, Sliced fried taro, Fried sweet potato, Potato, Sweet corn, Seaweed knots, Chinese yam, Pumpkin, Baby bok choy, Cucumber, Eggplant, Bean sprouts, Shiitake mushroom, Enoki mushroom I was happy they had pea sprouts as I adore them. Spinach and enoki mushrooms are always a must for me. I love veggies! *Noodle: Flat potato noodle, Vermicelli, Instant noodle, Udon, Ramen, Rice cake, Chinese donut *Hand made dim sum: Spring roll, Chives pancake, Pot sticker, Fried crab rangoon, Beijing sesame paste pancake, Beef pancake, Shaved noodle, Veggie and pork dumpling, Biangbiang noodle, West lake lamb dumpling, Fried bun with condensed milk, Green onion pancake, Pumpkin pancake, Xiaolongbao, Lamb pancake, Beef and carrot steamed dumpling Everyone seemed to enjoy the fried bun with condensed milk. Note there’s a $ 20 charge for excessive waste of food and a 90 min time limit per person. They don’t seem to enforce the limit if it’s not busy as we were there for a good two hours. I like the concept, but IPOT needs to work out the kinks. There were items missing with every order and we were told some dishes were the wrong items. Since when does pork look like wagyu?! Regardless, I adore hot pot and would love to give IPOT another shot.
Christopher L.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Markham, Canada
First of all, this place is all you can eat(ayce) and that’s so far to find here in the bay area. And it has a huge selection of beef and lambs, like 4 types of beef and 4 types of lamb which is huge for us because we love meat. Besides that they have a huge selection of vegetables and balls, just great selection. And it’s $ 28 unless it’s a weekday and it’s lunch, then it’s $ 23. It was great how we all had our own pots(there were 3 of us) and you’re allowed to split the pot and put whatever soup base you want. The sauce bar is on point as well, they have a wide variety of sauces and condiments that one can mix together, I like how they have the raw egg and ginger too. The quality was decent as well even though it was all you can eat. Excellent service, they were always ready to help us out and offer water for the pots and water for our drinks. They were really polite, were very approachable and always asked if we needed something. I’d definitely go back in the future
Steven V.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Davis, CA
Hot pot lovers rejoice! IPOT is AYCE dinner good for groups of 4 – 6. With its huge variety of food items, club/house music, and new décor it is the hip new hot pot place to be. First: come before 6 — otherwise the tables may be full and you will have to wait a while. Once you are seated, you have the choice of trying two different pots or a half pot half grill. The menu has probably close to 100 different items– over 10 different types of soups, marinated meats. vegetables, noodles and even dim sum! You are given a dry erase marker and they bring out your orders as you go. There is a catch though– you are only given 90 minutes to eat to your hearts content. It is quite a fun experience as they have afternoon tea racks and you see them rack it with glorious red meat(and a few seafood items for my friends). The also have a dipping sauce bar where you can customize your sauce! Food highlights: marbled rib eye, red wine beef, and biang biang noodles on a bamboo loom. I also really liked the milk pudding at the end– very refreshing. [they also ran out of the pudding by 8ish so it is quite popular. The service is good, but the waiters don’t always bring what you order. It also would’ve been nice if we could tried different broths or switched to the grill at one point. The owner is nice though and has done a great job, I want to come back and try more items and drinks!
Eva O.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 San Francisco, CA
This is my new fav go to hot pot spot!(Tip: be aware there is a wait during dinner time but it is so worth the wait!) I came here for dinner and the staff was so friendly and efficient. Usually hot pot places either have staff who come once and you never see them again or those who actually care to be attentive. Joanne and Jing are amazing! From start to finish, they made my dining experience great. They gave awesome recommendations since it was my first time there and their service was was inspired me to write this review. Ipot has the cutest set up for your plates and everyone gets their own individual pot with a grill side. You just need to make sure to tell your server that. A few choices that stood out to me is their: — Biangbiang noodle(it’s chewy like udon and thick like fat noodles) — Korean short ribs(comes bbq for you already) — Pork belly, lamb, rib eye and wagyu beef is thinly sliced — They have sweet yellow corn! — Their shrimp and mussels are huge, for seafood lovers — Fried crab Rangoon(lightly fried and not too overwhelming when you bite into it) — Herbal tea is like grass jelly juice, it’s super refreshing — Milk pudding that they make themselves, very silky — Create your own sauce bar! All you can eat for ~$ 27 and if you love hot pot, this place is a must try!
Edna C.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 San Francisco, CA
My feelings about iPot are similar to that of iTea – initially I had discounted it as the mediocre new kid on the block that would soon be taken over by another business before Apple had the chance to crack down the quasi-copyrighted iFood name. But just as iTea had turned out to be my milk tea staple, iPot turned out to be my hot pot staple. iApprove. ~$ 35 seems pricey for dinner, but quite a good deal considering the AYCE, decent quality, and large selection of hot pot ingredients as well as other side dishes(not to mention the fact that it’s SF where $ 12 sandos are a norm) If there’s anything you take away from reading this review, here are my most emphatic tips: 1) Do not order milk tea! $ 1 milk tea seems very tempting especially when you’re waiting for hot pot with your AYCE appetite, but you will definitely want every last cubic inch of your stomach space for the food 2) Come in a large group: that way you could try more broths, hot pot ingredients, and side dishes(they have dim sum, and it’s not frozen imported har gow/siu mai! The menu claims it to be hand-made, and they even have atypical choices like northern lamb dumpling o. O) 3) Get the fried mantou with condensed milk – heavenly fluffy mantou with an outer layer of golden crispy perfection. It’s actually my favorite and would be my primary reason for returning to iPot(more so than for the hot pot), especially since this is fairly difficult to find at Chinese restaurants. Other noms: — Green onion pancakes, pork dumplings, and lamb dumplings were decent. And yes, dumplings are cooked. This gets confusing when everything else delivered to your table is raw hot pot ingredients — XLB is not recommended because it’s small and the skin is so thin that the soup spews out en route from the steamer to your plate. — Pumpkin pancake sounds interesting(and is oh so basic during PSL season), but in my opinion the mochi-like filling is too thick and starchy — Cream cheese wonton rolls are tasty but very hot. Burned my tongue on this which is very unfortunate for hot pot night — Short ribs are quite delicious(yes these are cooked too) – similar to kalbi in a sweet honey marinade For the hot pot: — Whatever broth you choose doesn’t really matter, because the flavor is mainly determined by the dipping sauce anyways. Also, the soup base changes according to what ingredients you add to your pot. We got so many marinated fish fillet orders that our non-spicy soup became spicy — The fired taro is amazing! But I dipped it in peanut sauce(I thought it was pork) and it turned out very strange… — They offer a nice variety of Chinese vegetables, including winter melon, lotus root, A choy, and ong choy i.e. all the exotic odd vegetables you don’t see except in very Chinese restaurants Ambiance is hip with loud clubbing music and booth seating that looks like a lounge. There are nice modern touches like the rectangular plates and square bowls, and the little metal racks they use to make mini vertical plate towers look like the dainty display for high tea pastries and sandwiches. The eclectic details are minor, and overall it’s clean and comfy with friendly, efficient service. I came, IPOT, I devoured. (Okay that veni vidi vici wordplay doesn’t quite work in Unilocal review text, but that’s the TL;DR for the extremely satisfying iPot meal.)
Carol Y.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 San Francisco, CA
IPOT is awesome for the following reasons: 1. SAUCEBAR — THATSALLYOUNEEDTOKNOW. You can make your own dipping sauce from all the über goodness toppings they have. I went back three times to make my own concuction. PEANUTSAUCE? SWEETSOYSAUCE? YESPLEASE 2. Quality — the meats and veggies were very fresh and had nice marble and fat. My favorite was the Waygu, Enoki mushrooms, beef tripe and lamb. The marinated spicy lamb had a nice kick too. 3. You can share or have your own POT — grill, hotpot or combo. LOVETHEIDEA! Why didnt i think of that? no double dipping and you can have your own broth. 4. Service — Friendly, quick and efficient. There was a slight language barrier but the servers were very patient and willing to listen to your questions and needs. 5. CLEAN and SPACIOUS. Love the décor. 6. Owner was super nice and i saw him making his own watermelon juice behind the kitchen, 7. 99 cents MILKTEA — GETTHEMILKTEA! Cheaper and better quality than Quickly! Ill be back again! thanks for a great meal. btw — 27.99 per person and they dont have their liquor license yet.