IPOT

IPOT is such a cute restaurant. Loved their variety of options in their menu. The soups were amazing and the chicken, spam, ramen were phenomenal. Loved the lamb skewers food and the fried chicken. You have a time limit for all you can eat and we also got a holiday season discount of $13. One of the better hot spots places in this neighborhood!

【Hygiene】 The sanitary conditions are very poor. You can look at the pictures I posted. As soon as I sat down, I saw the unidentified paste dried on the edge of the baking pan. It should be the sauce on the table, which was not cleaned up. The floor of the entire restaurant is sticky feeling, slippery when walking. 【Ingredients】There are not many food options and many of them are sold out (should not be at all ) when we came before 6 o'clock in the afternoon. The quality of beef is ok. Pork is not good. In addition, you can only order one order in fifteen minutes, fifteen items at a time, and the meal time is two hours. The portion of each dish is extremely small. Two shrimps per order. When the time is approaching, they will remind you to leave. 【Service】The two waiters who came at the beginning were really rude. They had a wifi named ipot-guest, and customers should place orders by scanning the QR code. I asked him for the wifi password because the signal in the store was not good. The waiter impatiently said "we don't have" and walked away, confusing. Ask the other one, turn his head to look at us, and walk away😀. 【Parking】Nowhere to park. 【Soup base】General. 【Price】Friday night $37.50 per person before tax.

My group of 9 came around 7pm and sat down but it took awhile before we got any service. We were all pretty cramped in a small booth. The servers didn't really explain things well so we were pretty confused at the beginning. The hot pot was good but the kbbq was just ok. Not a lot of marinated meats. Maybe that's why there's a sauce bar but I like my bbq meats marinated.

So what can I say about IPOT. It was different for me having to cook your own food. I enjoyed the experience, the food was good, the sauce bar had a lot of different sauces that I had no clue about and the restaurant it self was very clean. If you are with a BIG CROWD, be ready to use one phone to order everyone food and they do not separate the check. Oh if there is food left over you will have to pay an extra $20 wasting food fee person. Parking was ok just be ready to walk and make sure you make reservations. We did not have one but they were nice enough to accommodate us. I would have given them five stars but they do not explain mush to people who have never been there.

The Food Hot pot restaurants are abundant in the area, but few are unique. IPOT seems to have brought a slight twist to create a different experience. IPOT has 3 pot types, the BBQ Pot, the Regular Pot, and the Chafing (split) Pot. My friend and I got the half grill, half soup BBQ pot, and the Regular Pot. We choose Salty Pork Bone w/ Winter Melon and Chinese Herb respectively for the soup base. For the meat, lamb and beef was the popular choice with a bit of pork. I got their BiangBiang Noodle because it seemed to be a must order. We also got a lot of miscellaneous selections from their menu along with some small dishes. The meat was very good, as well as the other ingredients, with good variety. They also have quite the selection for their sauce bar. I would return to this again if I get another hot pot craving. The Miscellaneous Despite the restaurant being quite big with a good amount of seating, there are long waits at peak hour. But the good thing is they do have a Yelp waitlist, so you can join the line via mobile. The service can slow down during peak hour with limited staff, but the service and staff was not bad. A good variety of selection on their menu for soup, ingredients, appetizers, drinks, and so on. It is not the most expensive hot pot restaurant, but is also not the cheapest. But with the quality and selection, it is a good place to experience.

Pretty solid spot for hotpot. You can also ask for a grill in addition to the hotpot. The meat select was good and the quality was definitely very worth it for the price (~$33.95) We had the pork bone soup and the spicy Sichuan soup. I really liked the pork bone soup but the spicy sichuan soup could be overpowering for some people (still went pretty well with the lamb though) On top of that, the service was amazing. All the staff were very attentive.

I think I’ve been spoiled with other hotpot spots in other regions I’ve lived or visited so I pot was good but not great. We didn’t like the small amount you can order and have to wait 15 mins to order more policy. Overall the broth was good I got Chinese herbal and my bf Tomyum. They both had good flavor. Mine was lacking spice so i added hot chili oil and some salt to jazz it up. Sauce bar had most of everything you’re looking for. Got seated at a timely manner. Service was overall decent. The reason why we weren’t super impressed was the selection to order was decent but not great. They dont offer bowls to put the broth/ soup in so we transfer everything in our hotpot to a plate and dip it. If you want to sip on soup it’s really hard to without risk of burning yourself straight from the hotpot. The meats were fine but didn’t taste super fresh. The ice cream that was served at the end was good. They did give us some sort of discount. Without us complaining maybe because they saw we were underwhelmed so I appreciate that.