KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot Reviews Summary

Category: Korean restaurant

Address: 300 NJ-18, East Brunswick, NJ 08816, USA

Phone: +17322102704

Rating: 4.3
based on 385 reviews.

Service

Pros:

  • "Service was pretty good, even though our waiter looked like he hated life."
  • "The service was continuously courteous and professional."
  • "The servers are very nice and attentive."
  • "Our server Raul was the nicest, sweetest, and most attentive server I’ve ever had."
  • "Staff was great.. They explained everything and brought out choices quickly..."
  • "The service is spectacular they tell you how to cook the foods and soups."
  • "The host, waiter, and staff delivering food were all amazing and very professional."

Cons:

  • "Not once did she come back to our table to check if everything was okay."
  • "Service is slow and hard to get attention."
  • "The manager talked to me like I was inconveniencing him."
  • "Our server was nice though but we had to ask for water ask to take away the plates and had to ask several times when our food was coming out."
  • "Service was very poor (Danny couldn’t be bothered to teach/show/inform) how the whole thing worked."
  • "The staff was a bunch of lazy college kids, that do their best to avoid serving."
  • "Our waiter didn’t come to check on our table, despite checking on the tables around us."

Ambiance

Pros:

  • "Nice ambiance, friendly staff, and the food was fresh and delicious."
  • "The lighting and the noise level were perfect, providing very pleasant ambiance."
  • "We went on a Friday and there was a DJ and we had a great time."
  • "Very relaxing atmosphere."
  • "The atmosphere was positive and the place looks awesome."
  • "The atmosphere was really great and I loved the cool lighting."
  • "The place was huge but didn't feel noisy."

Cons:

  • "Around 6pm the music got unbearably loud and was impossible to carry on a conversation."
  • "The vibe of the restaurant screamed clubbing to me."
  • "Atmosphere is a little chaotic, especially during busy hours and lighting inside is fairly dim."
  • "The atmosphere was meh. I'm not too happy to watch a bunch of half dressed 12 year old pop wannabes on their big video screen."
  • "Music was loud so it was hard to talk."
  • "The lighting is too dim to be able to discern if your food is done cooking when bbq-ing."
  • "Place is filthy and dark (no surprise there.)The “IPad” you’re supposed to use is absolutely disgusting."

Food

Pros:

  • "The price for all-you-can-eat is worth it."
  • "They have sauce and dessert stations that are in the center of the restaurant."
  • "Chicken items are great. Sauces are just amazing."
  • "The food is amazing, don’t get me wrong but I noticed the cut isn’t always the same."
  • "We loved the individual hotpot, and everyone got to choose their favorite broth."
  • "The ingredients are always fresh and high quality."
  • "Absolutely great choice of soup base, meats, and veggies."

Cons:

  • "The food he brought back was ½ cooked and not edible."
  • "The meat was bland, pretty much every kind."
  • "Some steaks are extra chewy and the spicy seafood is too much 'kimchi' spice flavor."
  • "The food was only mediocre. We have BBQ, the steaks were very chewy and seemed like all the marinate for the meat were the same."
  • "The quality of meat has declined since my initial visits. Now the food is extremely salty."
  • "All kinds of meat have a weird smell and taste that you would find in old, poorly stored meat."
  • "KOrean bbq meat were not marinade well. They were tasteless."

Cleanliness

Pros:

  • "We found the place to be clean and nicely modern."
  • "Once inside it is clean and all the employees were professional and pleasant."
  • "Korean food and hot pot in one place! This place is clean and the food is delicious."

Cons:

  • "One of the “clean” plates they put on our table had rice and some kind of sauce stuck on it dry."
  • "The bathrooms haven't always been the cleanest."
  • "This doesn't excuse the dirty floors, sauce buffet area or bathrooms."
  • "The floor should be cleaned more often or cleaned better. It feels very slick in a grimy way."
  • "Our table was greasy and not properly cleaned."
  • "The floors were still slippery."
  • "The place is not very clean, and I don’t expect it to be immaculate but I’ve been to the kpot locations in PA, and they are way better so I know they can improve."

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