Blue Sakura

Delicious AYCE hotpot and dimsum! Personal hotpot with many soup base options and all you can eat veggies, fish balls, tofu and noodles. You pay a la cart for sliced meats and seafood. We only ordered from what was included in AYCE since there are so many options to order for hotpot and all ingredients came out fresh. There are also plenty of dimsum options but they don't have some of your traditional items like chicken feet and spare ribs. Basically anything that can be frozen and steamed they have. My friends and i tried many items from the dimsum menu and my favs were the phoenix and lava bun! The salted egg yolk was hot and runny inside. Delicious!! Didn't care much for the shrimp tempura, shumai and sesame balls. You order everything off a tablet so you can easily order too much so be careful of that. We finished the meal with green tea ice cream. Self serve soda drinks and sauce bar included as well!

Really nice service. Everyone was accommodating.Soup and foods were tasty and fresh.Meats you have to buy separate but all the other sides are included in the all you can eat. They have appetizers and even dim-sum.Its the perfect amount of food when you put food orders in so you're not over eating.

Blue Sakura is a hotpot place where all the noodles, fish balls and veggies are AYCE but you pay by meat. They have a variety of AYCE dim sum. My friends and I went for lunch in between work. There were a few other tables taken and we were seated quickly and the waiter walked us through the ordering and sauce station. The inside of the restaurant is very nice but the sauce bar can get crowded easily. The sauce bar had some of the sauces switched (vinegar was where the soy sauce was) and some of the spoons were dirty. The unlimited drink machine was broken when we were there.First off, it took about 35 minutes for our RAW FOOD and soup broths to come out. Which is unreal during a non-busy lunch. The dim sum would take equally as long and somehow come out cold. There was also paper on our ha gao. When we put in our round two, it took equally as long and eventually we had to leave soon because our lunch break was almost over so we cancelled our round 2 but then it came out 2 minutes later. The waiters were extremely nice and apologetic but the food was just not good.Overall, I'd rather pay a few more dollars and eat at an AYCE place that includes the meat or faster service. The food itself was not good. Also, just a personal preference, the soup bases my friends and I got were mediocre. I would not come back to Blue Sakura.

Saw that this new hotpot spot in Boston opened up and included AYCE dim sum, what? Did I hear this right? We made our way there this weekend, it was move in weekend for the college kids - that was fun.....once we got past that, we scored a spot a block down and made our way in!The place is AYCE except for meat and seafood options, those are a la carte. We ordered chicken and fish and the rest was off the AYCE menu which included some appetizer and dim sum options. Now before you come thinking it's going to offer all the lovelies from your dim sum restaurant, be forewarned - there are only some selections, my guess is the offerings are the items that are quick to pump out so you're not gonna be getting ribs and chicken feet here but more so dumplings and buns. Our faves from the dim sum menu were the soup dumplings, both the regular and the sweet potato one along with your appetizer staples such as seaweed salad and takoyaki. Broths were decent and I always appreciate individual pots. Service was quick, efficient and friendly, ordering is off a tablet and soda and water are completely self serve AND included with the price! Win in my book. The place isn't super huge but big enough to hold a decent amount of ppl with 2 tops and 8 tops that they use a divider to become 4 tops. A few things that were off putting - we got there at 1230 and the menu stated Tonkotsu was sold out, I found that strange since that's a pretty standard broth to offer and also we didn't do our homework ahead of time - the restaurant closes from 2-5pm so at 130, we were told that the kitchen would be closing soon, anything else we wanted to please put in soon. I am not sure if this will be the norm going forward or it's due to a short staff status. I know better for next time.Overall, we really liked this place. Never seen an AYCE hotpot place with dim sum offerings before! We will be back!

Definitely wanted to try this place out since it's a new all you can eat hotpot that opened in boston. It is similar to spring shabu where meat and seafood is a la carte, but this place offers A LOT more - including dim sum, appetizers, and hot side dishes. I tried to order a few of everything but I came late at 9:30 on Wednesday and last call is at 10. It's nice out the portions are smaller so you don't waste food, and you order everything via an iPad. I got the sukiyaki chicken broth, it was alright nothing too fancy. Everything was pretty standard and with a price of $25 before tip and tax, excluding a la carte, that price is hard to beat. They have a sauce bar as well as a soda fountain that is included. The place isn't too big but it isn't small, so I can definitely see this place getting packed on a weekend. It's very clean and very modern.What is also amazing is the SERVICE! Even though they knew last call was at 10, they made sure my food came out quickly and let me know when the kitchen is closing multiple times. I believe my server was Mikael (it was the only name on the receipt) but he was super accommodating and even recommended that the mango bun pairs well with ice cream which he was not wrong. All the other servers were also great as well, especially for being so late at night with a few customers left. I definitely would come back!

There's a wide variety of items on their menu and I wasn't able to try everything there but our initial thoughts were everything looks so good. But once things arrived, it didn't meet expectations. The biggest downfall is the broths. They had many choices like spicy miso, sukiyaki, tonkotsu, tomato, curry, and more. Our party of 6 tried different bases and they all were very disappointing. The broth wasn't just lacking flavor, it was just so watered down and packed with msg that it really tasted like a pot of water with a tablespoon of soysauce or like a sprinkle of instant ramen broth. No complaints on the veggies or meat really since those were standard. The other sides are a hit or miss. Given that they are still relatively new, the service is a bit slow and confusing but they were generally very nice. The biggest table we saw was for 6 so I can't imagine a big party eating here. Not sure if I'll come back again given other hotpot/Shabu places nearby that's much better.

This place markets itself as AYCE, I am from Vegas and in Vegas AYCE means all you can eat, not a hybrid of cheap stuff is AYCE and meat and fish cost per plate.Now my dining partner and I arrived around 12:20 pm yesterday for lunch, we were greeted by grab a seat by the host desk, even though a number of tables were open. After about 5 minutes my partner asked a wait staff walking by if we could get a seat, he then took us to our table, Once at the table we were presented with a tablet to order. Now in principle, this seemed convenient, but its function was a bit quirky. When we were seated we were told we had one hour to order, to this moment I am still not sure this was because we came in at 12:20 or that's all that you get is one hour. So we started on the tablet and the clock was ticking, you first have to pick a soup base, we chose after reading a bit, with the clock ticking. We ordered the base and submitted the order to the kitchen to get things going. We continued to pick items and tried to submit a second time, this time the order was refused, until a certain time. We asked for help a couple of times. Now the interface was saying to retry order at a later time. We tried repeatedly and sometimes the order was taken other times the order was refused. It was explained to us the kitchen can only handle so many orders at once and to keep trying, We were about a 1/2hr into it by the time the base came and some peas. After we ate for a bit, we were getting warnings to get orders into the kitchen that was closing, we really hadn't been eating much up until this time. So we didn't want to waste food, we had no idea how big the meat orders were, so more was ordered at our cost even though we really had no measure as to what we would get. Even more frustrating was a message about gotcha and a count kept popping up when ordering, we have no idea what this is about, but it just added to the ridiculous experience, a taunting, and by now I felt like they got me from the time I walked in. We won't be back.This rushed meal ended with us paying 80+ for lunch including tips for two with no paid drinks. A bit high for an AYCE hot pot place, but it was a lesson for AYCE hotpot in the Boston area. One last point, when we were ordering the tablet tried to sign us up for membership to get reduced prices each time you come, once we found out about the membership cost, we didn't continue with it, but all the prices on the tablet displayed then member prices, so at checkout the bill was more of a surprise. No one advised us about the free soda you could get yourself or even the sauce area, but since we did a lot of hotpot over the years, so the sauce logistics we were familiar with. If you come, come early in their open window, so you won't be rushed as you try to figure things out, and understand clearly what AYCE eat means at this place.

Went on a Friday night at open with kids. They explained what was included in the ayce. Similar to Spring Shabu, meat and seafood is extra. We did order the meat and it was very good quality thick slices. Our kids enjoyed the mango sago bun and rhe yolk lava buns. The unlimited soda was also a hit with them. We ended up getting the membership for $30 foe the year and saved $10 off the extra meat and seafood we ordered and they also apply the $30 credit to our next visit. We will definitely be back!

The waitstaff is friendly and tries hard, but unfortunately, this place falls short in many areas. Ordering is done through a tablet, and then the waiting begins. After several delays and apologies, we were told our order was lost and had to be replaced, only to receive missing and duplicate items when they finally arrived. The dim sum was okay but not great. Some meats (not included) appeared discolored, likely from sitting out too long. Noodles and fish cakes were subpar, and the vegetables never even arrived, so I can't comment on them. The soda was included but was limited to just Mountain Dew, and the bowls and plates were not clean. The broth was overwhelmingly porky. Despite eating quickly, it took us over two hours to get even halfway full due to the excessive wait times--45 to 60 minutes for each order. This place desperately needs more staff and work out their kinks.

brisket was so good i forgot to take a picture before i ate it!! so delicious. the sauce buffet and the free drinks are great. our server was very kind and accommodating for my friends who had food allergies. i would love yo come again any time!!!!