Royal Hot Pot & BBQ

Shout out to our server, Nathan, who is fantastic and helped us have a very enjoyable night. My wife and I had so much fun at this new restaurant that opened up on San Jose. It is all you can eat, and you cook your food at your table. It has a fun vibe that is suitable for a date night, a fun family dinner or dinner out with your friends.There is one price, and it covers both the hot pot items and the table top barbecue. One of the coolest things they do is once you finished with cooking round 1, server will change out yourtable top grill do you can start anew.But what you want to know is about the food, am I right? Yes, this is an all you can eat restaurant.Special house sauce - I asked our server to bring us several sauces that were very popular, this was my favorite of the one she brought Hoisin sauce - just what you would've expect.Chili oil - they brought this out to my wife from the back, it is not on the sauce buffet.Other sauces - they have a ton of other sauces, some hot, some mild some savory, some sweet . One of the fun parts is trying different combinations..Tom Ka Gai - I chose this for my soup base, and liked it very much. It is the Thai soup base that you get at most Thai restaurants. Hot pot - I loaded my hot pot with a ton of fresh vegetables, udon noodles, and I was thrilled with the outcome.Crab Rangoon - very good but very small and more dough than Rangoon.Sushi - I was shocked that they're sushi was as good as it was.Grilled meat - they have a ton of different meats, like lamb, beef, chicken, shrimp, squid, just to name a few. They also have barbecue versions of the same. I would have to say my favorites were the chicken skewers, and the barbecue beef. The ribeye also came highly recommended to us, but I found the pieces very fatty and I didn't eat much of them. I also wasn't thrilled with the way the squid turned out, so I passed on it as well..Desserts - there are several dessert options, including puddings, fruit, and a cake and pie. These options were OK, although I did like the banana pudding, but the rest felt kind of flat.You get all sorts of utensils to eat in the cooking process. Things like ladle, tongs, spatulas, etc. I think we were there about an hour, but you could shorten it or even make it longer because nobody is rushing you at all. It is really a fun process, the restaurant is new and clean service was terrific..

Very expensive for the amount of food I could eat. The table had the cooktop for the meats and the burners for the soup. I got the chicken soup which was very flavorful. The markers on the buffet were incorrect so I got squid instead of pork belly. I don't know how long to cook squid so I couldn't eat it when it was cooked since it was too tough. The cook top was truly very hot in the center and hard to cook everything quickly when there was three of us. That being said the rest of the proteins I chose such as shrimp chicken and bulgogi were very tasty with the soup. Also the sushi and sashimi were very tasty. They have a huge salad bat which I couldn't eat at this time due to having a tooth pulled. I probably will go again with my partner helping me choose the meats and taking full advantage of the salad bar.

No Coke, PepsiNo metal spoon only plastic Togo spoons. Everything else was good. Selection was nice for both cooked and raw food. Servers were polite and professional.

Food not great. Help is new and training others. Broth not very good. But great choices of meat.

12/10. Wonderful service, food options, quality and cleanliness. I loved how they had hand sanitizer and plastic gloves available. The Tom yum broth was delicious! We have been to several Hot Pot restaurants in Jacksonville and the price is right on par. Superb value for $33.99 ($16.99 for kids 4 to 10) considering they are serving items such as unlimited snow crab legs, blue crab, oysters, frog legs, short ribs, sushi rolls, sashimi, dim sum, fruit and dessert along with the typical chicken, steak, shrimp and so much more. They also serve boba drinks for an addition charge. So happy the renovations were worth the wait!

Very good selection of veggies and meats for the buffet. They have sushi as well. You can control your hot pot, not sure if you're supposed to control your grill but we did lol. Staff was very nice. We will be back and highly recommend!!!

My husband and I have been waiting to try this. The food was good and the service great!! Compared to the other Asian buffets, its is way over price!!! We eat out a lot. It was more than a Japanese steakhouse??