Sizzle Mongolian BBQ

Love this place! Been coming here since high school. The prices have gone up considerably which is understandable because it's happening everywhere. But it's still great! Only complaint I have is that it's very dirty. The tables were all dirty, and I dropped my phone on the floor and noticed the floors under the tables were very dirty.

Food - $19.95 fill your bowl to the brim, add sauces and ginger. Comes with 1 spring roll and small wonton appetizer, your choice of sauce, but sweet sour provided. Egg flower soup and rice or stir fry rice. Both good.Soda, add $1.95 a deal.We each took home enough for a light lunch. Some people pile it high, we did not.Service - you prep, they cook and bring to your table. Nothing fancyAmbiance - very casual, family business, and many families enjoying dinner

The staff that works here is wonderful. The food is delicious and the price is right. I can get two to three meals out of mine. The owner is so loud and the vibe of the staff falls when he arrived. I will keep going back as I really enjoy creating my own meal.

This place gets really busy, but for a reason. It is the best Mongolian around. The choices are plenty, they have so many sauces to chose from. They add sides like soup, fried rice and wontons. The people who run the place are awesome. Highly recommend

Yum! I've never had mongolian bbq but my boyfriend has been wanting to introduce me to it ever since he found that out ;)There's a self-serve bar where you can pack your bowl with as much ingredients as you want. You then request either white rice or fried rice, hot & sour or egg drop soup, and a choice of drink. They quickly bring all of this out as you're waiting for them to grill your noodles. They also provide wonton chips and vegetable egg rolls :-) The owner is very passionate about his restaurant, the ordering system is efficient and gets straight to the point. There's really no time to waste here and I love that. Our food came piping hot and I love how they had thicker noodles that you could choose. My boyfriend suggested using as much sauce to drench the noodles and I'm so glad I did. The minced garlic added a really nice aroma too. It was super yummy! I got white rice on the side to eat with my meat if I felt like the noodles were too much. Their white rice is a bit off, not my favorite so I probably wouldn't go with that option next time. Overall, very delicious and I understand why people enjoy coming for a quick bite!

We were excited about this place when we first moved to the area in 2015. It was neat to live so close to a Mongolian BBQ and we pictured ourselves eating lots of veggies, as a result. :P But in the last few years, we have hardly frequented this particular Mongolian BBQ, despite it being the closest to us. This past week, my mom was visiting and since she loves Mongolian BBQ and eating lots of veggies, I figured we'd stop by and check it out. There were two things that concerned me before we actually drove here though: Long lines and hearing the owner/boss yell at his employees. But I figured many years have passed, maybe they had gotten better with the lines and the owner hopefully had fine-tuned his management approach.Came on a Wednesday at lunch time and there was a line waiting for the grill. In the past, I had always thought the line was due to really great food and its popularity. And I guess it is pretty popular. But this time, my mom (she's a frequent Mongo patron) commented to me that the employees working the grill were moving REALLY slowly. So I looked at the employees and indeed, they were taking their time and the speed was quite a bit slower than other Mongolian BBQ establishments. Mom also mentioned that if you watch the way they slide the cooked food onto the finished plate, you can gauge their skills. These employees did seem to slide the food a lot slower than other places. Of course, if I were to do it, food would go flying everywhere, so I respect their skills, but they definitely don't seem to have a sense of urgency when they're working the grill, despite the line forming behind us. We noted how an employee brought vats of a dark colored liquid that they would pour into every single person's bowl, which seemed strange to me. The whole point of going to Mongolian is that you add your own ingredients so that you know what you're eating, right? For them to add that mystery soup base without letting customers know what's in it seems suspect. All the other Mongolian places we've been to, the chefs add water to the food while cooking, to prevent sticking. I guess this place figures if they add some flavoring to each bowl, customers will think it tastes great and come back again. My mom does not like any kind of sweetness in her cooked food, so she was disappointed when she ate her bowl of noodles. She said it was too sweet. Mine didn't taste sweet to me, but my taste buds are probably a lot more desensitized to sweetness compared to hers. So we're guessing there's either some sugar or MSG in the soup mix that they're adding to each bowl. The "egg flower" soup is unusually yellow and the fried rice is so dark too.The food wasn't that great and there didn't seem to be a big assortment of vegetables and ingredients that we see in other establishments (tofu, etc). But what bothered me most about our most recent visit is how the owner/boss (Charlie?) barks out questions to customers. The whole entire restaurant gets to hear how many people are in your party, if it's one check or two, if you want egg flower or hot/sour soup, any drinks, and if you do spicy. I found it really uncomfortable to have someone yelling at me while I was standing in line. It wasn't like it was loud in there and he had to talk over machinery or anything. It just appears that's how he talks.And then you get to observe how he treats his employees. If he gets annoyed, he'll yell at them or just make snippy comments like, "Next time, just say 'I GOT IT!'" when he reprimanded how a female server responded to him. At one point during our visit, he was yelling at the server about how it was the same party/table and the customer responded to his question, which made him apologize and say he was talking to his employee. You could tell he was embarrassed at how brusquely he had spoken. He would also make snide comments to the female employee in Cantonese.It got to the point where I almost wanted to pull aside the female server and be like, "You know you don't have to put up with this, right?" and something like, "He shouldn't treat his employees like this." Just spent our visit sitting there and listening to this and feeling very uncomfortable. Even had a discussion with Mom about how he must treat his own family members at home if he treats his paid employees like this in public. Maybe I've changed in the last 8 years and gotten more sensitive to how employers treat their employees. Or maybe it just didn't bother me as much back then (though I do recall writing something about it in a previous Yelp review). Don't plan to go back. Horrible treatment of employees, food doesn't taste that great, they add stuff to your food without informing you, and it's pricey at $17. So many other great Mongolian BBQ places that we'll support instead.

8-2-24 Ok best Mongolian barbecue between Sac and Placer county. For dinner the line was out the door and it was worth it. Charlie owner directing and has the best service team ever. Great job sizzle Mongolian barbecue definitely coming back very soon.

I'm very disappointed in this Mongolian bbq place. Poor meat selection, lack of veggie choices, mediocre service, and terrible food quality.My family came here for dinner on Friday. Food was extremely spicey and salty. There was no selection for lamb for dinner which was a huge disappointment. You only get 1 bowl and it's not unlimited. The fried rice tasted stale and old. The egg roll was okay.They offered to clean the grill if we were sensitive to spice which my 2 year old son is. We told them that we would like it cleaned. Did they clean it? Not sure but all of our dishes tasted like someone dipped a few scoops of chili oil in it.The only thing I liked was the cauliflower soup.Avoid this spot. There's a better Mongolian restaurant that isn't too far from this location and that Mongolian restaurant has much better selection.

Fantastic food. Literally unbeatable in regards to flavor and freshness. Super nice staff, the owner is always here and always the nicest guy ever. Always recommend this place to all of my friends and family.

I have enjoyed Sizzle for many years and love the food. It's one of the few places I go where I actually enjoy noodles and veggies without needing meat (they have meat if that's your thing, of course). I was a little puzzled when I read through the other reviews. I've personally never seen the owner be rude to the employees, but he is definitely a visible part of the experience - he's an involved owner, and is always keeping things running in one way or another. He does have a matter-of-fact, direct approach; and somewhat reminds me of the way chefs interact with each other in a kitchen. I have seen him be stern a time or two. It wouldn't surprise me if he worked in a kitchen at some point.Sizzle has been super consistent in quality and experience for over a decade, and my opinion is that the owner's involvement is a huge part of that consistency. My personal experience is a solid five stars based on that.