Grand Hot Pot Lounge

My second time visiting the restaurant. The price and quality is very good for in the city restaurants. I'm not a hot pot expert so both times, one of our Chinese friends was there and helped with ordering.The menu has a great selection of meat, appetizers, and drinks. It is ayce hot pot and ayce drinks. They have alcohol, Asian drinks, and soda. So I love that they have the variety. They also have ice cream for after.The staff are nice, food comes out quick and is a great place to have dinner with friends and family.

The Yelp address and hours are wrong. I submitted the correct address but Yelp didn't accept it. Google has the correct address cause this is the smaller location without private karaoke rooms after the move. There is no Wasabi Bistro (so no sushi) even though the sign in the front says both.I came here for my birthday dinner with 5 other friends, since they have a free birthday meal deal. I live a few blocks from here and always passed by, so I wanted to try it. However, I feel disappointed by the experience. Even though I got a free meal, the bill was still $235 which is $47/person. That doesn't make sense, cause $35/person is supposed to be around $200. I realized the issue after my friends already paid, and went back the next day to talk to the same male server. He said he already included the birthday discount but wouldn't let me look at the bill again. Even with tax and tips included, it still shouldn't have been $235 unless if he added other fees but he wouldn't say what. Like did he added the wasted food charge without telling us. They gave too big portion sizes compared to KBBQ. One of my friends doesn't eat seafood and 1 is watching her weight. I found their menu selection really frustrating how we couldn't specify if we want a small/medium/large portion so we ended up with leftovers. Like I ordered beef balls and fish roe balls, but only 2 other friends wanted to eat the balls with me. I ended up having to eat 6 balls to not waste the food. Overall, I felt too stuffed at the end and the quality of the food wasn't that great except the cooked food. The quality of the cooked food was really good like honey prawns, Shanghai soup dumplings, egg rolls, etc. I was satisfied with the all you can drink selection and enjoyed the sweet canned chrysanthemum tea and canned pearl milk tea. I also really liked the ice cream flavors. He wouldn't let us sing karaoke though cause we don't have the minimum 15 people at this location. There were only 4 tables of customers the whole Thursday night so he could've been generous and turn on the karaoke instead of basketball on the TV. He also didn't say happy birthday and gave us the bill at 8:30pm when it's closing at 9pm, so overall service seems not good. Fortunately he didn't tell us we were there for 2 hrs instead of the 90 mins time limit since there was a lack of customers. It was good to try once but I won't be returning.

You can't beat $35/person for unlimited canned drinks (lychee/passion fruit juice, soy milk, milk tea, black tea, beer etc) AND all you can eat hot pot items AND all you can eat small plates! They have a bunch of different kinds of hot pot meats and veggies. Their small plates range from sashimi to cucumber salad to spicy intestine. Their sashimi was limited to 1 order but it was actually so fresh including salmon, shrimp, and scallop. Only docking one star since I do think their broths could use some improvement and it's a vital part of the hot pot experience! The house spicy broth was lacking in flavor and fragrance. The chicken feet broth was not bad, but didn't taste very rich. I relied heavily on my dipping sauce for flavor. I'd definitely recommend Grand Hot Pot Lounge though if you're hungry and want to have a good time with friends!

Fun for a birthday dinner with a large group! For dinner, it's AYCE hot pot with all you can drink included (beer, sake, wine options) for around $40 including tax and tip, so it's a pretty good deal. And if you go on the exact day of your birthday, you can eat for free! Would recommend making a reservation ahead of time since there isn't a whole lot of seating inside.Their hot pot offerings were pretty standard, not the largest variety I've seen and the quality was also pretty normal. They have a lot of small dishes and appetizers like honey walnut shrimp and scallion pancakes that can be ordered too. They had a lot of different kinds of hot pot broths though -- we just got 2 pots of the original broth, but would be interested in trying their spicy broths! They also have a small ice cream fridge with 4 flavors of ice cream gallons that are self serve, although the green tea and black sesame flavors I tried were kinda mediocre. But it's all included!Service was quick though, we got our hot pot ingredients and dishes promptly after giving the waiter our paper menu. There's a karaoke setup with mics and a TV at the back of the restaurant, and closer to closing time a group next to us turned it on and went really hard on the karaoke so that made the atmosphere fun and lively.

Perfect for a large group. We were a group of 10 and made a reservation for 5:45 on a Thursday night.We had three bowls of soup. One spicy, one mild, and one half and half. We had thought the half and half was a mid point in spiciness but it was actually a pot with half spicy and half mild broth. Next time we'd just order three of the half n half. It was easiest for one person to do all of the ordering and we got a spread of meats, noodles, and veggies. We were happy with how quickly everything came out and the broth was quickly hot enough to start cooking. Make sure you order the sesame balls!A member of our group was in white and the staff brought out an apron to help them from staining their shirt. We all laughed when he told us his children don't spill on themselves!The self serve drink fridge, variety of sauces, and self serve ice cream were all great.All you can eat and all you can drink for $45 each. We all left super full. One thing to note is they have moved locations so the photos in the red room are of the old space. Make sure you navigate to the new location!

Recently been here twice since they moved to their new location - 4134 Geary (next door to Brothers Korean BBQ.)Great AYCE hot pot experience. Their broths are so good also. The meat selections are fresh, delicious, they give a generous portion. I really like all the other selections like all the veggies, seafood, etc. Self serve ice cream. A bit iffy about this, but you can always skip.Service is efficient and friendly. Ambiance is nice as it seems newly remodeled. Comfortable sitting and nice bright interior. They share same space as Wasabi bistro. No more karaoke at this location.

We came here on a Monday at 4pm and the guy charged us for a lunch instead of dinner even though dinner service started at 4pm. The lunch was around $25 per person excluding tax. There were only about 6 people here all together. The food came out almost instantaneously. This place serves all you can drink, all you can drink alcohol is only with the dinner service. They have soy milk and grass jelly drinks along with other tropical canned drinks and your normal sodas. Unlike other places you have a communal pot. This is more family style than normal hot pot places. Dinner is about $10 more but has more options when it comes to appetizers. The meats for the most part were pretty good. They also have frog legs here which is different. I didn't try it but my boyfriend said it tasted like chicken. The appetizers were pretty good! (Honey walnut shrimp was on the menu) over all pretty good experience.

Came here for the first time in a while with a group of friends for a weekend dinner. It was $35 + tax per person AYCE, including drinks and made to order appetizers.We selected two soup bases, one spicy for meats and one vegetarian. We checked off items on a paper menu that we wanted, and they'd come on a raised platter that was placed next to our table.The service would bus leftover plates, cans, and utensils pretty quickly. For sauces and getting non-water drinks, there was a sauce station and also a drinks fridge where we could grab our own sauces and drinks.I had a great time, found the food satisfactory for the price, and the ease of the hot pot experience here to be easy and great. Will definitely come again!

Came around 4pm and it was very empty for an ayce restaurant, which was great because there was no wait and the service was quick. Most of the food came out after a couple minutes, couple items were missing but it's fine because it's ayce and you can just reorder.All the food and the broth tasted fantastic. There is a good selection of meats and lunch appetizers, there's even more for dinner. The fridge drinks are very different from the regular restaurant drinks, making it fun and interesting. Would come back especially for dinner

Belated post but in my opinion there are many better hot pot places in SF to choose instead. Personally, my criteria for hot pot are flavorful broths, quality ingredients, and a good variety of choices. Everything was just ok and I wasn't too impressed. Also, the service was slow and the place seemed a bit rundown? Sadly would pass on going again!