Shabu Zone

Food is always good here. My recommendations are the spicy soup broth and meats 5, 6 and 11! You'll never go wrong with these choices! Other than that, the tonkatsu broth is also good, and you can add your own spicy from the assortment of different spices at the sauce bar.The only thing I will say, service has definitely gone down. The person serving us just stood at our table for like a good few minutes not saying one word to us, just staring in the distance. No hello, no what would you like to drink, what meats, nothing.I've been to shabu zone many times and never had this happen before. I can understand if you want to leave customers to look through the menu, but we weren't even looking, we knew what we wanted.Luckily, the food and price are good here or else I wouldn't go so often.

It was a cold night and perfect time for hotpot. Shabu zone is our go to place. There is usually a short wait during cold nights as a lot of people have the same idea.Once seated, you have a choice of soup. If you are not familiar with Hotpot, you grab raw ingredients from the bar located in the middle of the restaurant (vegetables, seafood, noodles) and you dunk the raw food into the hotpot. What soup you choose is a matter of preference, for me, I always go for the Tonkatsu (#4) which is pork broth and is very tasty. We went to the buffet bar and grab our first plate consisting of vegetables ( spinach, watercress, mushrooms, fish ball, tofu skin, meat ball, corn and others). We also grab a second plate consisting of seafood from the bar as well... shrimp, scallop, mussels, clams, squid, fish and oysters. Once the soup starts to boil, we start putting seafood first then vegetables although don't think there is any real order so you can do whatever you like. They also have some sauces you can combine. I usually get the flaming ponzu that's also mixed with a number of ingredients... in addition, i add more garlic and spring onions. Yum! You use dunk the cooked meat, vegetable or seafood and enjoy.Oh yeah, don't want to forget them best part. They have 11 different meats and meat cuts to choose from. Place the order with your server and they will bring it to the table. Best cuts, IMO, are 1, 2, 3, 5 and 11. Go ahead and experiment and enjoy! Whenever meat is running low, you can order a new set of meats.There is ice cream and fruits on the side. Flavors include red bean, green team, vanilla, strawberry, chocolate and sometimes, mango.Restaurant is nice and bright. You can ask for refills, napkins or more soup or meat from any server. Think they pool the tips.

The service was amazing and very friendly. The menu options were extensive and they had meat quality. All of the side were delicious and it is very worth the price race for AYE! The establishment was also very clean and chill with great parking options.

Very good hot pot! We came for Easter Sunday & the wait wasn't too long. I love that they had a selection of seafood with different noodle variety & the dipping sauces made everything taste even better. The ice cream was the best part! So creamy & flavorful! Waiters were very attentive!

Though shabu zone is a HUGE place, it can get pretty busy here pretty quickly. It's an AYCE spot and they have a LOT to choose from. You order your soup base and meat selection with the waiter and you can pick from a buffet-esque selection of seafood, veggies, and sauces. I got the spicy house soup which was good and provided the kick that I wanted. If you like sweeter broths, I recommend the sukiyaki--my friends got this and they enjoyed it immensely. The meat we ordered were all of good quality, and the veggies at the buffet line were super fresh. The seafood is frozen, but cooks pretty quickly despite that. The sauce bar is also pretty large with lots of different options, and they also offer different types of kimchi!

Nut allergy friendly. They say to mention it to your waiter but I haven't had to. Most of the nuts are on the sauce bar in the corner - the main one on the island is pretty nut free. The sauce I make is very simple - spicy ponzu, chili powder, green chili, sweet garlic, and some green onion.If you like hot pot but hate sharing a pot between six people, shabu-shabu is a must try. It's hot pot, but everyone gets their own pot and hence their own choice of broth.Shabu Zone's broths are a little bland. I got the Spicy #2 and it was not spicy at all. This is easily remedied by following their suggestion of cooking your seafood first, which does add richness to the broth.A common complaint of hot pot is that all of the meats blend together. This is only true if you overcook your meat. Thin slices of beef take seconds to cook. If you leave it in the broth, then yes, you're getting overcooked, bland, stringy meat. #1 and #4 meats were very flavorful. I will say, two of the waiters had no idea which meat was which either, but they were able to bring us more on sight alone which I thought was hilarious.The seafood bar is not the freshest but it is adequate. Plenty of hot pot style vegetables, like four types of mushrooms.The service is lightning fast. Meat comes out in less than five minutes, and waiters are clearing plates every few minutes too. Impressive considering the restaurant was totally full with a 15 minute wait when I went on a Friday at 7PM.Overall, a great time to enjoy hot pot at the reasonable price of about $40/pp after tax and tip. They give a free bottle of champagne for your birthday, too!

Let this be a testament that the food was amazing, because i don't have a single picture! I was with amazing people so we all got distracted and forgot to take pictures of the place, the food, almost everything! This place was recommended by someone at a different restaurant and let me tell you we were so pleased with everything. And I do mean everything! The place is clean, inviting, the tables were great, the staff omg the staff, everyone was so friendly and helpful! Everyone walking by was quick to help clean up, to ask if we needed anything else, very much on top of the refills. We were there to celebrate a birthday and they even played a happy birthday song, provided plates for cake and gave a complimentary bottle of champagne to toast!!! I ordered the #6 broth with ribeye and prime rib meats, now ordinarily I have to doctor up my broth with all of the sauces, but honestly I only added a bit of soy sauce and only because I tend to like my broth a little salty so my carrots and broccoli can absorb the flavor. They had everything I like from the shrimp, muscles, scallops, corn, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots and they even had jalapeño slices which I hadn't seen before! I also prefer a thin noodle over the thick ones and they has seaweed noodles! I didn't even bother taking a picture after the meal because for the first time ever I actually finished my broth! Again I didn't have to do a thing to it! Lovely flavor profile had just enough of everything! This will definitely be added to our usual spots, now like most hotspots it is a bit pricey but definitely well worth it! You can always try it during the week as they do have lunch specials! Oh the rice wine Sparkling Korean Rice wine in the grapefruit flavor was also surprisingly tasty! In conclusion, sorry I can't provide you with pictures of all of the food options! I'm usually better about this, but seriously give them a try you will not be disappointed! We also got seated very quickly! Keep in mind they do have a 2 hour table policy so try and get your party together before anyone is seated and they do have a fee for any food ordered in excess, which I mean I'm not mad about, keeps them from wasting a lot of food and honestly as a whole we need to work on not being so wasteful!

Best place in Houston to full fill your cravings of hot soup! Love coming to Shabu zone for the all you can eat lunch and dinner menu. They have abundant choices of meats, broths, vegetables, seafood and sauces, this place is perfect. Servers are very attentive ensuring that you have meats in your table as much as needed and refill your pot with broth as requested. My favorite broth is #4, Tonkotsu and meat choices are #1-#4, #5 & #6 and #11. Every time I dine here, always leave full, nice and warm inside. This place never disappoints and keeps getting better and better every time I go.

shabu zone is my go-to hotpot spot in Bellaire. They have a large selection of items that most places cant compete with. I love the selections of meats, noodles, sauces, side dishes, etc. They're usually pretty busy whenever I go but since the restaurant is so big, I feel like the line moves pretty quick. Their staff are efficient of getting customers items ordered so you might not have a single server designated for your table but that's why the service is so quick! One thing I would note is to make sure that you're cooking your seafood thoroughly. I have known people that have gotten sick due to their seafood so I would be cautious about that.

I've tried the tonkotsu broth and spicy broth, and while the tonkotsu was fine, I would not reorder the spicy broth because it was lacking in flavor. During lunch, you can order from #5-11 on the meat menu, which is a pretty good deal! The meat itself was good, although the lamb is tougher than at other hot pot places like Happy Lamb or Liuyishou. I would order the beef here instead.