An affordable, yet delicious AYCE hot pot location in the Bay Area? Say no more! If this statement is enough to entice you to satisfying that hot pot craving of yours, then Shabuya should be the next stop on your list if you're ever in...
Read MoreAn affordable, yet delicious AYCE hot pot location in the Bay Area? Say no more! If this statement is enough to entice you to satisfying that hot pot craving of yours, then Shabuya should be the next stop on your list if you're ever in the East Bay Area. Located in Concord, Shabuya offers AYCE at an affordable price of $20.99 for lunch and $29.99 for dinner (which is about a solid $5-10 off the normal price I'm used to seeing of $35+ for AYCE). Don't let the price fool you, the food and quality of Shabuya can rival any other AYCE location I've been to.
I visited their Concord location on a Friday night for dinner, arriving around 6pm or so. They do have a waitlist that you can join either on Yelp or when you arrive at the restaurant (luckily they are located in a plaza so if you do join later you can still walk around the area while waiting for your turn). We got lucky, and they were just cleaning up a table as we stepped inside and they told us our wait would be about 5 minutes.
After being seated, we were greeted by our server Josi who was an absolute delight throughout the night that I just HAD to give her a shoutout here. Seriously, if Josi is your server you'll be in for a fantastic dining experience as she is not only attentive to her diners, but also an absolute sweetheart to be around.
We selected our soup options - miso for me and the house special for my partner (after debating between that one and the tonkatsu option, which Josi steered us towards the house option, thank you again!). We were then informed that we could order up to 2 appetizers per round and 4 plates of meat per round (of note each plate of meet had about 4 slices). Non-alcoholic drinks were refillable, and so I went with their lychee iced tea (which was another one of Josi's recommendations). Just a quick aside, I know the drinks aren't why you'd want to dine here but the lychee iced tea was to die for and I was absolutely delighted that I could get refills on it and enjoyed the drink to my heart's content.
For our first round we got their gyoza, soy glazed chicken karage, prime flat iron steak, beef toro, premium rib eye, and prime blade meat. Service was fairly speedy and we were dining on our meat in no time. Other hot pot accompaniments and sauces are self-serve at the salad-bar type of set up in the center of the restaurant. I will say there isn't a whole lot of options, but they do have your standard noodles, vegetables, fish cake, and seafood selections available (which in my opinion is plenty give the price point of this AYCE hot pot place). With all of our food in front of us we dug in and enjoyed our meal to the fullest - the meat was of good quality overall and the entire meal experience was very enjoyable.
If you need a go-to AYCE hot pot location in the East Bay, then Shabuya may just be the place for you!
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