Shabu Sushi

Cool shabu spot, 23 $ all you can eat. Fun atmosphere, pretty basic service but all in all good experience and time!

great afternoon shabu spot. great teasting meats, friendly staff. I always wondered hows this place since its so close to my house. they are reasonable priced with wide sellection of dishes. try it out!

Ahhh, Shabu Sushi, the ambivalence I feel towards you is strong. I should first note that for the food alone, I would give this place 5 stars. The all you can eat shabu is simply delicious. Sooo many delicious meats to choose from. Oh, and veggies too, if you’re into that whole having a healthy and balanced meal sorta thing. They also do all you can drink for an extra $ 10 per person, which is a helluva deal, if you ask me. We were, however, disappointed because they have soju on their menu but, in actuality, they no longer serve it. We were all very excited about the soju and were quite disappointed that we had to settle for sake.
While the food is delicious, the service here is, sadly, the absolute worst. Definitely a 1 star for service kinda deal. I’ll spare you most of the boring details, but suffice it to say that the last time we ate here, we were at the restaurant for 4 hours! And not by choice. All you can eat/​drink only lasts for 90 minutes, so you do the math. Our servers always disappear after the second round of shabu and it’s always a fun game to guess how long it’ll take them to resurface. During our 4 hour stay at Hotel Shabu Sushi, we had to go into the kitchen to find our server so we could get the check. Oh and we had to do the same just to pay the bill. I swear it seems like they want people to just walk out without paying.
As much as I complain about the service, I continue to go eat there because it really is very tasty. But I’ll actually start recommending it to people once the servers pull their heads out of their butts and start giving their customers real service.

ZERO STARS!!! This place was honestly the worst shabu place I have ever been to. It was horrible service from the time we glt there. We walk in and no one even greets us. It takes 10 mins before the server notices us. It took 5 more minutes to seat us. We get seated and were only offered the all you can eat hotpot menu. We were very confused and we noticed that the menu she gave us was USED. It was someone elses all you can eat hot pot sheet. We request for another menu and yet again that was another 5 mins before we recieved it. We fill out the sheet and we order miso and spicy miso broth, 2 rib eyes, veggies, rice and 1 milk tea. It took awhile for the meat to come but it came before the rice, veggies and milk tea. The server actually forgot my milk tea. I had to remind her. I also asked for a fork (the fork never came).
So for round 2 i got another rib eye and my boyf got short rib. IT TOOK 20 mins for my rib eye to come. We asked for the short rib and she said the meat cutter had to finissh cutting the riv eye first. We told her how long we have been waiting for the short rib and it magically came right after we complained to her. Our ponzu sauce was pretty much gone already so i asked for more. While i was waiting for ponzu i decided to start cooking my meat. As i got halfway thru the plate i noticed there was HAIR on it. I told our server and she just took it. She didnt apologize or anything. She took the plate and my chopsticks. She didnt even bring back another plate of meat. Wtf??? It was 15 mins before she asked us if we wanted to order anything else… And were like UM EXCUSE ME WHERES UR MANAGER!!! N
We spoke to the manager and she was still trying to charge us for all you can eat!!! Hell nooo!!! We refused to pay $ 23 each when we only got thru 1 plate!!! WORST SERVICE EVER!!! NEVER GO HERE

Despite having «sushi» in the name, they DON’T SERVE SUSHI ANYMORE. They are just a shabu place now. They told us this as soon as we walked in and we promptly left and walked up one block to Nagano Sushi.
A sign would be nice…

My friends and I are regulars here because of the all you can eat shabu. Great atmosphere and they have the best service. Too bad they stopped the all you can eat sushi, but you get unlimited drinks, even milk tea. Plus free ice cream at the end of every meal.

If I could give 0 stars I would. Very poor possibly racially driven service! If you’re not asian you might have a harder time getting a table, you will at least have to wait for ANY body asian that might just walk in off the street & be seated before you. Seriously this happened 2** TIMES while we were waiting to be seated before we finally walked out (15 – 20 minutes). None of these other people had reservations, I head them ask each & every one before they were sat. Customer service FAIL! Shabu sushi can take their racially driven customer service & stick it!
Fist come, first serve unless you have a reservation.
That’s not cool!
**EDIT:
This was about a year ago & my wife reminded me that they only seated 2 tables in this manner before us, so I corrected the number above from 3 to 2. My opinion still stand of this business.

I guess I had a rare positive experience, but overall I enjoyed myself and had great service.
Let’s start off with the obvious: there is no sushi being served here anymore. They advertise it, but it’s not there. Seriously, guys, take the sign down. Most of these reviews are just complaining about that.
I had never tried hot pot before, though, and so it served as a chance for me to try new things.
I was alone (because I’m very cool) and so I had no direction on how this worked exactly, but it went off alright. If you’re reading this and also very cooly eating alone, I will tell you that it’s pretty simple:
1. Put it all in pot
2. Take it out of pot
3. DO NOT drop spoon with draining holes. Most important spoon in my experience. Also, very embarrassing.
4. Eat with inferior spoon if you ignored step 3.
It’s also SUPER economical. Lots of pork, veggies (+ fun cooking experience!) for $ 10. This also includes ice cream. Could have easily served 2, but, like, I was hungry.
I felt like a talented chef, and that experience is priceless!

I’ve been here many times before and I still am on the fence. As everyone else mentioned, there is a lot of false advertisement going on at this place. Why have 4 pages of the menu devoted to sushi when you don’t serve sushi? Also, if you want to do the All You Can Eat. if you’re with anyone else they all have to do the ‘All you can Eat’ as well.
That said, the all you can eat and drink option is well worth the price. The food isn’t ‘the best’ shabu around but it def taste like the best after 1 – 2 Soju shots. The place is clean and usually plays some kind of K-​Pop concert on their Television screens. I’ll be updating this review after another go.

Fraudulent advertising at its best: please sell a Groupon advertising sushi and Shabu, have a 9 page menu with 8 pages of sushi then stop serving sushi and not allow me to get my money back.
I’ve had your Shabu before and it wasn’t all that. I bought the Groupon because the sushi looked good and now you don’t serve it. You don’t serve it and you won’t refund my money or let me use both Groupons together so I can get this experience over with.
You are the prime example of false advertising.
If I could do zero stars I would.

I bought the Groupon to this place because I thought it would be a great idea to convince my boyfriend to shabu and if he doesn’t like it, there’s at least sushi options for him! Keep in mind that I’ve been trying to convince him to try shabu for 4 years now and I absolutely LOVE shabu.
I didn’t read the Unilocal reviews before buying the Groupon so I got really disappointed when I’m seeing less than 3 stars so I didn’t expect much at all from this place when I went.
I don’t know why other people rate this place less than 3 because this place deserves 4 stars! First of all, I need to note that sushi is not on their menu anymore. They’re just shabu, which is in my favor for the night because that forced my bf to eat shabu: D
The service was great! and the meat quality was good. The prices are slightly cheaper than other shabu places on Geary but I think the portions are slightly less too. We got the spicy miso and spicy mongolian as soup base. Spicy Mongolian was soooo good.
I always end the meal with udon and I was so full after. Perfect portion size.
I would definitely come back again to do their AYCE for $ 20! That would be so worth it.

I never uttered the words «this meat taste wierd» at a shabu place before. Shabu Sushi, you popped my cherry. Please don’t order the pork meat. I gave it an additional star because all u can eat was 19.95 including unlimited ice cream and cold drinks like ice lemon tea.
The broth has no flavor — tried both the spicy and original. no avail.
I agree with the other Unilocaler. best was the green tea ice cream. At least the place looks nice? Eh.

This review is for the sushi takeout option. Something about this place grossed me out. I can’t tell it it’s because I made the mistake of ordering, then looking at bad reviews, then eating. When I initially received the delivery, I was impressed with the punctuality of delivery and presentation of the food. Everything looked perfect, actually. But biting into my sushi I found the strange blandness other people were talking about. Where some bites were bland, others had a funky/​unreconizable taste. When I tried some shrimp tempura, I was almost satisfied, but then realized how thoroughly drenched in grease the thin strip of shrimp was. I ate half of one and started to feel sick. I also question the freshness of some of the crab. The only part I could really scarf down was the agedashi tofu. That was pretty great.
I would give more stars, but I feel that this place is horribly overpriced. Or at least the delivery sushi menu is higher. I spent 50 $ on four dishes and am trashing an awful lot of sushi. Regret, definitely.

I don’t have much hot pot experience so this was a newish thing for me.
The service: It was a busy night and we sat at the bar. The guy next to me was totally disturbed as he was eating because he wanted a plate to go with his food and maybe something else, he was visibly upset (cartoon with steam coming out of his ears, looking at us like «can you even believe this place?»).
I was cool with the service though.
Sometimes when a place is busy the server gets caught up and is overwhelmed, I would rather have bad service due to a place being busy that a place not being busy and the food sitting around for
days.
We ordered drinks that never came (I had low expectations after reading other Unilocal reviews anyhow). I could have pressed the drink issue when the food came, but it came so fast and we just started to eat. I decided I didn’t need a drink anyhow.
The food: The Spicy Miso and the Spicy Mongolian broth are great with the rib eye. I am sure the only reason this place gets bad reviews is that we as a culture believe we deserve only the best and when we don’t get what we want we lash out like little children. Don’t water down the broth more by crying in it, this place is just fine the way it is. Just make sure to keep your expectations lower than you might for some other restaurants and recognize that you’re not dinning at this place for the service, your doing it for other reasons.
Would I go back, maybe if I have friends from out of town that want that type of thing because they don’t have it the part of Australia, Montana, Ohio, Nebraska or wherever they don’t have the unyielding diversity of food we have here in SF.
I am glad I tried it once, and glad I tried it with the groupon I had so I didn’t feel ripped off.

This is my go to Shabu Spot and I have tried all of them.
They are more trendy and fun with music vedio’s and things. (I am not asian but its still fun)
There all you can eat and drink is obviously awesome especially with big groups.
They have private rooms!!!
If you get the all you can eat with sushi, well dont expect much. But there sushi of the menu is actually pretty good, for a shabu spot.
Again 5 Stars for the all around one stop solution!

We walked in thinking that it was AYCE for everything – including specialty rolls. But it wasn’t. However, some of my friends and I came here the other day completely famished and ready to feast. We all ordered AYCE (not that we had another option). It was average price for an AYCE offer – $ 21. We ordered two plates of meat, and got like five. I really enjoyed the meat in the spicy Mongolian broth. The udon was pretty good, and the meat was pretty tasty as well, I just couldn’t stop! Overall, shabushabu was a good treat. The seafood shabu shabu was mediocre though – mussles weren’t great or anything, very little variety/​freshness in terms of seafood. But I like meat better anyway.
As for the sushi – it should not be a reason why you come here. There was too much rice in their rolls, and their rolls were huuuuge and not in a good way. I really wish we didn’t have to pay an extra $ 10 for specialty rolls, but I guess that’s what it takes to pay for SF rent.
But good news for all ya’ll with a sweet tooth. The ice cream is all you can eat as well. We ordered a few bowls of their green tea ice cream, not the best green tea, but hey, it was bottomless!
There was a time restriction of 2 hours at this place though, which makes sense. We definitely all got a bang for our buck here… absolutely stayed our complete welcome. The service can sure try better to hide their distaste for us though. I understand we’re a couple of college students eating as much as we can, but you gave us an offer and we’re here to take it. We are paying customers, and despite the borderline awful service we received, we felt bad and gave them a 15% tip. A smile really wouldn’t have hurt. That’s the reason for this place not receiving five stars – the excessive amount of rice in their sushi and their unpleasant service at times.

As shabu shabu novices, my friend and I had a lot of fun!
We passed this place last time we got together, and could see the backside of the projector projecting into the street. This time we went in, and I had planned to get sushi. I was excited about $ 20 all you can eat. But that’s only for lunch — dinner is $ 31 *insert sad trombone noise* Everyone else in the place looked like they were really enjoying their shabu shabu, and I’m glad I made the decision to join in!
Vegetarian is tofu, daikon, mushrooms, spinach, lettuce, cabbage, and carrots, I think. About $ 11 for dinner portion.
Beef is a smaller portion of all that, plus. .. beef.
It came with ice cream! And an awesome waitress! And pop music videos! Actually, this was fully a four star experience. Yes, yay, I’m a fan of Shabu Sushi.

The server had on his headphones because his music was more important than me. He ignored me the entire time I was there. I had to wave my hands repetitively to get his attention.
The food was well below par and the price was a bit high for the quality. The design of the restaurant is really nice though.
Do not go here.

After a positive shabu shabu experience earlier this year on the Peninsula I purchased a BloomSpot deal for Shabu Pub without actually consulting Unilocal.I had my mind made up that we were going to use this on a chilly weekend, since shabu shabu is probably one of the most ideal hot things you can eat to warm up. Unfortunately, I consulted Unilocal before heading out and was completely disappointed to see the less than stellar 2-​star rating. Fortunately, the dining experience good enough, and definitely worthy of more than two stars.
We ordered the following:
— soft shell crab tempura
— regular vegetarian shabu shabu
— large ribeye shabu shabu
— dragon roll
The soft shell crab tempura was fishy — ehh! Definitely failed the seafood freshness test compared to other places where I’ve had excellent versions of this starter.
The shabu shabu meals came with veggies, udon noodles, and ice cream. We had a choice to two broths and opted for the spicy miso and mongolian broths. My veggie version came piled high with spinach, lettuce, carrots, taro root, varietal mushrooms, and tofu. Just fyi, the regular-​size portion was more than plentiful for a full meal… not sure what the large portion would entail.
The dragon roll was really fresh and tasty, and presented quite nicely.
The ice cream choice included either green tea flavor or strawberry flavor. We opted to order one of each, but neither was good, in my opinion. There was a very strong gelatinous texture to the ice cream, which is pretty unusual to actually taste. Not a pleasant experience for my taste buds. A bite of each was enough.
Our server was super attentive, friendly, and helpful in making decisions. Perhaps the establishment read prior Unilocal reviews, but they’ve definitely corrected whatever customer service flaws they had in the past. Our experience was flawless.

The cute bubble letters and chic décor had me fooled.
Intrigued by the appearance of this restaurant, I used my friend’s birthday as the perfect opportunity to check it out. Bad decision! The service was outrageously slow and they didn’t have liquor even tho their walls were lined with bottles of sake and beer. What gives?! Such a tease.
Our server was super forgetful– everything we asked for, we had to ask for twice. We got the AYCE and at most places, they keep the meat coming but she would disappear for a good 20minutes at a time to lord knows where (the place is not even that big). Getting another plate of beef is like pulling teeth!
Dinner took us a lifetime and made us late for our after dinner plans. The food was not memorable and borderline awful. Like everyone else mentioned, rice was weird, sauce dishes were teeny and they ran out of many of the things that we asked for.
Won’t ever be back again. If you’re looking for a good sabu time, this is not the place to go– just suck it up and wait in line at Shabu House!