Reviews for Shabu Zen in Boston, MA
Great experience. We love hot pot. This is Japanese hot pot, great tasting meat. Broth is incredibly bland. No flavor to it at... all. It's $7-9 extra to add tum yum flavor or the other flavors. They bring bean paste, hot oil, chives and garlic you can addto the broth, but it's still not the best. Portion size was good. Decently priced. Read more
It was my first time for my wife and me trying hot pot, i can tell it was a funny yummy experience. The food is delicious and... service is amazing, overall it was a good experience and will do again for sure. Read more
The Japanese hot pot experience here was super fun and quality of food was excellent. We took the seafood platter with miso hot... pot, everything was delicious! Read more
This was my first hot pot experience. Overall it was very good and just enough space on the table for everything, and they kept... coming by and clearing off the empty platters. It was a hot plate built into the table and a short wide pot the servers broughtover. We got the basic stuff because it was our first time. It was lunch time on a weekday so it was quiet which we were gladabout, it meant the servers weren't spread too thin and were nice/patient with us. The food was presented nicely and the brothtasted good. The food all cooked very fast, in seconds actually. I enjoyed it. But I think it would be a better idea to haveyour first hot pot experience be the all you can eat somewhere instead so you're not killing your wallet doing an experiment andmaking costly mistakes. But if you're a hot pot pro, then this is a good spot for you. Read more
Had Shabu here with a friend and it was delicious! We ordered the mushroom broth, highly recommend. Loved the flavor!
Great experience and delicious hot pot every time! The restaurant isn?t anything fancy but service is good and food is always... consistent and great. Highly recommend - overall a great value. Read more
This was our first time at a do-it-yourself hot pot restaurant and the staff was very kind and helpful in explaining the process... and recommending popular options. The food was all fresh and delicious. The chocolate truffle we ordered for dessert was amazingand they even gave us free mochi ice cream! I'd rate higher than 5 stars if I could. Read more
Average hot pot place with good toppings in small portions. My friends and I initially came in looking for a Japanese shabu... shabu, but it seemed like the hot pots here were closer to Chinese ones. The default dipping sauces on the table were also forChinese hot pots, so we ended up ordering a mix of the tonkatsu broth and the Mongolian spicy broth. Even the tonkatsu broth wasslightly different from the ones I?ve had in Tokyo, but both were good nonetheless. For the toppings, we got the prime meatcombo, seafood platter, and the vegetable delight. The quality of the meats was superb as advertised, but the portion was toosmall to share between the three of us. The seafood platter was slightly better, but without the vegetables, we would?ve leftthe restaurant with an empty stomach. Given the price, we were hoping for better portions but ended up trying to fill ourstomachs with extra vegetables that came out with the seafood and the meat combo. Since Chinatown has several hot pot placeswith better deals, I would recommend going to those places if you?re not specifically looking for the tonkatsu broth. Shabu zenmay offer better alternative to Japanese shabu, but overall it won?t be worth the extra cost. Read more