Great food and drinks, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese blend dishes. Reasonably priced. They have boba drinks too. Boiling plates are great, most dishes are pretty sizable for 2.
The recommendations from the waitress for what hot pot that I might like best was spot on. I’ve been to many hot pot restaurants before, so I knew what to expect. The food is not cooked when it is brought out, everything is raw and must be cooked in the pot. This can take about 12 to 15 minutes. They light the flame once delivered. With some thought by management regarding the ordering process, the cook time to boil for the hot pot options, could be reduced.The Tonkatsu broth was wonderful, as was the udon noodles, two imitation crab meat sticks, two quail eggs and a few other pieces. My family also ordered the House Special with beef hot pot, extra udon noodles and the Beef hot pot.I like that the waitresses help each other’s sections and refilled drinks regularly. While our main waitress asked if we wanted to order anything extra during the initial ordering process, each waitress came by to ask the same thing. Asking if we wanted drinks, appetizers or more food four times was a bit much on the up-sale situation.I get it, they have a full bar and that’s where they will make the bigger margins.I look forward to coming back again and trying what they have on offer for Happy Hour.
Trang has been one of the best servers I've ever had in my life. She did not only make and bartend are boba drink but as well was very knowledgeable about the menu take care of the first time customers. Please take your time to come and check out the bowling avenue. Thank you Trang
Friday night at 7pm and I got seated immediately. Kimchi Fried Rice for $10 with enough portions that I can eat the remainder tomorrow. Servers popped by every few minutes to check on me and refill my water. I waited less than 10 minutes for my food to arrive. Modern music playing in the background, good atmosphere. Most of the other customers were college students talking about classes.
Boiling avenue is an awesome experience. Watching the ramen cook directly in front of you is fun, the staff will keep your broth topped off, and they just have a fantastic selection of flavors and additives. For the non ramen folks, the menu has a few really good traditional items as well. If you're looking for a nice, long meal to sit with friends and family, have gossip time, ect, this is the place.
The food was bland. Do not order the pork belly with quail eggs. A huge disappointment. It is not authentic. As for the Ramen hot bowls, nothing special. What you can make here you can make at home. I guess people like the experience.
First time having a hot pot. Really didn't know what to expect. It's kind of like the Melting Pot, with hard Ramen noodles. Had to ask the waitress to turn off the flame as our pot continued to boil our food. Ordered a Boba tea but they didn't have Boba. Gyoza and calamari appetizers were pretty good. The pieces of duck in the duck bowl were all the bony bits - more bone than meat. The plum sauce was tasty. Inside decor wasn't anything spectacular. Overall decent experience
Boiling avenue is an awesome experience. Watching the ramen cook directly in front of you is fun, the staff will keep your broth topped off, and they just have a fantastic selection of flavors and additives. For the non ramen folks, the menu has a few really good traditional items as well. If you're looking for a nice, long meal to sit with friends and family, have gossip time, ect, this is the place.
The tl;dr version: their online reservation system doesn't work, and the food takes an eternity to arrive and be cooked, but other than that the restaurant is pretty good. Full review below...I hate leaving negative reviews for local shops like this, and maybe I caught them on an off day, but they really need to work out some issues.1) Both Google and their website offers an online reservation system. I tried it and it sent off a request to somewhere for "approval." I thought I was set, but when arriving at the restaurant, I was told that they only take reservations on the phone. Ended up on the waitlist for 30 mins for a table. Not the best start, but fine.2) Probably took a good 10 minutes after being seated before anyone came by with water.3) Placed our order and waited around 30 minutes for it to arrive. When the food gets to us, I find that everything is completely uncooked, the broth is lukewarm, and now I have to wait at least another 10 minutes for it to reach boiling temperature and for ingredients to cook. What is up with this. Every other hot pot place I've been to delivers the pot to you with the pot already boiling or near-boiling, so you can usually start to dig right in. So I really found myself questioning why in the world it took a kitchen 30 minutes to throw a bunch of raw vegetables into a lukewarm broth.To be fair to the restaurant, it was a Saturday night, the place was full, and it seemed like the wait staff were a bit stretched thin. Don't know what the kitchen was like.The food and drinks, after they eventually made their way to us and got cooked, were pretty good, flavorful, and seemed authentic. Prices are fair with good serving sizes. And the wait staff were friendly and helpful. The restaurant decor itself is also very neat and pretty. My gripe was that this became almost a 2-hour dining experience when it really could have and should have been much less. I could easily have put together my own hot pot meal at home in much less time than that, though admittedly I wouldn't be able to make as good of a broth. Still wasn't worth the wait though.
This place is really delicious! They offer individual hot pots (and allow you to sub out up to 3 items in the same price range). Honestly the sesame tonkotsu is heavenly. Their teas are tasty and refreshing, the kumquat honey green tea really surprised me.