text: After reading reviews from fellow yelpers Rockne H and Michael K I knew I had to try this placennIf you are looking for an all you can eat buffet style place to eat then this will be a great choice for you If you love a great deal on seafood this is the place If you like Hot and Juicy Crawfish this is the placennIf you are used to eating at Shabu Shabu Paradise then you need to shift your perspective a bit Shabu Grill is heavily influenced by a Chinese all you can eat style and a traditional Shabu Shabu place is more Japanese More on that laternnQuestions Be sure to ask the wait person everything Where are the sauces how to make them the dessert the salad and how you pick the items Items are in refrigerators on the bar counter and in different sections This is totally self service with exception of drinks and clean up Think casino buffet and it will give you an ideannPrice At for Dinner or for Lunch this is not the least expensive place to eat but certainly it has value nnQuality The quality of the food is outstanding From the Veggies the seafood the meats and the additional items there is a huge assortment of very fresh and very enticing choices For the meats you have lamb pork chicken beef pork belly For the seafood you get octopus squid mussels clams fish head crabs crab legs crawfish shrimp fish ball fish dumpling and possibly a few more that I did not keep track of The best for me was the veggies I like a ton of veggies in my meal Plenty of bok choy and another green veggie called tung ho which is a cooking chrysanthemum that is great in a soup and it is great in soup Besides this you have mushrooms pumpkin taro tofu skin corn and spinach nnThe broth Whereas in other Shabu places you would get to have water or a sukiyaki style sauce to cook here you have either chicken broth and or a heavily spiced hot broth to cook your food in Certainly different than my normal experience yet I was excited to try the hot broth as i enjoy a bit of spice nnThe sauces On the bar area they have all the sauces There are about different types of sauces you can help yourself with and they have about condiments to add to these sauces like jalapeufos ginger garlic green onion cilantro and etc Very cool and you can customize your sauce to your taste and heat levelnnBe prepared If you ever ate at a Mongolian Grill or something like Ghengis grill where you get to pick all your ingredients and bring it to the cook who fries it on a large iron grilling table then this is what you can expect with Shabu Grill When I say there is that Chinese influence it is easier for me to describe how it is not Japanese In a traditional Japanese Shabu Shabu restaurant you have subtlety in everything Delicacy and simplicity is key The broth is to compliment to meat and the dipping sauces are light and not overpowering In general everything is designed refined and presented in a manner to enhance the dining experience and to enjoy the flavors and the natural food itself Here at Shabu Grill I am saying that you can create this as well if you are really good at it and you can also go hog wild crazy and create some mixtures of meat veggies and seafood that are way different and cool too nnI really like this place for what it is and just be sure that you are not going to go in thinking this is a traditional Shabu Shabu Japanese restaurant To me this is more Chinese Hot Pot but it is still good just different that is all This place is an oddity to me It is both chic and divey casual and high end The style of this place and the ambiance is about as simple and confusing as the food is That makes it cool if you want something differentnnIf you are really hungry or very food specific this can be a great place for you to trynnI will be back with the kids they will enjoy this for surennGK says check it out