Q: positive

A: Great lunch food! I especially like the spicy pork bulgogi--a generous portion and lots of flavor. Maybe not the best thing to eat on a hot summer day (the spiciness will overheat you for sure) but it sure tastes good. Lunchtime is crowded and loud, but not unpleasantly so.

Q: negative

A: Was hoping to add a restaurant to the "close to home, works for the whole family for dinner" category, but HuHot won't be in the rotation. Positives: Service was perfectly friendly, and the kids liked watching the guys at the grill. My 12 year old still fits the kid category for a $4.99 stir-fry. These are the things that saved it from 1 star overall. The rest: The food is pretty bad-- one star for sure. First I put something together based on pork and one of their spiciest sauce combinations. Whether it was the meat or the prep, the pork was like leather (my wife compared hers to beef jerky) and the sauce could best be described as "gooey" (my wife's teriyaki was best described as "salty"). I then tried a bit of chicken with a Pad Thai sauce-- the chicken had the same unidentifiable (as chicken) texture, and the sauce was similar in its gooiness to the first sauce. Here's the clencher-- my 7 year old declared the chicken strips the worst he's ever had. And this kid has looooow standards when it comes to chicken strips. As compared to Flat Top Grill at Hilldale (which to me always tastes good, fresh, and healthy), HuHot fails miserably. Too bad Hilldale is too far to drive when two kids are hungry, and they don't have the requisite nuggets, cheese pizza, or corn dogs for the 7 year old...

Q: negative

A: Came here for Christmas dinner with my mother. Big mistake. 7 o'clock and they were packed! I couldn't believe it. We waited 20 mins for a table (which we didn't mind, we were in no rush). After getting our drinks, we ordered some guacamole and chips as our appetizer. We waited and waited, finally, like 20 minutes later watery guacamole (it looked like pea soup) and the WORST tortilla chips came out. The chips were so stale we couldn't finish our one bite they were also soaked in grease. We spit it out and told our waitress. She brought us new chips that were not much better, but edible. We kept the soupy guac, as we hated to complain...they were so busy we just blew that off. I got the bruschetta chicken pasta but asked for shrimp instead of chicken. I don't do dairy, so asked for no cheese. Waitress said no problem. Mom got a ribeye steak and shrimp with sweet potato fries. The food came after 35 minutes. My pasta with extra cheese. Ugh...and 4 of the rawest shrimp sitting on top. Sent it back because I can't eat cheese. Waitress brought a new one without cheese. I like my shrimp well done, or at least cooked to a healthy and safe temp. She brought the new pasta, it was ice cold. Then she took back the shrimp and left the pasta! So the cold pasta was left to get even colder while they fixed the shrimp. Then when she brought the shrimp they had to microwave my dinner to get it hot again...resulting in it being dryer than dry. Ekkk. Moms steak was served in a pool of butter and grease. Literally. She used all the napkins at the table to sop it all up. Some of her fries were wet and mushy from the butter. And the shrimp was missing from her plate! After asking several times they finally brought it. Nothing special. Just shrimp. We used a coupon buy one get on free. They charged us 6$ for my four raw shrimp. It was ridiculous. Yes, it was Christmas, but really? This experience should have been better. Even for Christmas night. I don't think we will be back.

Q: negative

A:
Can't review this place as I walked in and was told a 45 minute wait. I am sure the food must be good but I honestly won't wait 45 minutes for anything to eat. No matter how good something is there always is another option...this time it was Feast Buffet at Santa Fe.