Tokyo Japan Buffet - Houston

First timer on this restaurant. They do have a great variety of Sushi . They also have this Hotpot area where you can prepare your own food, will try it next time. Based on previous reviews, I am agree in regards decoration, and careless about not removing some unnecessary items like a ladder at the entrance, or a vacuum in the host boot.

Good news— Tokyo is back with the same amazing tempura shrimp and perfectly cooked green beans. Bad news—besides the same tired decor, that’s where the similarities end. Disclaimer—this is the only place I have eaten/tried hotpot. And I realized.I’m not a fan. For $28 (weekend buffet and $14.99 weekday lunch buffet you, too, can sit at a table and basically make your own soup until you just get tired of doing so. No thanks. Select broth, spice level, proteins and they bring them to you. Get up to pick items (veggies, etc. to add. Sadly, the broths were flavorless. Even the spiciest was just oily, not even hot. It took more than two years for Tokyo to come back from the pandemic. Every week, I would drive by hoping they were revamping or working on something fabulous. Nope. You’ll see even the same plastic flowers in the same exact place. It’s like they don’t even care. I m nowhere near the place for lunch those fabulous green beans and shrimp tempura. Hopefully, their hotpot game has stepped up, as we went their first weeekend they opened.

I havent been here since it closed down due to covid. First time trying it after reopening and i am not dissapointed. The add on of the hotpot is nice. You get a couple diff selections of premium meats in addition to the sushi and other hot prepared foods. The price is cheap actually if you figure it out you get diff varieties of food. Not the original menu but what can you do covid changed the world and businesses everywhere have to change a bit. Bunch of karens leaving 1 stars. In my opinion.

Extremely disappointing, if you like hotpot, I'm sure you can get something out of going here, but if you're not adept at cooking, or looking for a buffet to eat at, stay far far away. A few years ago, my family and I used to frequent this location, it had wonderful sushi (for a buffet restaurant), juicy and tasty meats and the likes, and an infinite supply of crab legs. However, this place shutdown awhile ago, and to my surprise, had its grand opening not too long ago, me and my family were excited to try it again, but that excitement was in vain. A 2 out of 5 stars is a bit of an understatement, but I don't want to give my favorite restaurant of the past a 1/5, since the original vision is kind of still here, just clouded. Half of the buffet used to be sushi, now it is just a small part, with only a few sushi rolls. The crab legs are also gone, and the dessert was both flavorless and dry sadly. The meats and tempura are still there, but something felt off about them, maybe a bit less flavor? It could just be me remembering wrong. The service was decent, our waiter did not know the proper cooking times for shrimp, and there weren't any temperatures listed, only 1-4 temperatures. The waiter did however come to our aid frequently, and delivered food and drinks better than most places. Some tips for the restaurant: Please put up a sign on how to make a good tasting hotpot, I've never heard of hotpot before coming here, and was very confused and tried too many things, making the soup taste awful, the same for my entire family. Perhaps it is my fault for not doing research, but I found a few other families struggling to choose what may or may not taste good, and with how expensive this restaurant is, trial and error may not be an option for everybody. Maybe put up some beginner and advanced recipes for making a good hotpot, and put up times to cook the seafood and meat at, I cannot see how this is legal, but there's no sign on how long to heat up anything, nor are there temperatures on the heaters. Choose if you want to become a hotpot restaurant or a buffet place, since skating between the two will do nothing but put you out of business. The buffet has been nearly halved to what it originally was, and the new hotpot design doesn't feel very thought out, with key ingredients being completely left out.

Visited here for the first time on their grand opening, the food is great, and great for family gathering and the staff, waiters are very friendly and attention to their customers. Highly recommended.