The best sechuan hot pot broth!! Staff is very attentive. Fair pricing and cheaper for à la carte…read morecompared to other hot pot places in the area. Overall very affordable and delicious would recommend

Solid Szechuan hotpot place in Austin…read more Not AYCE style, which I liked, but keep in mind that sauces are extra ($5/person when we went).

Great food and excellent service. The staff was friendly and attentive, and everything we ordered…read morewas delicious. We'll definitely be back!

Why pick just one when you can have both? A pot of Q and Korean BBQ all in one spot..how…read moreconvenient! We tried both, and I'm leaning towards Korean BBQ. They had a fantastic variety of veggies and quality meats to choose from. I went with the Tom Yum for my Q pot flavor, and it was okay. Maybe next time, I'll ask them to skip the tomatoes. It throws the Tom Yum flavor off. The meat was good and the salad bar had a great selection but the food seemed a bit scarce. Perhaps because we went an hour before closing. There were still a few slices of watermelon and orange left. Be sure to try the shrimp and crawfish mix. I had attempt to go for seconds but when I came back, there was not much to get. The customer service was fantastic and very attentive. I'll definitely be back when I'm in town to give it another try..maybe a bit earlier so there's still plenty of food at the bar.

Update August 2025: Sad day when I heard that DipDipDip was finally closing their doors. So I took…read moreone last hurrah to see if anything had changed since my visit 6 years ago. Glad to say they ended on a high note. Atmosphere: Tatsuya always nails the theming with that street Japanese style decor. This one certainly was one of the most stand outs complete with Japanese style kitchen cabinets and stylistic art. Food: If I recall the menu's did change a bit, I recall them having this flip over style but now they opted for a more simplistic one sheet style menu. With that said I ended up with the Sukiyaki, delicious. With some flank and A5 meats so I could experience all styles, this combined with the bit of truffle dipping, so so so good. Service: Per most Tatsuya places, friendly and quick service. Don't be sad it's over be happy it happened... is what I would say if I knew this is the end but it's not, because the Tatsuya staff announced they had something happening in the works, so I know this is just another chapter. Looking forward to that whatever that is.

Found this place randomly when I was trying to find a restaurant with my parents. We all ordered…read morethe multi course omakase and it was just cheap ingredients for a Japanese style hot pot where they talk your ear off for every plate that comes out. My parents barely speak English, so kind of wasn't necessary to teach us how to dip the stuff in hot water for each thing. You can upgrade to a premium plate on some of the courses which is absurd since the bill came out to be over $100 per person and we didn't order drinks!! No one should have to pay this much for boiled food. Even the normal menu was kind of over priced. The only redeeming part of this was the interior was nicely decorated to a bamboo Japanese style. But that shouldn't matter with all else.

It's been a hot minute since I've had AYCE Kbbq and hot pot. Let's just say I came here HUNGRY and…read moreleft very satisfied. I was honestly surprised it wasn't crowded when we went on a Sunday around 6pm. The only thing you would really order with the server is your hotpot soup base and drinks. Everything else including the appetizers is self serve. I liked how everything is nicely organized and labeled. I was also surprised by how clean the staff kept the self serve area. For the food, I went with the miso soup base which was nice and light, exactly what I was hoping for. They have a great selection of ingredients at food stations. You can best believe I added a ton of lotus root to my hot pot! I'm glad the banchan dishes were self serve too because I always ask the server for multiple rounds of it at other Korean restaurants. For the meats, there is a marinated meats section and a frozen meats section, both with plenty of options. I do want to also highlight the sauce station. It was honestly sauce heaven for my husband with so many different sauces and garnishes. He loves making his own sauce and was able to experiment with a variety of combos. Overall, this was a great experience and we will definitely return in the future.

First time here since it's new name, new owners and new restaurant style. Dam-a is an ayce hotpot…read moreand kbbq restaurant. I made a reservation online but when we arrived there was no wait. They also have a wait-list tablet at the hostess stand. We were greeted and seated immediately. The server asked if we'd been there before and since we had not, she explained the menu and where to get the food. We picked our hot pot broth and then went to the buffet area for all the hot pot and kbbq meats, seafood and veggies. There's also an appetizer bar. I enjoyed the japchae, chicken wings, spring rolls, pickled radish and kimchi. There is a great sauce bar too. I had the mushroom broth and he had the seafood broth with a small side of the mala broth. The broths were delicious, and there was so much to choose from on the buffet. We had servers check in with us frequently and topped off our broth when needed. I made sure I saved room for the complimentary coffee, desserts and soft serve ice cream. We really enjoyed our food and service so we will definitely be back.

I recently moved to Austin in 2023. I found a gem tucked away in the back of the HMart food…read morecourt next to the hair salon. Narrow Street 512 serves up Authentic Korean food with a personal touch. It feels like you're eating a home cooked meal at your Aunt's home in Korea. I experienced Narrow Street as a solo diner. My go-to dish I order 90 percent of the time I go there is the Chadol Plate (A3). It is beef brisket. You normally need to go to a KBBQ spot and get covered in a layer of smoke. Skip smelling like a campfire and get A4 at Narrow Street. The beef brisket comes with rice served in a metal bowl. You get 3 or four small plastic containers of banchan the rotates seasonally. There is a variety of different kimchi, fish cake, corn slaw, potato salad and more. Once in a while I like to switch it up and I order the Cold Noodles (F1) or squid and pork stir fry (A4). The cold noodles are refreshing with crisp cucumber, white radish kimchi, and korean pear. The noodles are bouncy with a nice chew. Great in Summer and Winter. The Squid and pork stir fry comes with a bowl of rice and it is quite spicy. It is spicier than average but still less spicy than Thai chili. The chewy squid and pork are nicely complemented with the crunchy stir fried cabbage. Once you taste it you can't stop eating it. The price at Narrow Street very reasonable for what you get in my opinion. It is sit down restaurant quality food in a fast casual setting. You can dine solo or go in a big group as there is plenty of seating at the Hmart Food court. You place your order at the counter and they give you a buzzer to alert you to go pick up your trays of food. The Korean ladies who work there are super friendly and will help you make your menu selection if you have any questions. I've been a dedicated regular since 2023. Narrow Street is my go-to for my Korean food fix!

*Sigh,* I don't mean this to be a knock on H-Mart or on food courts but this place has made it on…read moreMANY a list for best Korean food in Austin...I think that's more of an indictment on the Korean food scene in Austin than this place. With all that being said, the food here is serviceable. It's fine, you're getting food court Korean food so if you temper your expectations. You'll get a little a tiny amount of like two banchan. My Yookgaejang was mild-ain't no other way of putting it. You can tell that the broth wasn't cooked with gochujang so you didn't get that rich, spicy flavor. Another visit I got the bibim naengmyun and it also just didn't quite get there. Just a little on the plainer side, not just talking about the lack of heat.

basil thai never misses!! my friends and i come here all the time. the portions are humongous,…read moreespecially the hot pots and dry pots, and i love the build-your-own options. there's a wide variety of veggies and meats to choose from, and the protein portions are always sooo generous. the prices are on the higher side, but one pot is easily big enough for two people to share. their mala dry pot is properly spicy and numbing without being too greasy or salty. the curries and lemongrass sizzling plates do lean a little sweeter, though. service is incredibly fast and super friendly, and i leave in a food coma state every single time :D

Have eaten here around 10 times over the past several years. Out of town family really enjoys this…read moreplace. Last night was very disappointing for many reasons. The hot pots were all good as werethe appetizers. The noodle dishes were truly lousy. Tasted bad and didn't taste like what they were supposed to according to several people in the party and I tried one of the dishes and I would agree completely. Of the six hot pots that we had five of them did not have the right ingredients based on what was checked off on the order slip. Really surprising and odd. I don't know if people aren't reading the order slips carefully or don't know some of the ingredients. Like I said odd. Biggest complaint was that my daughter-in-law's food came after everyone else had finished. Truly. No exaggeration. I asked three times where her food was and I was told three times by the same female server that it was coming. Turns out she forgot to put the order in. Inexcusable that this meal was not credited and given for free. I will go back to this place, but it is clearly in need of improvement.

This is definitely one of my favorite places in Austin for Asian food and soup dumplings…read more Definitely need to make a reservation because this place is small and always packed. When you arrive, everybody is so nice you give them your name and they get you seated right away. I ordered a drink called a signature tingling Daisy and it was so good. I definitely could've had so many but I was driving so you gotta pace yourself. We started off with the soup dumplings, which are just phenomenal. It's a must when you go. Also, for appetizers, we got the spicy cucumbers which were divine and a hot and sour soup, which was perfectly balanced and not watery. We also got a beef fried rice and let me tell you that rice is so soft and delicious. You literally dream about it the next day. I also got the pecking duck which is delicious there the skin is nice and crispy and the meat on it taste so good. We also got the Kung pow shrimp with cashews, which was delicious and the pieces of shrimp were gigantic. We also got the green beans which is were delicious. I love ordering green beans when they're cooked just like the ones I posted in the photo. Then for dessert, we got the chocolate mousse which is that little dog cake. I know it's so cute and they made it a little hard to eat because you feel bad in a weird sense. It was delicious now I will say when cutting it and realizing the inside had a raspberry filling, made it a little more crazy cause it looked like blood, but it was still so good. This place is definitely an awesome staple and a must visit when you're in town or just always go and have food there whether it's date night or friends catching up or anything in general even on your own.

I made a reservation for two on Resy and discovered when we got there that it was for the bar for…read moresome reason. This could have been my mistake but I don't remember any choice in the matter. The greeter wasn't very friendly and borderline surly when I asked for more details about how to not book the bar in the future. Didn't get any explanation but fortunately, we won't have to worry about that... The food was just awful. We ordered 3-4 types of dimsum (onion pancake, soup dumplings, chu shou, fried shu mae) and three entries (orange beef, eggplant and their take on ma pao tofu) for the best tasting experience. The curry sauce for the onion pancake was probably the most flavorful dish of the night sadly. The onion pancake was way way over fried-- hard as a rock. If that's their take on onion pancake... well, it's just wrong. The soup dumplings were passable but a bit doughie and the filling was full of a lot of noticeable coagulated fat -- not clear and broth-y, with light surface droplets of oil as all delicious broths. My wife enjoyed the chu shou -- I found the filling much too overcooked and tough -- difficult to eat with chop sticks. Like a tough, overcooked meatball. The fried shu Mae were just plain inedible. My wife and I each ate one and left the rest. The included sauce was basic and too heavy. And again, over fried. There was a huge delay between our apps and our mains, like 40 minutes or so. Various bar staff apologized. It wasn't a big deal, we were in a good conversation and they were super busy but our mains were not at all worth waiting for. Small portions. WAY over sauced. WAY too salty. WAY too sweet. No distinct flavors at all. The ma pao didn't seem to have any Szechuan pepper at all. How do you miss that ? The plating of the eggplant dish was really creative but I don't eat with my eyes and it came with no instruction -- my first bite was just flavorless steamed eggplant cube -- second was mixed with one note sauce. One of the better mains IMO but it was still gloopy and pretty gross. Wife did not enjoy it. The orange beef was essentially just six or seven cubes of tough, fatty beef covered in over-the-top bitter orange peel. We each had a cube and left the rest. Honestly, give me Panda Express any day over this abject failure of a restaurant. Austin needs more Chinese but if it's anything like this place, forget it. I'd rather spend a 4h round trip to Houston and go to even a mediocre Chinese restaurant than endure another meal at this place. What a waste of $165. Edit: I wish I was making this up but I literally had to pull over to throw up on the side of the road on the way home. The food did not sit well with me. I have no underlying health conditions, am not on any medicine that would have this as a side effect and only shared one beer with my wife. It was just a very, very, disappointing and gross meal.

everything was fabulous tonight! from being welcomed and seated to our wonderful waiter Nate and of…read morecourse the delicious food! Nate was great! He was friendly, attentive and courteous! We look forward to having him serve us next time!

I dropped the ball with this review, I was too excited to try this place finally that I didn't get…read moreany details on much to give a proper review so please just enjoy the pictures! One thing I can say for sure is this place was perfect! Delicious food and very cozy. Perfect for date night! Also service was excellent!