The set up was very different compared to the San Gabriel location we went to a week prior. Most of the items were self serve with the exception of sliced lamb and beef which they automatically place on your table as soon as your broth arrives. We actually preferred the efficiency of the service. Although there were only two servers - their jobs were really just to keep the meat coming so we never had to wait long between rounds. There were no papers to fill out or to be collected. No veggies or side orders to follow up. You need anything other than sliced lamb or beef? Go get it yourself. Although the spread was plentiful, the self serve station can be better maintained. There were so many flies lurking around. And the layers of grease built up found at the soda machine - I will take the water instead please. Overall - $23 plus tax and tip per person - not a bad option to battle the Canadian cold. read more

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I used to come here before the renovation and loved it - the price point, the soup base. Since the renovation, they're gotten rid of the free refillable pop, water and herbal drink. They've also changed the soup base which I didn't like. They give you an option to pay an extra $5 to upgrade to AAA lamb or beef. We didnt upgrade and found the meat to be pretty fatty. Service was good. If you are using a groupon, beware its cash only and a 12% service charge was charged automatically (we were only 2 ppl). Overall, because I didnt love the flavour of the broth, I wouldnt come back. I honestly prefer BSG hotpot instead. read more

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This is my absolute favourite hotpot place of all times and I have hosted numerous get-together here! Location: 4.5/5 It is so close to where my beau lives! Must be fate! It is not too far from Warden and Finch, so it is pretty accessible for those living in Scarborough! Decor/Ambience: 4.5/5 I love the sheep emblems all over the restaurant, because my Chinese zodiac is a sheep!! They have tables with small, individual pots and they have tables for larger pots for those who likes to share. They mostly have marbled tables for 4, but you can easily have parties of 12-16 by having everyone sitting near each other in small groups of 4 or one of the bigger tables at the back! I love hosting parties here during the winter time! Food quality: 4.5/5 It would be great like my foodie best friend suggested if they had yam or shiitake noodles, but they have a wide open buffet selection of AYCE veggies, noodles, eggs, and seafood balls!! For meat or seafood, you have to personally request for them and they would happily come and serve you plates of food at a time. I had many shrimps, mussel, fish fillet, baby cuttlefish and full size, octopus, lettuce, needle mushroom, and a ton of veggies!! The soup base was so clear, herbal and healthy! You can get mix or spicy, too! They now have aluminum containers for all of their smaller side items that are ready to eat on its own such as mantao, spring rolls, cold noodles, so it's much more hygienic now. They have free soy milk, endless amount of water with lemon or plum juice, and a dozen sauces at the counter, too, and this is why this place is like heaven for me!! Do not expect the finest grade of food here or the best service. This place is more for friends and families to come in affordable group gatherings and not for lavish hotpot parties. Service: 3.5/5 They mostly speak Mandarin to you the moment you look remotely Asian, even if you speak English among your friends. I overheard a staff having a hard time speaking on the phone with a Cantonese customer, who wanted to make a dinner reservation. Could not help but shake my head in mute laughter at the struggles, since I can speak English, Cantonese and Mandarin albeit not entirely fluent, but still I can pass. Otherwise, it is a self-serve buffet style AYCE hotpot, so go and serve your stomach to your heart's content!! Nothing is stopping you from having a good time here! Value: 5/5 I just came here for lunch yesterday and my oh my! It only cost my friend and I, $20 each for AYCE hotpot! What a wonderful deal!! Still, this is more of a dinner party for me, so I will be back with my army of friends!! They have much more options during dinner and weekends of course, but for $20, the food was AWESOME! So blessed to have this hotpot restaurant so close to where I live! Overall: 4.5/5 I am not here for the service. My friends and I have no problem serving ourselves and we love it here!! read more

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I've been here twice. First time, it was tolerable. But second time around, it just went downhill :( Most people I know seems to love this place. But I hope I can shed some light on why this restaurant would deserve a 2-star. The first time I've ever heard of Little Lamb was in Hong Kong. Not only did they offer all-you-can-eat hot pot, it was also a place for delicious dim sum! So far, so good. (1st Review - April 2012) About a year ago, my friends started mentioning Little Lamb Hot Pot in Toronto, and I was really intrigued to give it a try. I guess it was during a weekday, there were plenty of tables available, no one was bumping shoulders, and it was a good environment to catch up with friends. I enjoy that you can go out to the open fridge and buffet table to select what you want - from appetizers and entree items to drinks and desserts. As for the meat, you can order through the waiter as many plates as you want. They actually give you a decent portion. You order a plate of lamb, you get a plate of lamb. (Unlike other hot pot places, where you order 10 plates, you only get ONE or none at all!) The meats were thinly sliced, and the lamb meat actually marbles! By far, the best lamb I've ever had in a hot pot setting. At this point, I'd say this restaurant deserves at least a 3-star. Here comes the not-so-good part (This includes my 2nd review - December 2012). - The open fridge and buffet bar get quite messy. All I can think in my mind was the cross-contamination. A lot of the items in the open fridge were frozen. Few hours down the road, everything would defrost. And so, items would be soaked in tubs of water, and water would drip into the containers below (**warning sign!**) - Floors were WET... either they were from spills or because it was during winter time. I actually slipped and fell. I bruised my arm from knocking on the edge of the buffet table. The staff did not give a sh*t. Did not bother mopping the floor because they were too "busy". Did not even bother putting out a wet caution sign. - It was extremely packed during winter time, like sardines packed. The ventilation was REALLY BAD... actually I don't even know if they have ventilation or if they are actually working. All I saw was fogs and smokes everywhere - this is ridiculous! So, let me conclude that you should ONLY come here on weeknights + definitely NOT during the winter. After the final review, I don't even think the restaurant deserves a 2-star... but I'll give it for the thinly sliced, marbled lamb. read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Hot pot time -best lamb ever! - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

[LOCATION] - 4/5 This place is located at a plaza on Warden Ave. and Finch Ave. E. There were lots of parking spaces out front. [SERVICE] - 2/5 Host and the first server who greeted us were good. However, when we ordered additional platters of meat, we asked 2-3 servers until we received them. We also had to remind another server twice for napkins. [DÉCOR] - 2/5 The self-serve concept was kind of cool. There was a wall of veggies, meatballs, other miscellaneous items, and drink dispensers for soft drinks, soy milk, and plum juice. [QUALITY] - 2/5 Meats were average, quality of self-serve food was below average and kind of disappointing. Little Sheep Specialty Soup base was good, but I personally do not like how each person got their own small pot of soup. The server did not even ask if we wanted one pot to share, even though that was an option and we would have been okay with waiting for a table. [ORDER] - 1/5 - Weekend AYCE Dinner - $23.99 + $1.00 per person for small pot of Little Sheep Specialty Soup Base: Meats were average, self-serve food was not that impressive. The only good items were the beef balls, lamb balls, and veggies. Drinks were also disappointing because the plum juice was warm and soya milk ran out a few times so we had to wait for servers had to replenish the dispenser. [OVERALL] - 1/5 Overall, I would not recommend Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot because the quality of food was mostly below average, and there were too many hiccups with the service. read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Weekend AYCE Dinner - $23.99 + $1.00 per small pot of Little Sheep Specialty Soup Base - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

A lot of variety in terms of veggies, meats, tofu, seafood and sauces. It's super busy so go with a reservation or else plan to wait 30 min ++ . The one downside is that their soup has herbally spices including goji berries and may not be to everyone's liking. The spicy soup is not very spicy. Service is typical and they do add gratuity to the bill. read more

Although this was one of the many times I've been to a Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot, it was my first time going to a Canadian one! We made a reservation for 6:30pm on a Saturday night, and our group sat at a long table with three half-and-half broth hot pots as well as lamb and beef slices, ready for some AYCE hot pot action. There was a self-serve hot pot ingredients area where you load up your plate with tofu, noodles, baby bok choy (gotta have the baby bok choy), lotus roots (^^), fish balls, and all the other typical hot pot assortments. There was also a sauce bar that consisted of the classic sesame paste, chili sauce, and other tasty/salty/interesting Asian sauces. We were very tired after a busy day that night, so we feasted until our stomachs were about to burst (but apparently there was room for boba afterwards... because apparently there's always room for boba, even after AYCE hot pot). Overall, the quality and variety of the hot pot ingredients were above average, the meat quality was satisfactory, and the service was polite and attentive with broth refills and bringing more plates of meat. NOTE: I don't think my clothes have ever smelled this much like hot pot after coming here! Maybe it's a Canadian hot pot thing eh? read more

Decent place for hot pot, but be prepared to smell a lot after. Do note that this place is usually quite busy. They also only take reservations for 6 or more people. So most of the food here is self-serve aside from the sliced meat (pork/beef/lamb). They have a good range of sauces (ex. Sesame, BBQ, chives, minced garlic, fermented bean paste...etc). They have two broth options (regular or spicy or split pot). My go-to is the regular. For hotpot, things I personally eat most are lamb, fungus, mushrooms, taro, lotus root, fish, wintermelon, radish and so on. The satay chicken is also pretty good. When I visited on Saturday, the sesame sauce was watered down. The drinks here are also watered down (soy milk is basically a ton of sugar). They have plum juice, soy milk and a range of carbonated fountain drinks. For dessert they have canned peaches, this sweet fungus dessert, fried buns with condensed milk...etc. Fried buns are alright if they're warm and shrimp chips are good if they're freshly made. My family comes here to get our lamb fix and veggies. Service here is decent since they refill your broth from time to time. They do sometimes forget to serve the meat that we order though depending on the person. Overall it's alright, you're here for hot pot so as long as there is a good variation of ingredients and it's fresh, you can't go wrong. read more

Little Sheep was our go to spot for AYCE hotpot and we were sad to see it close but apparently it was just a rebranding. One thing I noticed that changed was the reduced amount of seasoning/ingredients in the spicy broth. We usually come for lunch since my boyfriend literally only eats lamb (he gets like 5 plates) and some veggies. If you only care for the lamb/beef/pork then lunch is a great option since dinner is way pricier and a waste if you don't eat much from the buffet bar. Service is somewhat consistently good so no complaints there. We've tried a bunch of hotpot places but always end up coming back here as it has the perfect price to quality ratio. read more

One of the better AYCE hotpot places out there !! Ever since they did their renovations, I found the quality of the food and the service to be a lot better! The cleanliness of the food station was improved through the use of food containers. Definitely recommend getting the premium upgrade of $3 for the meat !! Totally worth it because we found that the regular meat was way too fatty for our liking. My favourite soup base is the sour and spicy one, although it is quite salty. Service is very friendly and fast, with servers always refilling water, replenishing the soup base, and taking orders of meat. They improved their dessert selection as well, as they now have fried mantou, fruit, mango cream, chocolate cream, cream puffs, and sesame balls! read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Upgrade to premium beef and lamb +$3 per person - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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Crazy busy the night we went. Luckily I had a reservation, but it still took a little while to get our seats. I like the downtown location of Little Sheep a little more than this one, but it's fairly standard hot pot. It's mostly self serve, but you do have to order the beef and lamb so you can get rationed. Love the individual pots, so you can dump in whatever you want and don't have to worry about your friend "stealing" your food, or if anyone has any kind of food allergies. Anyways, solid hotpot experience. read more

I hope my post can spread awareness amongst other potential customers to not to be cheated by a dishonest business or an uneducated ignorant waiter. We went to this location a few nights ago, and we upgraded our dinner to angus beef. The first batch came in perfect, not frozen, nice marbling, juicy even after over cooking, and was delivered by this cat robot. However, it was all downhill from there. The second batch, to my surprise, was hand delivered by a waiter named "Zhao", the guy with short yellow hair. It was frozen, no marbling (distinct division between red and white). Not only it didn't have that beefy taste, it was also dry and chalky, as if it was left in the fridge for an extensive amount of time. Then we asked Mr. Zhao if this is the meat was for the upgraded menu, he then confirmed. After we asked him to replace at least one of the plate with meat like the first batch, he stared at me, raised his voice a bit, and replied "who am I supposed to give these to?". He came back with three plates with, what supposed to be, different kind of beef that they sell. First one was just like the first batch which was perfect, second one was the one he took from our table, and the third one, he explains, is the one they sell to non upgraded customers (despite the fact that the third and second plate was basically the same, the second one had a little thicker white fat stripe, no marbling whatsoever). Then he went on to explain that the meat all came from the same chunk of meat, just that the first plate was the fattier half and the second plate was the lean half. I don't know if we all know what angus beef is. It is believed that most of angus breed produce more marbling than other breed, while angus beef can be as dry as the other meat, but if I upgraded, I believe it is not too much to ask for something that is different from the regular priced orders. While understanding most all-you-can-eat places start "cheating" after the first or second round, normally they just give less portion, but never down grade. Which leaves me the following questions for the owner and Mr. Zhao. 1. Do you know what marbling in meat means? Even the Chinese name of angus beef on the menu had the wording "snow flake" (which is what Chinese use to describe marbling). 2. If you knew, why were we served with such low quality meat on an upgraded order? 3. If Mr. Zhao's description is a perfect reflection of your supply chain and meat selling strategy, how do you differentiate between regular and upgraded meat? If you can't not guarantee marbling on your meat, please take off those wordings that would suggest such, it is very misleading, could lead to false advertisement claims. Furthermore, their tipping system is a weird one too. We were handed with a bill that has 12% tip already included, the reason was our group is 4 ppl or more. Tipping is NOT mandatory anywhere in Canada, while not tipping is considered rude according to the society norm, the amount should be up to the customer to decide. Under NO circumstances should any establishment bill you a fixed tip amount without giving you an alternative method to alter the amount, regardless of the size of your party and/or the nature of your business. Given our experience, I do feel this is not ethical, and paying 12% is definitely involuntary. I do hope more people would come forward with their encounters, good or bad, to help the business owner and other potential customers to avoid wasted time and money, not to mention a perfectly ruined mood. To others that have experienced unfortunate events, there are government agencies consumers can complaint to, such as, Consumer Protection Ontario https://www.ontario.ca/page/filing-consumer-complaint#section-1 , Toronto Public Health's food safety program https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness-care/health-programs-advice/food-safety/dinesafe/ , etc. Lastly, to the business owner, unprofessional staffs like Mr. Zhao will likely cost you more business rather than inviting more. Good luck. read more

The food was amazing! Limited options but will do. They also have a FREE BIRTHDAY PROMOTION.

Things I liked about happy lamb hotpot: New renovations Their mantau dessert (make sure to use the condensed milk in the squeeze bottles) Variety of seafood, veggies, and noodles - couldn't try everything before I got full Melona bars were nice touch at the end of the meal Reasonable price point ($26 per adult M-Th for dinner) Soup base was good Things that would make the experience better: Ice cream and better desserts Complimentary soy milk/drinks read more

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Great og hot pot spot with a lot of variety. I think I just like most hot Pot places and this ones a pretty solid location. read more

They don't take reservations after 6pm so be prepared to wait. Not bad. They added more broths. All the old items are still there. Pop isn't included in the AYCE price anymore. read more

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This is our first experience for Hot Pot. Along with the fact this is 1 of the few Hot Pot resto listed under Yelp for the Scarborough area. Service : servers could do better with their English comprehension. There isn't much to say on service due to this is a primarily a self-serve Hot Pot AYCE. The servers don't hover, but do check on your broth level if you need more. There are only 2 broths available, regular and spicy. We opted to get the 1/2 regular 1/2 spicy. We preferred the regular broth over the spicy. The broth was just ok, since they have a large sauce bar to choose from. Tho I'm not an expert at combining for a good sauce for dipping..what I did combine I didn't like so much (fermented bean paste + garlic + chive sauce + sesame paste (w/ground peanuts) + sesame oil + coriander). Something in that mixture made the end result salty. My wife's mixture was more palatable at least when I dipped into it (garlic + sesame paste (w/ground peanuts) + sesame oil). We got interested in Hot Pot due to Mikey Chen of Strictly Dumpling on Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXOKEdfOFxsHO_-Su3K8SHg Price per Adult on a Saturday is $22.00 CAD + HST. Seemed kinda expensive, but as compared to the US Hot Pot places that Mikey Chen had reviewed, $22.00 is a good price (not factoring in CAD - USD exchange) There is a large selection of items to choose from to cook in your broth. When you sit down you receive (2 plates of thinly sliced beef and 1 plate of thinly sliced lamb), we didn't opt for the beef or the lamb, since we're not big on red meat. There is also chicken & pork in the self-serve area. There is a good selection of "balls" (lobster/fish/cuttlefish/shrimp/etc). Decent variety of tofu along with various green veggie options & mushrooms/fungus, variety of different noodles. All in all we made a total of 6 trips for food to dump into our hot pot. There was also some cooked items available : spring rolls, a noodle dish, seaweed, steamed plain buns. Beverages : they have soft drinks on fountain along with in separate fountain dispensers (sweetened soy milk, lemon water, plum juice). The dessert options are fairly limited. Canned peaches, there was another dessert dish that I didn't recognize and it wasn't labelled either which was beside the sliced canned peaches. 2 pastry options and fried shrimp crackers. There was fresh quartered orange slices as well. It would have been nice to know the prices ahead of time. There was no posting near the entrance about prices along with no signs of means of what forms of payment they accept. I had to ask one of the staff what forms of payment they take and her English wasn't good..since it appeared that she was struggling with what I had asked. We'll likely make a repeat visit when we happen to be craving Hot Pot. read more

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Good for Vegetarian Good for Keto (and low carb) Good for Large Groups Good for Family & Social gatherings We decided to go to Little Sheep Mongolian hot pot since we were 5 people! (Typically we make our own hot pot at home using the Little Sheep mix from Asian supermarkets like T&T, but we only have 1 big pot, so we decided to go out!) There was a great variety of meats and veggies and other tofu and fish balls, etc. at this restaurant. The meat quality was very good, and all you can eat. Nice marbled beef, and the lamb was great as well. They come by once in a while to add more soup base when the level is getting lower. Special Dietary Restrictions: Vegetarian - Approved! One of our guests is a vegetarian, and she really enjoyed it and had a lot of vegetarian varieties that she was able to eat (eggs, tofu, veggies, etc.) Keto/Low-Carb- Approved! I have been following a Ketogenic diet for 7-8 months, and this place is a dream! You get a great selection of all you can eat meet and veggies and other things like Fish Tofu which is lower in carbs. Hot pot makes keto extremely easy, and the people you dine with can eat all their "carby" stuff like spring rolls, and buns, etc. So everyone is happy! Highly recommend! Will come here again! read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

I love how their service is quick and there's a self serve station. Their beef, lamb and pork do not come frozen thank god. One thing I hate is that the smell of hot pot lingers on your clothing and your hair. Make sure to wash your clothes once you go home! read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

I've been to the downtown Toronto one and recently visited this uptown Scarborough location. Both have its good points and downside, depends on which you prefer. This Little Sheep location is more or less a fully self-served restaurant. Right off the bat the moment I sat down, two plates of raw lamb and one plate of raw beef was set on the table - super efficient! Besides from the meat, customers like myself, will need to pick your own food using the plate on the table. The food varies from different types of meatballs or seafood balls to squid and spam, veggies and noodles. Variety was decent but I think downtown had a bit more. I was sad they didn't have my favourite quail eggs (which the downtown spot does). Service was good. When we waited for a table, the waiters were pleasant and came by every so often to ensure our table is ready soon. Keep in mind, they serve two styles: one big pot split or our own personal small hot pot. Experience was nice, nothing major and out of the world. Generally a good place to relax and have some shabu shabu time while chatting with others! read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Big soup base split in half. - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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You get your bang for your buck! It's $23.99 all day plus the pot $2 (Small) and $5 for large. It comes with regular or spicy broth. You can ask for half-half to get to try both. You can take the food items from one area. You can take as much as you want! They have a variety of noodles, meat, sauces (make your own), pop machine, juices and soy milk (ahh so good!) and dessert. Servers are friendly and quick. When it gets really busy, it's kind of challenging to flag someone but generally, they are pretty good with refills and getting your order right (for meat selection). This is one of the more affordable places in GTA in terms of AYCE hotpot. Straightforward and no hidden fees. It's a must try, TIP: LEAVE YOUR JACKET/COAT in your car whenever you can. Food smells good, but once you leave, it leaves a very strange and unpleasant smell to your clothing (especially jacket) that sticks for days unless you wash it - kinda resembles B.O (Yikes, I know). read more

AYCE Hot Pot There's been so many recent openings of new hot pot spots around the GTA lately. But I have yet to find a place I like over Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot in Scarborough. They'll always be my go to! I enjoy having the flexibility of choosing either to have an individual pot or to share a larger pot with some friends who don't mind the same soup base. Oh, did I mention? They have free drinks here as well! Try coming at lunch time, it's cheaper & there's little to no line ups, nothing compared to their dinner hours! read more

I have been too a little sheep previously at the States but they did not have all you can eat. I went yesterday with a couple of friends and I was glad this location has all you can eat! This place has an interesting style of serving thing. For non-meat items (fish balls, dumplings etc) they have it all displayed out in an area for you to grab yourself along with all the sauces. Some people may find it a bit dirty, but I like how it allows myself to get exactly what I want and how much I want. Meat wise, it seems they only have beef, lamb and pork. But that is honestly all I need. On top of that, they also have self serve curry fishballs and my personal favourite: 'fried man tou' (fried bread) where they have a bottle of condensed milk for you to add to the bread. Their ayce also includes all you can drink (usually costs extra in other places). They have all the pops as well as soy milk and plum juice. I want to point out that I was fairly happy with their service. As far as I remember there were only 1 male and 1 female serving the whole restaurant. Both were kind and brings you want you want really fast. I like how they come around and refilling our soup before we even ask. I enjoyed this place. On week nights it only costed each person ~25 dollars + tips which in my opinion was a lot cheaper than other AYCE places around here. Would definitely go back! read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Look at all this food - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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I love this place or maybe I just love hotpot. It's all you can eat and have a wide range of meat and veggies to choose from. Taste way better during the winter season when u want something hot to eat. Might need reservations. my favorite is the lamb and seafood meat which is tasty. you can get other broths for a small charge. read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Meats are fresh. The self selection is limited, most composed of fish balls and veggies. Meats will have to be asked for from the table only. I liked how customers could make their own sauces. You can customize how spicy your dipping sauces can be. The pop/soda is watered down. Place is clean and very tidy. Plenty of staff, service was quick pronto. Will return again. Come before 6:30pm this place gets packed real quick. read more

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Very spacious restaurant with tons of group seating. I prefer using the individual pots over a large shared one. Lots of fresh vegetables that you can pick yourself, along with a variety of noodles, different kinds of tofu, dumplings, fish cakes and fish balls and seafood. You have to get your beef and lamb through the waiter though. The broth is very tasty! The place gets busy so I recommend coming early, and reservations for groups over 6. They also have a good lunch deal. read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Fresh veggies! - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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I went there with my parents on a Wednesday evening around 8pm. We used a Groupon deal of $12 for a value of $20. The place was 65-70% full and we still had to wait for 10mins because there was no table for 3 with individual pot. Two of us got the mild broth and the other got the half and half. To start, my dad and I didn't like the taste of it. It has a hint of curry and not as flavourful as other places I've tried and there were many chinese herbal ingredients which I'm not a fan of. As per other Yelpers' review, the food is indeed not very sanitary as not all their foods come with a selected tong, so people use the same tong for different kinds of veggies or meats. On the other hand, I like the open buffet concept where you can see, choose whatever you want, and take your quantity. On the downside is the service. They do refill your broth when they see that it's decreasing, but they do not refill/replace empty trays with fresh ones. My dad wanted to get another serve of beef balls, but it was empty. He went again after 20mins and still empty. This is not the only food that we couldn't eat because of this problem. Around 9.30pm, I went to their dessert station to look what desserts they have, and again, it was all empty. I thought maybe they took out the trays to get fresh ones. Be careful with the time you go there. Their official closing time is 11pm, but last call is at 9.55pm. I asked for the desserts that I didn't see earlier and was told that sorry, it's too late. As of 10pm they're starting to take back all the foods and started cleaning. They only left the drinks there until 10.30pm. Will I ever come back? I don't think so. Food: 2.5/5 Service: 2/5 Cleanliness: 2/5 read more

Business meeting agenda published by my colleagues: 1. Visit office A 2. Meet with Retailer B 3. Hot Pot 4. Visit Distribution Center 5. Go to the hotel Using my extensive knowledge gained by watching Sesame Street, I figured out what was not like the others on my agenda - Hot Pot! I'd never heard of this concept, so many things raced through my mind. Maybe drugs? - nope, not with those work people : ( I finally had to ask, and my colleagues replied its a soup place. So, why is this on my agenda? Could it really be that good to plan our meetings around it? I can now say YES! The decor of the restaurant is much like many of the Chinese restaurants you find in the States. After taking some time looking at the menu I think I had figured things out. Basically this is Mongolian BBQ, except its soup. Sounds kind of boring, but it wasn't. First off for some ridiculous price of about $8 you get two servings of meat and all the soup and sides (noodles, vegetables, tofu, etc) to put in the soup. The soup and sides are all-u-can-eat. The meat and sides were all good, however it is all about the crazy hot soup base, and the concoction of sauces you can make to add to your soup. Since my colleagues were veterans of this process they told me to get the soup bowl that is split in two. One side had the spicy soup the other was a regular broth. They also helped me create a tasty combination of sauces to add to the soup. Did I happen to mention that all of this cooking is happening right in front of you at your table? Between all the steam and spice I worked up a nice sweat which helps keep you warm on those cold days in Canada, eh! After stuffing myself, like I usually do when someone challenges me to eat all I can, I headed for the bathroom. No, for once its not what you think. I went to to try to get off the multiple oily soup stains off my shirt. Watch out for those rogue noodles!!! Its a b* to get those stains out, but well worth it. Next month's agenda: 1. Blah Blah 2. Blah 3. Hot Pot 4. Blah Blah 5. Blah I now get it! read more

This place is a mess. First, they only take reservations for 6+ people. Second, we arrive to find that there were empty tables waiting for reservation parties plus many 4 people tables were filled with pairs. Third, they forced my group to sit at a table with a shared pot instead of our desire for individual pots. The tables could be more organized with tables of 2 to maximize the usage of the tables. However, it may mean less room to put dishes. Unlike other hot pot places, you can pick-up your own food with a good variety except you need to order the beef and lamb due to health issues I guess. Although the meal was slightly cheaper than other hop pot places, the quality of the food was lacking plus it was a zoo trying to navigate through the crowds to get your food. They do however have unlimited water-downed drinks including pop, soy milk and plum juice. I would likely not return again since the service and quality of food was terrible. The website posted that they had scallops but there was none to be found. I recommend to avoid this place until they fix the problems and enhance the experience. read more

I went here with a group of 16 friends to celebrate a birthday. They had 2 large tables reserved for us. I was surprisingly surprised of the quality of the food and the waiters' customer service. Majority of the food are self serve where you grab everything off trays of food onto your plate to cook. There is also unlimited pop drinks and soy milk included in the meal. The self serve food includes your typical veges, squid, assortment of balls (only the lamb balls looked home made), pork slices, wonton, tripe, pork stomach, fish cakes. The sauces are also self serve which includes: bbq, satay, sesame, seafood, and freshly cut green onions and cilantro. The beef and lamb slices are ordered from the waiters and were given to us promptly. I had the spicy broth that I really enjoyed. It had a very strong flavour that burst into my mouth with every bite I took. The flavour was strong enough that I would have been able to survive without any sauces. I have been to many hotpot places and have found that their soup base had a strong aroma but ended up with a weird aftertaste. Little sheep soup base did not give me this problem. The waiters were also good with us keeping a birthday cake in their fridge. Overall, it was a great night with great friends and great food. read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Pitchers of beer, two types of soup bases, and self serve food, lamb and beef slice plates - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

After having a not so great experience at their downtown location, one of the managers of Little Sheep reached out to me to apologize for my experience and suggest that I try out their Scarborough location which is presented in a different way. A way I was hoping for from their downtown location. All of my former criticisms were washed away after visiting Little Sheep's Scarborough location. The soup brother was more flavourful and they have a refrigerated wall of raw ingredients that you can self-serve from that they don't have downtown. Meat is still brought out to you as requested which was just fine by my standards. Also important was that the service uptown was WAY faster, courteous, and everyone here had a big smile. It looked like the staff uptown were all having fun with their jobs rather than simply grinding out customers. :) I can confidently say that Little Sheep up in Scarborough is now one of my top choices for AYCE hot pot! One word of warning, their spicy soup is SUPER SUPER spicy so you should only get it if you can handle the heat. ;) read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - The wall of self serve food. - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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This restaurant is one reason why the hot pot restaurants in the Toronto area are so much better than the hot pot restaurants in Boston. This restaurant was suggested to my family by my uncle who lives in Markham, and my cousins like to go here. The last time I went, I left the restaurant extremely happy because I was so full and I found the food to be tasty. What I also really loved about this place was the huge variety they had to offer, giving me a lot of flexibility to create my own tasty hot pot soup compared to some of the other hot pot places I have been to. Ever since I went to this hot pot restaurant, my standards for hot pot have gotten higher, and after going to many hot pot restaurants in Boston, I left usually disappointed. From what can recall, I went for an all you can eat buffet special that they were offering one night. I had so much beef and lamb, and overall, I found every beef and lamb meat to be deliciously tasty and flavourful. I also had a lot of beef and fish balls, and I also thought they were some of the tastiest I had in Toronto so far. I recall that they have a huge variety of noodles, ranging from thin Vermicelli noodles to thick Udon noodles. I liked the Shanghai style noodles the most. I remember having at least three different noodles in my broth, and they were all tasty. The vegetables, such as the tofu and cabbage were fresh, and were also tasty with the nice and hot broth. As for the interior, when you sit down, you actually get your own electronic flat top stove that cooks the broth for you, and I liked the fact that it was actually the table surface. I thought the place was spacious and comfortable and the restaurant staff was pretty friendly. I heard that this place has a few locations in California, so the next time I go to Northern California, I'll keep this place in mind. Overall, I thought I had the best hot pot dinner in the Toronto area so far and ever since I ate dinner at that place, I now have really high expectations for hot pot restaurants. This is not a bad choice if you want something really tasty to eat and to escape from the somewhat terrible Toronto winters at the same time. read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - From www.littlesheephotpot.com - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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Before I start the review on the food, I will warn you... Wear old clothes and make sure your shoes have grip if you plan to come! This AYCE hot pot concept will certainly satisfy your appetite! There is enough variety for both meat eaters and vegetarians. You can choose a spicy or mild broth... or a divided pot with both. Then, you are given plates of raw meat for you to cook in your own individual pot. If you want seafood or vegetables, there is a corner where you fill up your plate with whatever variety you want. This is also where you make your own sauce to add flavour to your cooked food and grab other things like dessert and drinks. The All You Can Drink varieties include Pepsi, Orange Soda, Sprite, Brisk Iced Tea, Soy Milk, Plum Juice and Chrysanthemum Tea. I don't go to hot pot often but the thing with this place in particular is the pungent smell of cumin in their broths. It's also quite a social meal as you can chat while you wait for your food to cook. Since you're there for at least an hour, you and your clothes end up smelling like cumin. In addition, the floors are constantly slippery because of the steam from the broth so you have to be careful when you walk. I think because 2 days after my meal (and 5 rounds of Febreze), my jacket still has a faint smell of cumin, I don't have a desire to go back. I'm sure I'll get over this in another week. Almost forgot to add that a pitcher of beer was $6.99! read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Weekend AYCE. - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

6/10 stars for the food, 9/10 for the services. 8/10 overall (not an average). Just came back from there. There was a good variety of food, but the quality was only so so. Most of the balls (beef tendon balls, fish balls, lamb balls, etc) were not that great (whereas I couldn't get enough of the beef tendon balls at Hipot!). The beef and lamb were good. We went at 9:30pm when their closing time was 11pm, and I think they didn't bother refilling some of the "self-serve" items, like the beef tripe. Though the food was only so so, I was impressed with their services. Compared to the garbage services we received at Kim Tao (you can read my review of them), the servers at this place was great, and this one gentleman named Wen Zal (I think, his name tag was slightly obscured) deserves high praises. We asked him if they were going to refill the beef tripe at the self-serve area, he said that they would. Later, he came back to ask if we were able to get any beef tripe, we told him we didn't, and he personally got us a plate of them. To me, that was some impressive service. This man deserves an award. One downside is that when they were clearing the plates, there was a lot of loud clanking. Not that big a deal tho. One other downside is they don't open late. I want to come here for cheaper late night meals. read more

I was first introduced to this place, and hotpot in general, by an old high school friend. At first, I had zero idea what hotpot really was so she had to explain it before I ended up going. I don't regret it! For those that do not know, hotpot consists of you selecting various foods and placing them in a "hot pot" of broth / spices, etc for them to cook so you can eat them, on a mini stove top. This place in particular is all you can eat (AYCE). The parking lot itself is a pretty good size as long as you aren't looking to park right in front of the place. There are a lot of businesses in this plaza so you might have to park closer to the bank in order to get a spot. Since the plaza's pretty small, this shouldn't pose a problem, even at peak hours. If you're coming from north of the place itself, you'll want to turn left at the traffic light before the plaza itself because turning left from Warden isn't fun. They actually recently redid their sign outside so it looks a little nicer now. The inside is clean for the most part but with so many customers through the day (I've gone several times, but only for dinner), that can be hard to keep up all the time. Little Sheep Hot Pot does not take reservations for any "small groups" (whatever that means) so you'll have to walk in. This place gets super busy at peak hours (which usually is after 6:30pm on weekdays, even earlier on the weekend). Not only this, but the wait can be really long and they really don't have much space near the door for you to sit / stand. So go early - I usually like to go around 5 or 5:30. The food is pretty tasty. They have a lot of selection for it too. They have a ton of veges, meat, seafood, etc. They seem to slowly change their selection over time and one of my favourites, the cucumbers, aren't there any more. I like simple foods, what can I say. Anyways, as a word of warning to the type of people that are really cautious about their food: the tongs for the food aren't clamped down so the ones for raw meat and the ones for the veges can very easily get mixed up. It doesn't matter too much in the long run because all your food goes in the hot pot anyway, but it's worth mentioning. As for their soup base, they only have "original" and spicy but I like their original so much I really don't care if they have other types. They have soy milk, several different soft drinks and a few others you get on your own too. The service, in general, has been really good. I once came reasonably late and the waitress seeing people at the door wouldn't put away her phone, even when I was talking to her about wait time (she told me 10 minutes and there were still four of five parties ahead of me 20 minutes later). She was pretty terrible. Outside of that, the workers there are pretty happy to serve you so if you need to refill your soup or get more meat, do not hesitate to ask them - they won't bite! They're pretty quick to get you what you want too so no worries there. All in all, this place has been really a great place to go with a few friends. If you like hotpot, I could recommend this place for sure. Does it compare to other hotpot places? My answer is "I'm not sure" because I've only been to one other hotpot place. So I'm not the greatest person to ask about that. read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Two styles of hotpot: Split or just one broth. Top one has spicy and original. - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

Being one of the larger chains of hot pot restaurants. Their trademark spice broth and lamb meat offerings were good, the beef at first serving was great, the second plate was not of the same quality. There are many other offerings from fish balls, noodles and vegi options to cook your own and there is the serve yourself drink bar ( pop and plum tea/ soy drink) read more

Happy Lamb Hot Pot - Your basic setting. Dont forget to bring the big plate out to pickup your to be cooked food - Mongolian Near Me - Toronto, Ontario

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I used to go to the Little Sheep in Montreal all the time, and I decided to give this one a try. To my surprise it was a lot better and there seemed to be far more selection than the one in Montreal. The servers are about the same and only come by your table when you wave them down. That's to be expected though as this place gets super busy. Don't even bother coming with a group without making a reservation, as the wait times are very long. Even with a reservation our group still had to wait in excess of 20-30 minutes on a weekend. The food here is typical with your meats, veggies and select sea food. The lamb and beef which is not self serve are usually fresh and taste great. The meat on the shelves though, are usually a bit more rough looking, and sometimes the trays need to be cleaned a bit more as I've seen some funky cross contamination happening in many of the food trays. Overall for the price and value you can't really compare with anything else in the GTA. This place is busy for a reason, it offers great value with nice food and the call you can drink area is a nice touch. Try mixing the orange pop with coke, you won't regret it! read more

I've been here for couple times, and lunch wasn't full of people for the whole restaurant on weekdays and weekends. Dinner gets busy after around 5:30pm, waiters can't wait to clean our table when more people asked for big pots. Waiters would tell you they were out of sheep, and we have to wait until their kitchen cut more of them. Waiters would graduately add more soup to our pot. My favourate side dishes are plum drink, fried buns, dips. Pops too me are very important too especially whe we ordered spice soup and lots of meat. I tried Groupon once and it only can be redeemed for dinner. I feel price doesn't has too much difference when I come here at lunch time. read more

Hubby and I have been meaning to try this place for a while and last night (Saturday) we finally got our chance. We`ve never had a Mongolian style hot pot so we did not know how different (if at all) our meal was going to be, compared to what we`re used to (chinese style) and I`m happy to say, we were pleasantly surprised. We arrived around 6:30 p.m. and there was a long line up of people so we ended up waiting about 30 min before we were seated at a small table with 2, built-in induction cooktops for our individual broth. Please note, they do not take reservations here so if you`re going with elderly people, children...etc you may want to get there early. They`re pretty efficient here and even before we were seated, we were asked what kind of broth we wanted for our meal. Upon being told that it was our first time, the waiter told us that we could have regular (chicken broth), medium or spicy broth with an option of doing half and half. We opted for 1 regular and 1 spicy broth. Two small individual pots holding our broths laden with various dried fruits, peppercorns, barks and herbs arrived almost immediately, accompanied by 3 plates of thinly sliced beef, lamb and pork. My spicy broth had a layer of seeped chili oil from what must have been 30+ dried chilies that were swimming around. What this meant, I found out, as our meal progressed was that the broth became spicier with continued boiling of these chilies, so be warned. However, waiters do come around to top your pots up with regular chicken broth during your meal so you`ll experience a little relief from heat immediately following these top ups. At least for a little while. There is a refrigerated (I`m not sure how well refrigeration worked) section holding various meats, tofu, seafood, dumplings, rice cakes and veggies that are self-serve as well as a table of (rather messy) sauces you can make dipping sauces for your hot pot. So if you`re someone who cannot cook (or combine flavors too well), you may be out of luck there. There was a standard set up of soft drink dispenser as well as another dispenser filled with sweetened soy milk, cold green tea and some sort of plum beverage (also self-serve and all you can drink), included in the price of your meal of $18.99 pp (weekend rate). Next to it sat 3-4 buffet style servers (cold) of ho-hum looking dessert items, looking neglected and rather sad. They also have white fungus and goji berries stewed in syrup which looked most promising at first glance, canned pineapples and canned mandarin oranges for post-meal wind-down. The freshness of the self-serve ingredients seemed decent enough but what we disliked the most was the fact that communal tongs were being used to handle all raw ingredients without much regard for cross-contamination. Many of the tongs were carelessly thrown back in the stainless steel containers after being used (by how many people, I don`t want to know) and often the handles were sitting in a pool of thawing meat juice, awaiting next patron. The same hygienic concerns extended to the actual cooking at the table as we were not provided extra sets of chopsticks to handle raw ingredients (meats, especially) to cook them in the broth. We had to use our hotpot ladles to place the raw ingredients into the broth and let the ladles come to a boil along with the ingredients before using our chopsticks to fish out our meal. Again, this was a big minus for me. What we liked the best was their flavourful broths which were clean, complex and rich all at the same time. The seasoning was good enough that we didn`t really need the dipping sauce to add extra seasoning to the cooked items yet, we were able to takes sips of hot broth as it bubbled away on our table. We tried the fungus and goji berries stewed in syrup to finish our meal and this is what down-graded the solid 3.5 stars to a 3 (even a 2.5). The over-cooked white fungus sat in a thick pool of uninspiring and flavourless syrup. I could have done without tasting this dessert which strangely made my teeth ache for rest of the evening. Yuck. Overall, 3 stars. If we return for a second visit, it would be solely due to their outstanding broth which may just be good enough. read more

The last time I was here was 2 years ago, and I remember it being awesome, but the recent reviews made me nervous. After revisiting it, I'm happy to say that it's just as good as I remember. Plentiful fresh meat and an enormous selection of noodles, veggies, seafood, and more. The hot appetizers were great as well. We all couldn't stop eating the fried dough buns. The staff is efficient and the restaurant as a whole is clean and elegant. The only thing I'd complain about is the price, which is at least $25/person, but you are paying for all-you-can-eat meat and we all ate until it hurt, so I guess that's fair enough. I really love this restaurant and am still puzzled by the bad reviews. I don't have any other hot pot restaurants where I'm from so maybe I just don't have anything else to compare it to? Who knows, but my family has had great experiences both times we've been here. read more