Tokyo Japan sushi & hotpot Buffet
Company Details
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 11AM-2:30PM,4:30-9:30PM
Thursday: 11AM-2:30PM,4:30-9:30PM
Friday: 11AM-2:30PM,4:30-10PM
Saturday: 11:30AM-3PM,4:30-10PM
Sunday: 11:30AM-3PM,5-9PM
Contact Information
Houston, Texas, 77064
United States
Tokyo Japan sushi & hotpot Buffet Reviews
Submitted by Auda Gee on 09/17/2022
Auda Gee 3 stars rating.
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.
Submitted by Philip Quan on 09/12/2022
Philip Quan 4 stars rating.
After seeing it was reopened it was closed for over two years, I was happy to revisit this place.
I went here during lunch on a Saturday were they offer a limited menu. It was so limited that it left me with a conundrum in figuring what else I can eat since I pretty much tried everything I wanted by the second trip. I can't complain about the execution of the cooking as that was good, but I expected to have hot pot which I saw was only available for dinner.
I did like the sushi. Fish was in very good shape, especially the salmon. Rice is sort of firm and lightly seasoned. However the rolls are large and have too much rice, but its a buffet - I cant be too hard.
The hibachi shrimp was very good as well. It was tossed in a sweet chili seasoning. The sizing of the shrimp was the 16-20 variety.
The hibachi beef was done medium well, but was bizarrely seasoned with sausage seasoning. I ate a good amount, but I was thrown off by that.
Fried rice was excellent. It was made with short grain rice it and prepared without soy sauce - my preferred method. I think it is called yang chow fried rice. Chow mein was bit limp but had excellent wok hei like the rice.
Hot sour soup was made the traditional way with wood ear fungus, tofu, bamboo shoots and dried lotus flowers. It was good, but too thick
The fried blue crab was good, buffet quality. It was the local kind, not thr spiny Chinese one.
The grilled salmon nugget with mayo and pony sauce were good too. Flesh was firm, not dry.
I would go back if I was in the area. There are no other good buffets there in terms of quality, especially the sushi. 14.99 for lunch is reasonable for the quality you get.
Submitted by Miimi Poo on 09/12/2022
Miimi Poo 2 stars rating.
So, I had taken my brother here for his birthday after remembering what a great buffet this place use to be and well, we were all very disappointed unfortunately. After the reopening of this restaurant there is not much to the buffet if you're not ordering the hotpot. The hotpot items have replaced many of the fresh sushi and seafood items that their once was a huge selection of. They don't even have sashimi anymore or seaweed salad! I mean, come on, seaweed salad is a must for sushi! So, to sum it up, if you're not into hotpot...don't waste your time, there are better buffets with plenty more to offer.
Submitted by Dead Sausage on 08/18/2022
Dead Sausage 2 stars rating.
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.
Submitted by Sonia Hernandez- Ochoa on 08/08/2022
Sonia Hernandez- Ochoa 5 stars rating.
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.
Submitted by Kathy Nguyen on 08/07/2022
Kathy Nguyen 1 stars rating.
One star would sadly be the BEST I could give them. I came back with my family after it reopened again since pre-pandemic. We were all so excited to see that they made a new addition of hotpot to their menu. However, we were disappointed to see that since now they added hotpot, they got rid of a lot of their old menu items. There were no variety of sushi neither were there many varieties of toppings for hotpot. Overall I would rate the food 5/10.
Personally I don’t mind trying new things and I’m not one to give reviews either. However, as a server myself, I am beyond disappointed in the service and professionalism of this restaurant now. I’ve been to different restaurants here and there and some of the service has been MAX okay, but at this restaurant I think staff may need a little more training and public etiquette. We came in the restaurant to be greeted by a “host” that I didn’t think appeared to be one, but that wasn’t the issue. The issue was he took our drink order and wasn’t even sure what drink they had and continued to just put whatever he thought was right. Not only that but he was constantly on his phone when trying to “help” us and eventually we had to figure everything out ourselves. My brother asked for assistance and the worker was on his phone and holding it in plain site while carelessly aiding my brother. I personally thought it was very unprofessional. I did see our server try her best but she hardly ever tried to check on us in the beginning. Only towards the end when she wanted us to leave and was too focused on the tip being automatically included and when we gave her the wrong amount of tip in cash she corrected us and asked for more in a rude manner. They didn’t even informed us that if we sat in a party section it was going to include auto gratuity and we were only a party of five that could sit ELSEWHERE outside of the party section, they just sat us there themselves. They said auto gratuity is not included outside of the party section and when they informed us too late we didn’t want to be an inconvenience to move because we honestly just gave up. Sad to say I’ll never come back and the old Tokyo One will be missed. I will say I’m not speaking ill of ALL the workers since I personally have not encountered everyone, there was one server who wasn’t even ours that helped out a bit and I greatly appreciated that.
Submitted by T.C. Clark on 07/29/2022
T.C. Clark 5 stars rating.
This wonderful sushi buffet just reopened from a pandemic closure. The food is great, service is top shelf. They are offering a 20% discount with free soft drinks til August 1st, 2022. They had added hot pot cooking available at dinner during the week and all-day on weekends. This is a extremely great sushi and seafood buffet which is included in the hot pot price.
Submitted by Mikaela Farrokh on 07/25/2022
Mikaela Farrokh 3 stars rating.
We were so excited when we found out that they reopened but i was kinda ???? and wasn't satisfied with the quantity of food they have on the buffet area. Very little selections, and it tasted different.
Submitted by Walter Vanskike on 07/24/2022
Walter Vanskike 3 stars rating.
Food was great
Should not call it a sushi buffet/ hot pot when it’s now a hot pot with a small sushi buffet. Nothing was labeled so I was totally confused. When I asked for help the directions were very vague. Staff really needs some training.
Pricing at the door is different from what you are charged. No lunch prices like it stated at the door.
But over all it’s was good food just not that same choices as the pre-pandemic
Submitted by Maria Miao on 07/16/2022
Maria Miao 5 stars rating.
The variety of meat, seafood and greens for the hot pot was great! The price = the quality
