Happy Lamb Hot Pot, Toronto — Restaurant in Toronto

This is one of the most affordable AYCE (All You Can Eat) Hotpot joints where you literally can order off the menu as much as you need (or want for that matter).

There is a lunch menu and dinner menu where the lunch menu is pretty much mostly vegetable or processed meat items like fishballs etc and frozen meats (basically all hotpot places use frozen meat as I think it's more hygenic and easier to cut). For the lunch menu they don't have sliced meat option so you got to add like $5 or something for it, but if you go during dinner, it is more expensive but you get a way larger variety of meats and spare parts (like tripes, stomach, intestines and frog legs etc). They have a weekend surcharge which is additional CAD 1 before tax and tips from Friday to Sunday and public holidays.

Soup base is not included in the AYCE price and they have small single soup base pots or a large pot for sharing or even better, a large pot with dual soup base where you can choose from. If I remember correctly the soup bases are tomato, clear, spicy, sour and spicy (different from just spicy). Depending on your choice of small single pots or large shared pot, they will assign you different table types as the tables have the 2 different types of configurations, electronic individual pot stoves or one large pot stove.

Basically food wise, soup base wise and ingredients wise they are great. This place is not small but if I didn't remember wrongly, they only had like 3 servers (where one of they also collects payment) for a space of more than 15 tables so for hungry customers who eat very fast or don't order enough, you'll have to wait quite long before their server comes to you. One key thing to note is no matter how much quantity you specify on your order sheet, they kind of ignore that and just give what they think is adequate for the number of people in the group or number or reorders (the more reorders, I reckon the lesser the quantity, even though I specified like 3 * 3 prawns, I was given only 5 pieces of prawns though they did specify in their menu how many prawns per portion). They do miss outitems now and then so if you remind them, they'll bring it for you. One suggestion is to order the most variety of ingredients at one go and add on more later on if they don't provide enough.

They do deploy a robot server to bring the large quantity of food to your table but the real server will come with a stand and big tray to place all your food on given the limited space there is on the table top.

Food wise based on price is definitely 5 stars but I dropped 2 stars for service as they are severely understaffed and quantity of food is not fulfilled so the average comes to a 4 stars. Hope they can manage this better or more efficiently without increasing the price, else it will be...

Expect the usual difficulty finding A) a parking spot and B) parking machines that won't eat your coins without giving you your parking ticket. Unless you use the underground parking, which is fairly close.

Very clean. This includes the restrooms. The cleaning staff was incredibly friendly and professional, and helped me relay some messages to the kitchen staff.

Tables were well lit, while not being too bright. The chairs were very comfortable and soft. The ranges for the hotpot are fairly simple to use; on my range, the options were on/off, hotpot, stir fry, timer and temperature increases (usually increasing or decreasing in intervals of 200 degrees, with the exception of low heat at 60 degrees). Se other ranges had child-locks as an option, which I did not have the opportunity to play around with to figure out how it worked exactly.

Very good quality hot pot. Be warned that when the staff informs you the spicy hot pot is spicy, it really is spicy. I simply took out the chopped peppers out of my hotpot, and my hotpot from then on was not too spicy, which was perfect for me. Their beef is stunning! Their shrimp, mussels and squid were good, and did not have the overwhelming fishy taste to them I expected. All of the items I requested seemed quite fresh and were very tasty. Including the free dessert at the end: an ice cream bar!

Prices seemed fair; roughly the same prices as other all-you-can-eat buffet stores. Do note that the soup for the hot pot is included seperately from the dinner price. For 3 people, it cost us around $108 (taxes included, tips not included).

A huge surprise to me was their ROBOT! It delivers your food to your table! It's sounds are not overly intrusive; they are loud enough to let everyone know it is moving (potentially to your table), but not so loud that you might be annoyed or unable to focus on any single thing. Was definitely delighted to have this thing come to my table throughout my visit.

Yes, you read that right: at this location, you will have to call for items to come to your table. This was the only thing I had a problem with during my visit. It seemed that only a single staff member was running around to bring people to a table, give them their menus, take their orders, and bring some of the requested items to the correct tables. They were friendly, but I felt bad for them until they got some more help towards the end of my visit. My items came to my table somewhat slowly at times. At one point I had to give that staff member my menu and ask them to please send my items to my table, because it was taking a while. Because they were busy, I had to request a different staff member to retrieve my menu.

Would definitely recommend this location! One of the best hot pot stores in the GTA...

I CANT WAIT TO COME BACK!! my friend and i came here for the first time and for our first hot pot experience and that’s exactly what it was—an experience! the gentleman working, who was serving us, was absolutely amazing! he explained everything to us, how it works, what’s good, what’s popular and when the food came to the table, he showed us how to properly cook everything and explained exactly how long for! the service was amazing, they gave us a pitcher of water which my friend and i both drank and just as we emptied the first, they came with a new, full pitcher of water. we went with the spicy and the original broth—did the yin yang and we also ordered lamb and beef. the meat was exceptional, the soup broth was hot and salty and spicy and flavorful, the veggies were fresh, the service was amazing, our table was never empty! they also ensured we had enough soup broth at all times, topping it up when it was getting low as this is crucial to an enjoyable hot pot experience. there were tons of options on the menu from veggies to seafood to tofu to additional meats. there is something for everyone! one of my favourite things was making your own sauce! our server let us know which combination was popular if we were unsure which to mix and that was also an awesome recommendation! all around amazing. i honestly can not wait to come back here and i can’t wait to tell all my friends about how great happy lamb is! an excellent experience, and high quality food. thank you, i will see you again soon!! (i should also mention they are following all covid/vaccine mandate protocols and they were very friendly and thorough about it!!!! was very very...