Boil Spot Hot Pot & BBQ - Orlando — Restaurant in Dr. Phillips

Average. Let me explain a few things that would make this place top notch in my book if they changed it up!

Points of reduction: They don't allow people with small appetites to order a meal off the menu. Me and my best friend can put away a lot of food. Some of our friends, not so much. We had a friend with us that wanted to order a meal but we were told that everyone has to order off the all you can eat menu or nobody can. The meals are for to-go only. I guess they were afraid we'd slip them a little extra meat?? She has an incredibly small appetite so even if did (we didn't) then it would have been such a small amount that wouldn't break their overhead. We debated leaving and then they were ok with us ordering the meal so we'd stay.

I originally wanted to leave anyway because a lot of other Hot Pot + K-BBQ hybrid places will have a price for one or the other, and a slight upcharge for both. Boil Spot only does JUST Hot Pot, or both. No option for just K-BBQ. I wanted to go anywhere else that doesn't have that silly rule because I wanted just BBQ and could have saved a few bucks without the Hot Pot. No dice. We stayed anyway.

The meat quality ranged from terrible to great. Very polarizing. The steak, or at least the piece I tried was stringy and needed some seasoning but the only thing you can add is sauces from the all you can eat food spread. Some of the chicken and beef pieces weren't all too fun to chew through either. I mean, at an all you can eat place that is roughly $30-$35 per person, quality is going to be questionable to a degree. I didn't completely hate it, as I started this review with "average". The best pieces were really good though, with each bite being marinated nicely regardless of any odd textures.

I wish I wasn't doing this review 8 weeks later because I can recall at the time that I was looking for a sauce but they didn't have any of it. Had I have done this review sooner, I would say what it was. Sriracha, probably. I remember thinking "this is a basic option and it isn't even here!? Oh well".

Editing this point in 5 minutes after posting: I noticed that the owner is replying to some reviews saying a generic few sentences about improving based on the low reviews. The thing is, some of the other lower ratings mentioned some of the things I am mentioning and they have changed nothing so far. That is kind of sad. Makes it seem like they aren't really reading the reviews nor are they actually taking concerns for improvement seriously. They respond by copying and pasting to keep up a false appearance.

I will say, it was neat that there was complimentary ice cream (dixie cups with chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry). Most Hot Pot places I've been to didn't have free desserts at all.

The service was also good. Better than the silly rules and small inconveniences that make this place a 3 out of 5 in my honest opinion. It is in Orlando, so you know you have tons of other options...

Boil Spot Hot Pot should be renamed Spoiled Wasteful Spot, what a crock! Welcome to my first scathing review - it takes a lot bad service, an exorbitant amount of quail egg on my face for this reporter to actually put pen to the pages of Google for them to burn and sizzle in the cyber forever. Enter Boil Spot Hot what have you…. Wherein you can order the MSG filled hot pot alone or the Korean bbq with the hot pot because you can’t get the bbq alone, it’s as if some menu fascists are at work. 🤯 This con artist run stink fest, takes east meets west to a whole new level of bastardizing a most beloved tradition. I’ve been to all-you-can-eat Korean bbq joints globally and while it’s customary to encourage only eating your full, the Boil Spot slop house distracts poor patrons with conveyer belts of tofu/fried tofu and most alarmingly fresh tofu (are the other tofus less than?) into ordering a large hot pot, which only comes in one size (enormous aka wasteful), then proceeds to throw it away rather than giving customers the option to keep the odorous broth ( yup, this place stinks like a sewer, don’t plan on leaving your house for a week post soaking up the non-air in this greasy spoon). Do not pass go, do not collect $200 worth of stomach churning fatty preservativey poultry. Try Gyu-Kaku or even McDonald’s. Any place that requires this much fine print, is a lot of things… “fine” isn’t...

I've been to almost all of the hotpot & BBQ combo restaurants as well as many hotpot only places & the Boil Spot is at the top of my favorites list!!

They did a pretty good job at the "Korean" BBQ options, the galbi was marinated very well (not too sweet, like most places) Chicken bulgogi was also tasty. I loved the Chinese pork sausage (for the grille) soooo tasty....I'd go back just for the egg fried rice & that grilled sausage!!

The hotpot had great seafood options like the extra large clams, scallop, shrimp, octopus, squid, blue crab, crawfish, mussels. There were also options for the adventurous eater such as frog legs, duck feet & blood, tripe & of course the fish balls, beef balls....all kinds of balls!

A lot of options on the revolving belt for veggies (bok choy, napa, shrooms, lotus root, spinach, tofu, broccoli to name a few) & different types of noodles....I do wish the belt moved a tiny bit faster 🙃 but the server can get you anything you need to so you don't have to wait!

Our server Chrystian (I hope I spelled that right) was our GREAT server, he was knowledgeable, helpful & just a really nice guy! All of the servers & staff were very attentive & helpful! We will definitely be back when...