KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot — Restaurant in Matthews

We had a tremendous experience at Kpot. I want to give a shout out to JC who was our server? He was phenomenal. Very patient, he explained and walked us through the entire process. It is very clean. It is very well organized. The staff? Stellar. Quality of meats/seafood - STELLAR, fresh. Our server, JC, was very patient and did all the ordering for us this first time. It’s all you can eat, during the week I believe it’s approximately around $20 on the weekday and approximately $30 on the weekend. If you do KPot OR Korean BBQ. If you do both it’s apx $35.99 weekend. Trust me - WAY TOO MUCH FOOD! Go twice, try the barbecue one weekend and the KPot (soup) another time. Too much in one sitting. Please be cautious? If you order too much meat/food upfront, you could end up with raw meat or maybe cooked products that are left over. They end up getting thrown out OR you pay $15 a pound if you choose to bring it home.

I strongly suggest if you go one time, try the soup or Kpot. NOT both - again go back a second time and try the BBQ.

They have an amazing sauce bar that has so many different seasonings and kimchi.

The best french fries you will eat anywhere. I’m going to tell you that right now. They are battered and fried - I hate potatoes - LOVED THE FRIES!!

If you do the shrimp, ask them to take the heads off! I believe it states the same on the menu.

The very thin meats? Please make sure the burner, the grill in the middle of the table? Is on low. The reason being? If it’s on high, the meat will stick even with the oil spray. Because it’s so thin? It kind of shreds so you will have to know how to navigate the temperature of that grill, which is on the outside of the table.

Go high to sear your shrimp, ribeye, other thick meat like pork belly and short rib.

If you do the seafood, you can ask for tabs of butter and use that instead of oil spray. The salmon, shrimp were excellent. VERY fresh!

Everything was so fresh, was so good! Be prepared to cook your own food and know how to operate the grill so it’s not on high the entire time. Your server will come around and switch out the grill which is a great thing because using the butter for the seafood? It did tend to blacken a bit!

Again, all you can eat so no rush - order two or three at a time. Eat. Then order something else. This way again? You don’t waste food where it gets thrown out or you pay $15 a pound because you ordered too much upfront.

If you have questions, let me know but I will say our server JC? He was wonderful!

They definitely walk you thru the process but I caution yet again? You don’t want to have leftover food at the end unless you want to pay to bring it home.  I feed the homeless so it killed me to see so much leftover food? Which is why I paid the $15 a pound to bring it home. Now that we know? Going forward when we go back, we will definitely order the minimum because again? There’s no limit!

SHORT REVIEW:

Absolutely recommend this location 200%! Again, be prepared to cook your own food. Learn how to turn the grill from high to low depending on the food that you’re cooking. Make sure you only order a couple of things at a time so you can eat what you order and don’t have leftovers that will get thrown out or you will have to pay to bring home.

Can’t wait to go back and bring Friends with me! I had a blast! Every product we sampled? As you can tell from the pictures, we definitely ate a lot? Fresh fresh fresh meats, and seafood - such a treat!

If you do the Kpot (which is the soup) vs BBQ - I did the mushroom broth and I loved it! I did it with udon noodles and ordered sides of broccoli, different types of mushrooms, onions, spinach. You put it in the K pot - it boils at a high temperature that you control on the table.

It was so good so yes I did pay my $15 to bring it home lol!

But again reminder? Do either the K-Pot or BBQ - do NOT do both because it’s just too much food and you don’t want to have to pay more than the $30 on the weekend and the $20 on the weekday....

I usually don't leave bad reviews, but today was one of the worst experiences I've ever had. I felt uncomfortable just being in the environment, and we couldn't even finish our dinner. If the manager/staff had been aware that cleaning begins an hour before closing, it would have been better if they had informed us properly. That way, we could have chosen to dine elsewhere and avoided this unpleasant experience!

History: We arrived at 9:30 PM, and the sign on the door clearly stated that the restaurant closed at 10:30 PM. The host seated us without mentioning that the kitchen was about to close. Only after we sat down did the server inform us that the kitchen would close at 9:45 PM and that we needed to place our entire order at once. We had some confusion when ordering because we wanted the whole experience (Soup / BBQ), but the server only added BBQ at first. By the time the order was corrected in the system, the kitchen deadline had passed (9:50 PM), and the server informed us that the chef refused to send the noodles for the soup. Our server was busy closing other tables, which caused a delay in our service. As we were running out of time and since we had already ordered the meat, we accepted just having the BBQ experience. We were left with just 30 minutes to enjoy the experience of preparing and sharing a meal as a family and at 10:20 PM, the server brought us the bill, even though we were still cooking and eating our food (as you know, grilling the meat sometimes takes time, we had a table of 5, and we order everything at once). Then at 10:30 PM, she came back to complete the payment, and finally, 5 minutes after that (literally 5 minutes—10:35 PM), she returned to let us know that the restaurant was now closed. Throughout the entire diner, we had the impression that they didn't want us there which led us to ate very quickly as they were already clearing items and cleaning the...

There were 3 of us in our family and we went to eat at around 6pm. When we arrived, we met someone we knew and tried to ask the staff if we could sit at a table near them. A staff member came over and said we couldn't sit there. I turned around and asked why, but the staff member was vague and wouldn't give a reason, just repeated that we couldn't sit. We were confused and asked again, then the employee turned back to look at the manager and saw the manager nod, then allowed us to sit at the same table as the group of acquaintances. We ordered 3 hotpots because we don't like grilled food. Everything was fine until we paid. The bill clearly said 3 hotpots but they charged 20% for a party of 5. This confused us and we had to go to the front desk to ask. the answer i got back was because we went with a group of acquaintances. but obviously we came later and sat at a separate table, paid separately and did not eat the same grilled food as them. however the manager said that because we asked to sit near them and the waiter had to serve 3 tables instead of 2 tables so we had to pay a 20% fee. so i reminded them that we went separately and came later, we were not told that if we sat near, the waiter would have to serve 3 tables at once and would have to pay a 20% fee. i told them that when we asked to sit at a nearby table the staff did not mention this issue to us, if they had told us we would have been willing to sit wherever they arranged. when i asked that, the manager froze for a few seconds, then pointed to the price list with a note that said “20% fee will be charged for groups of 5 or more” and said that was the restaurant’s policy. i understood that, but it didn’t make sense because we were only 3 people. the staff’s attitude was very unclear from the moment we walked to the table until we went to...