Reviews for Kaizen Shabu in Santa Ana, CA
Free sake, reasonable price. The quality is good for the area, ok compared to a real Shabu. The staff is great. 5 Oz portions of... meet is ok for one healthy lean person, but you can go monster if hungry. Nice experience. Good for dating inside. Good forfamily outside. Read more
I had my first OC shabu shabu experience here and it was fantastic. It's located in an artsy part of Downtown Santa Ana with... plenty of street parking nearby. I choose the spicy miso broth and the combo meat. So I got 5 oz each of pork and beef. Nexttime I would do the sharing option, it's a lot of food and you get to choose two broths. The beef was very good, make sure youdon't let it cook in the broth too long. The atmosphere was upbeat and the employees were very nice, I can't wait to go back. Read more
It is soooooo good here! The Tom Yum is delicious , the chicken wings have so much flavor I can?t even describe them.... ???????????????????? very impressed , super clean , cool art work down the hallway. Great Japanese Whiskeys too.???????????????????? Read more
Friendly owner. The meat quality doesn't seem as good as other places. Got the kobe and wasn't as soft as I'm used to. Prices... are also pretty high. Get the chicken wings, those are good and juicy. Read more
Love this place so much that my girlfriend and I had to bring our friends! A couple of them had a bad experience with Shabu in... the past, but Kaizen definitely made up for it! The food is delicious and quality, the staff is so friendly and Lamson the owneris an amazing human! Read more
I am in between a 4.5 and a 5 stars. We had a reservation to this place and when we got there, the host kept pushing us to the... back to wait. We weren?t clear to what he wanted and kept waiting in the wrong spot and kept pushing back. This place is streetmetered parking or parking in the lot with a meter. They had outside dining, fortunately, we were able to sit inside because Iwas cold. The wait to be seated was less than 5 minutes. When we got seated, we were greeted by the owner. He introducedhimself and gave us hot sake on the house, which was nice! I am a weak drinker and my boyfriend was driving, so unfortunately,some of it had to go to waste. If you are new joiner and not driving or a weak drinker, I suggest getting the sake! We orderedtwo combo plates and two cocktails. The combo plates comes with 2 meats, veggies, sauce, broth, and rice. One of the comboplates I ordered angus beef and pork belly and the other one I ordered angus beef and korabuta park. They were sooo good,especially the ponzu sauce! They didn?t advertise this, but ask for their special chili oil! It was very spicy with just 3drops. I love spicy, so I?d come back just for the chili oil. For cocktails, we ordered the Sunset Rio and Passion of theShito. Both were good. Order came out fast. The service was good. The restaurant was very busy, so we understand. They seemeda bit forgetful and didn?t check on us often, but they were very friendly and tried to be helpful. We kindly reminded ourneeds. Overall, I?d definitely come back for the food! Read more
The food was amazing. Very flavorful, the crispy tofu and fried fish balls were very good. The staff was super friendly and on... top of things. I got a great drink recommendation from our server. The sunset rio which was very refreshing. The spicy miso wasvery flavorful and definitely worth it. Read more
The waiter was extremely helpful! Being I never had shabu shabu before he spent the time to explain everything to me, then he... helped me pick 2 delicious broths ( tonkatsu and creamy vegetable) and the best meats. Well worth every penny spent for the 3 ofus! The owner stopped by and was so nice. Definitely will come back! The takoyaki and gyoza appetizers were amazing as well. Read more