California Shabu Shabu

Been here many many times over 6-7 years. Love this place. I am an early dinner person so usually no wait to get sat. We order beef rib eye every time. Service can be slower than usual because of short staffed nights but we still receive good attitude and happy servers every time. Price is normal. I think i should go back more often. I love the noodles soup that you can make at the end. Make sure dont leave udon noodle too long in the pot, it gets tooo soft and fall off chopsticks!!!!

If I can give them -10, I would. We are frequent shabu diners and have eaten at many shabu restaurants. Unfortunately, our recent experience at this location raised serious concerns about food allergy safety. When you are seated, sauces are placed on the table immediately—before you even have the menu in hand. At that point, there is no verbal explanation of what the sauces contain and no clear allergen warning provided by staff. Any mention that the sauces may contain peanuts appears only in small print on the menu, which we had not yet seen. My child has a peanut allergy. One of the sauces looked like a typical sesame-style sauce commonly served at shabu restaurants. My 11-year-old kid tried a very small amount before we were aware of its contents. This resulted in an allergic reaction, which required medication and could have led to much more serious consequences. Being a medical professional, I was able to help him early and prevent more serious, potentially irreversible consequences. After we raised concern, the server had to search carefully through the fine print on the menu to show us where it says that the sauce contain peanuts. This information was not readily available anywhere in the restaurant, and the server did not appear to know this at the time where this information can be found on the menu. What was most concerning was the response from another female server, who told me that I “should have known” the sauce contained peanuts because "it looks like peanut butter". That comment was significantly inappropriate and troubling. Parents should not be solely blamed for a restaurant’s failure to clearly disclose major allergens, especially when sauces are served automatically before any explanation is given. Peanuts are a major, high-risk allergen, particularly for children. Allergen information should be clearly communicated upfront, and staff should be trained to proactively warn guests—not place the responsibility on families after an exposure has already occurred. Because this represents a serious safety concern, we will be reporting this incident to the appropriate authorities, including regulatory and disability-related agencies, so that proper review and corrective action can take place. We are sharing this experience so other families with food allergies can make informed decisions.

I love this place! We have been there a few times and we like it a lot. The owner is very nice and he showed me all the items on the menu and took the time to talk to us since we are from out of town. He asked us questions to see what kind of soup that would work for us and we ended up with the Sukiyaki soup and we loved it! We will be back any time we are in the area.

This place is very unique in flavor, the staff is always a delight. The whole place is Very clean and the food is fresh, the meat is cut right in there within minutes of serving you. I can’t imagine how what would make this good better. The whole market center and parking lot has just been remodeled as well. I highly recommend this place.

Love how bright and clean the restaurant is. Nice setup as well. Most importantly, the meat quality was good. We opted for 3 different meat plates to try out (prime rib eye, choice rib eye, and pork belly), and all the meat quality was pretty good. Funny that we thought the prime rib eye would be the best, but we actually preferred the choice rib eye and pork belly better. So tender and soft. Loved that the veggies were crispy and fresh too. Service was fast and super friendly. I especially enjoyed the spicy sauce they recommended to try, it went so well with the sesame/goma sauce. It def added a good flavor to it. (Note: just one drop is enough. Only if you can handle heat really well, I tried two drops and it was quite spicy) Also, would recommend getting a complimentary bowl of kombu soy sauce from them, it was a nice mini treat to enjoy your ramen at the end of the meal. Enjoy!