YZ’s Hot Pot & BBQ

Love this place… Authentic with good variety, if you don’t like what you got– try ordering something else… Extensive menu so waitress recomendation is best, will forsure return!

This place was ok. I ordered the Ramen here and was very disappointed.
I had the BBQ Oysters, they were fantastic.
I had the grilled jalopeno and eggplant both were great.
If I were to go back here, I would order from the BBQ menu.

Second round of Hot Pot and I’m impressed. I love the food here and the service is good. Definitely a small place with huge potential. I love the sweet potato fries, I love the pot stickers, I love the ANGUS SHISHKABOB!

Pretty disappointing right before a race for them to forget about our food. The fried rice came and it was okay, but everything else we ordered wasn’t coming. We asked and they said they were short staffed. 45 minutes later we asked for the bill. They were apologetic and said they forgot to put the order in.

Best fried rice I’ve ever had, very authentic. All my friends loved their food. Awesome music too, they were playing CL from 2ne1.

This place is not open on sundays. We drove there before their posted hours, on Unilocal it showed they were open until midnight on Sundays n were closed at around o:30pm.

A friend of mine wanted to get some spicy food and a few drinks at about 11:30PM, after looking around the area we found YZ and just stopped in. They were playing club music, pretty cool environment. We had Sushi and their beef hot pot bowl, plus a few drinks. I liked the way we could watch them make our Sushi at the bar. The owner and chef, Justin, even came over to ask how are experience was. Nice touch. Want to have an upbeat atmosphere and some great food late at night, this is a place to go and try out.

Im happy to found this place last night.
We r total 5ppl and ordered spicy beef soup first and it was delicious but the quantity is soooo small :(
so we had to order sth big. I do not remember the name of second order soup. It was about $ 17 and huge. It was also delicious and quite impressive.
Also the servers and owner r so kind to us.
Im definitely going back to this place soon. Sooooooo nice place to drink.

Worst service in Tempe!!! The food is not good as well. Moreover, if you can get your food, it means you are lucky! No waiter serve you until you are leaving.

If I could give them zero stars, I would. We came in on a Tuesday night. The service was piss poor and the food was mediocre. All the ingredients they used for their hot pots were not fresh, but frozen ingredients. We saw a group of four walk out because the waitresses never came back for them. It took 45 minutes just to get our food. And a additional 50 minutes tp get our check.
I will never ever go back again. I was pissed that the tip was included with the bill. I didn’t even want to pay.

This place has terrible service so I wouldn’t bother going. I can’t review on the food because I never Had a chance to try due to the terrible long wait. I came to this place with a friend we waited over an hour and 30 mins and never got our food and left. I have never encountered this type of service until now.

My first time here last night. They play clubbing music. The interior was nice, a lot of chairs on the bar and you can see them grill the satay too. Quite nice for small group or even date night.wink.wink…
The spicy seafood hotpot, I am not a fan of it. It feel like they just used chili oil paste, lots of oil. I got 1 small tiny half crab, which is barely got the meat of it. Couples shrimps with the head and the skin attached, kinda annoyed to eat it especially when it’s hot.lol.
The spicy pork intestinal was awesome, if you dare to try. Again, a lots of chili oils but the flavors was great.
I would love to go back to try their sushi next time.
The place is open till 2 am, which is awesome!
The services average.

really cant go wrong with hot pot. the service needs a bit of work. Takes too long to get orders, food, check etc. However, casual trendly and good for late night food and dates.
The meat is frozen. not a huge fan of this. but all in all would definitely go again.

I came here specifically for the hot pot. I ordered the spicy beef hot pot. The broth is not very flavorful. Also they are very stingy on the meat. I also ordered a Taiwanese sausage from their BBQ menu. It was awful ! (you know what I’m talking about!)Service was terrible as well, there was only one waitress for the entire time. She didn’t even bring the rice and dipping sauce until I’m half way done eating. Will never be back again… I don’t understand how restaurant owners put mediocre stuff on the menu and expect people to pay for it. They are totally trying to copy Boiling point but way off.

Hot pots here are full of rubber bath toys that will burn ur tongue. Usually i love the broth, but this had zero flavor. Im hungry still. I had a really good hot pot in LA once. This was a pretty sad comparison. Im surprised it had so many asians in it, ASU explains it i guess. Damnit! Id totally go to chipotle right now if my tongue wasn’t fried. I JUST NEEDED FOOD N ALL I GOT WAS TOYS!

I wasn’t impressed. Ordered the garlic crab, and the crab was nothing like the picture on Unilocal — it was small and really hard to eat because there was not much meat.
We also ordered the spicy beef hot pot (medium) and it was way spicy. It was still good but towards the end it got a little hard to eat.
The tempura ice cream was not crispy/​crunchy at all. It was more of a pound cake.
I’m willing to try this place again just because they have such a broad variety of their menu. Even though they claim to be Izakaya, it’s more Chinese than Japanese food.

My roommate and I decided to try this place out for dinner since we live nearby and had never been there before. We were immediately greeted by our waitress, and we asked to sit at the bar. She showed us the menus, but everything looked so food, we really had no idea where to start. Justin, the BBQ cook was right in front of us and took a lot of time guiding us through the menu, reccomending items, and even giving us samples of a few items. We ordered the kimchi hotpot, which we ordered with rice noodles because my roommate is allergic to gluten, they were totally accommodating and it was great! We also had fried tofu, bacon wrapped onions, lamb, jalapenos, chives, beef wrapped asparagus, yellow tail and another dish that had egg and seafood in it. Everything was great, but the lamb was a favorite.
Justin also recommended a raspberry wine, a peach sake, and a bottle called chum churn, which was delicious, but dangerous!
Everything was so good that we literally asked for our check and changed our minds to order more food. I actually left to pick up my boyfriend and bring him back to enjoy the experience with us.
We can’t wait to go back and are already planning what we will have on our next visit!

i’ll be quick to admit that when it comes to Hot Pot: «I have no idea what I’m doing».
I got the spicy beef hot pot with medium level spicy (they also offer very hot & flaming levels of spice).
Got it to go, the $ 11.99 price seemed fair for the size & variety of ingredients.
It’s pretty much a spicy bowl of ramen with more ingredients than usual such as tofu, cabbage, meats, veggies. And the spice was noticeable, wasnt bland at all.
I’ll give this place another visit in the future.

Cute small place. We had 8 of us thank goodness we had a reservation but the food took so long: From appetizers to our actually meals. They forgot a lot. Our drinks were also empty. The servers are hit and miss: 1 server was helpful and 1 server was not happy to be there. It was like we were bothering her.

I’ve had my fair share of hot pot before, hell I worked at a shabu shabu restaurant in the past so it’s safe to say I have pretty high standards when it comes to hot pot. Though I do acknowledge the differences when it comes down to it.
YZ’s is a bit confusing, it has Taiwanese/​Chinese style hotpot but sell Yakitori and show cases décor that is Japanese. I ordered the Spicy Beef Hot Pot with Ponzu sauce and a side of quail eggs.
The hot pot broth was indeed spicy, came with 50% cabbage, enoki mushrooms, 3 slices of beef, imitation crab, clear noodles, tofu. The side order of quail eggs was a joke, there was only 3 and were oddly hard and rubbery in texture. Other than spicy, the broth was bland. The ponzu sauce was overly garlicky and was spicy due to it’s rawness and didn’t accent the flavors of the hot pot. To be honest, the items in the hot pot didn’t taste fresh and my flame went out 5 minutes into eating.
The service is spotty, had to waive down the waitresses a couple of times and didn’t really recommend anything or mentioned what they served at YZ.
For $ 12, I left unsatisfied and they had included an automatic gratuity which had caused some confusion. Since they had an optional addition of tip below that auto gratuity, I’d rather decide if I’d like to tip a certain percentage or not.
Would skip on the hot pot here and probably order some skewers or other tapas instead.