Irvine Gets Another Shabu Shabu Bar

There are exactly three restaurants dedicated to shabu shabu in Irvine: House of Shabu Shabu at the 99 Ranch plaza on Jeffrey, Ayame Hot Pot on Portola Parkway, and SWSH at Diamond Jamboree, which was the last entrant in a city that previously...

As we mentioned here several months ago, a new Japanese grill and shabu shabu called Miyabi was going to take over the space left over by Sushilicious across the street from IVC. Now that restaurant has opened. The only change appears to be that...

This is an update to an earlier post I wrote about a planned shabu shabu bar in Irvine's Trabuco Grove shopping center called OOii Shabu Shabu. The restaurant was to occupy the space where a Daphne's once stood in the Kohl's-anchored complex on...

Shabu Shabu everywhere everywhere. Hoshi Shabu Shabu, an all-you-can-eat shabu shabu restaurant has opened in Brea in the Walmart-anchored plaza on Imperial and Kraemer. 2445 E Imperial Hwy., Brea, CA 92821 Miss Shabu Restaurant & Sake Bar, also...

Photo by @ocwmktgdirector I begin this review at the end, when our waiter, a chummy chap named Phil, dropped off the check and with it plastic cups of a sweet slushed-ice dessert called sikhye. I didn’t expect the icy treat, nor did I know it was...