HuHot Mongolian Grill in Topeka

Why are the sauces so corn starch thickened?????….it’s goopy and gravy like…I put extra sauce and could still barely taste any flavor….even the soup had a gravy like consistency which tasted worse as it cooled.Not a huge fan of how the cooks flipped raw food (MEATand then flipped my basically done food with the raw food spatulas..within the same 10 seconds…gross.Asked how much the crab rangoons were and was told they come in 4,7, or 12 and she talked about the “all you can eat” thing which made us think crab Rangoon was just included since she didn’t answer when asked….it is not included btw. So the cost of the meal was a heckuva surprise….not worth that much at all for one trip or one plate (for me), 2 sodas, and 2 appetizers, total pre tip for 2 guests $55.00. So, $27.00 a person plus tip…not worth it for one trip through the buffet.Should have gotten Thai food for less and woulda had leftovers….this was so bland and such a waste of money.Plus side….the soda wasn’t flat….and I was impressed at how hard the gents were working at the grill just not a fan of the cross contamination thing 😬. Waitress seemed good at keeping drinks full…Second time there in ten years and my opinions consistent with the last time…ugh, gross, overpriced, bland.I wish I could leave a better review…but in all honesty, I shouldn’t have bothered trying it again.To Management: With 2 sodas and 2 appetizers and the meal. But we had NO idea what was what cost-wise even after we asked the waitress.The same thing happened last time…prices should be clearly marked on a menu on the table or something not something I have to beg the waitress for….transparency and clarity would be nice.

Food was great; atmosphere was good as was the location. Enjoyed!

Ive been to several OTHER chains that focus on Mongolian Grill but HuHot is notable for the variety of ingredients and the huge selection of sauces with a rainbow of hot spices available. Thoroughly enjoyed building huge bowls of veggies with different flavor profiles and seeing what my friends came up with. An interesting experience compounded in awesomeness by the great ingredient choices. Almost went back TWO days in a row but Ill save it for another trip.

Fantastic good food, place was busy waitress was hustling

Went to huhot today for lunch.While waiting, I observed a waitress grab a rag and dunk it it dirty water used to clean the tables, and with her wet hands, rag in hand, grabbed forks and napkins to seat the next diners.Talk about gross. Those diners had no idea that they were eating with gross and dirty forks.This is a health hazard.How many times a day does she do that???

This place is great love coming here they cook the food in front of you the server are very friendly it seems every time we go there they know us already its a great restaurant for family .

Great food. Carries chopsticks. Wish bowls were bigger

Be ready to use all day restroom after you eat here, food not fully cooked

A great place to eat. The service was excellent.

The food was really tasty. The drinks were really good also. We all had an enjoyable experience. Thank you

We came at 8pm on a Thursday. Yes they close at 9pm. However they where cleaning and putting everything away even with a full house, a bunch of people still eating. Other wise was good. Had to ask for several things to be brought back out.

A great Mongolian grill with lots of selection and a combination of sauces yield near limitless combination. A great place to eat!

HuHot is an absolute favorite. We traveled an hour to experience this meal for my grandmothers birthday. Definitely didnt disappoint! Its buffet style, so you get exactly what you want, and then they cook it in front of you. Always a pleasant experience!

First service clean and friendly environment. The fact that Im vegan and the wide selection of vegetables to stir fry with vegan sauces without standing. I went here for a romantic lunch with my fiance and we enjoyed ourselves recommended for everyone

Wonderful food our waitress chyanne was absolutely amazing best waitress I have had in a very long time at any restaurant

Great meal at a great price and the best server experience Ive had in years with chyanne so attentive never let my drunk go empty and a great up beat personality

Great food. Amazing service. Great place to poop

One of my favorite places to eat! Always delicious. Lots of variety of options to create your one of a kind dish. Staff is always friendly and wonderful service.

Great food. And I love that you get to pick your poison then watch some guys cook it up for you. They are great at what they do an deserve tips. Fr Fr. Get small plates till you learn what you like so you can try more. Always fresh.

Every restaurant Ive gone to has been great. And this one wasnt a let down. Great food and friendly atmosphere and staff

The foods for grilling were good, but we never got the rice we ordered, although the waitress was attentive to our needs.

Great food and friendly staff. This location is small enough to be intimate but large enough of a chain to be consistent. My party really enjoyed our meal.

Excellent variety of combinations of food Ive never tried before but found that I love them!A great place for intimate dining or families!There is always a different combination of flavors to try!

Very good food. Choose your bowl of meat, seafood, noodles, vegetables, and sauces. They fry it in front of you. Will come back.

Loved the food. So, many veritys to choose from to make you plate

Great place and food!It was the first time that I went to a place like this. I had fun choosing the food I wanted on my plate and I liked watching how they turned it into something delicious. :)

One of my favorite lunch spots. Food is always fresh and fast and you will most certainly leave very full.

With the right cooks, this place is amazing! You grab a bowl or two, gather your ingredients, pour on the sauces/oils, and hand it over to the cooks and they will start cooking it.On the other hand, without the right cooks, expect your food to be contaminated with other peoples food, so if you are allergic to certain things, Id stay away just in case or go when its not busy.

Love this place! You get a bowl of raw meats, veggies, noodles. They cook it fresh in front of you on a flat top! Fun place and environment!!

Love the fact you get to pick your own food and they cook it, right there in front of you. Good selection from the buffet but I wish they had some newbie suggestions in-store, I didnt know what sauces would be good,and it took a couple tries; I like that its an unlimited buffet for a decent price.

As always its great service and food stocked. Workers were very friendly and made sure we was taken care of.

We just left there very disappointed.. the sauces were a mess. The waitress was horrible Not happy at all. Very unusual ..we eat there a lot!

Terrible service. Food was nasty. Took 35 minutes for mac and cheese and there’s never any waiters asking you if you need something. They serve kraft mac and cheese.

So delicious! Clean and friendly. The booth seats are pretty uncomfortable, Ive sat in many different locations and theyre all pretty bad. There is the option of table seating too though.

The restaurant definitely needs some deep cleaning done. You can feel build up on the tables. The bowls available for the buffet were clearly older. You could tell by how faded out most of them were. There was food leftovers on the dishes that were out in the buffet too. The meats and vegetables were very cold (the food is rawand clean. The sauce bar on the other hand was a bit scary. The sauces were mixed up, they were out of some and the bar and floor were a mess. The cooks we’re doing a great job keeping the grill top clean but the sides, floor and counter top were dirty. I only went up once and left. I literally felt like my skin was crawling sitting in there. It has potential to be a nice restaurant with some deep cleaning and hiring more servers. For the price it wasn’t worth the risk of getting sick.

We were on vacation, and my husband surprised me and wanted to treat me to HuHot. This is a sacrifice for him because he has had negative experiences in others where we lost a lot of time and money following lines of people who get two bowls vs. one.As usual, this HuHot doesnt enforce the one bowl rule. Two young men in front of me demonstrated why this needs to enforced. The cooks at the grill have to take the time to ask if both bowls belong to the person; in this case the young man said they did. Then he asked for them to be cooked separately. At least the next young man stacked his three bowls together and avoided the question. His plate just took longer to cook.My first plate looked great. When I began to eat; however, a piece of my chicken was cold, and so was a piece of my baby corn. I tried something else, and it was also cold. I called my waitress over, and I told her why I wasnt eating it. She sent the manager to me. I told him I was concerned for myself and other diners and didnt want anyone to get sick. He thanked me. I stated the food stayed on what seemed to be a typical time and suggested perhaps the grill should be made hotter. I also noted I had just come behind the entire grill being used. He said he would check the grill but suggested I tell the cook I wanted my food, "Well done." The manager said he would cook my next plate. He accepted my food (I gave him a smaller amount than I had the first timeand began cooking it then told the older gentleman something and went to do other things.I received my second plate and the food was hot all the way through. The manager came to check and I told him it was "better." Then I got a third plate; the unfortunate fact is when one says "Well done," Its not just the meat, its also the vegetables and the noodles. This plate was chewier than the other plates.Overall I was disappointed in this restaurant, and I am sorry to say that, because I adore HuHot usually. But, to be a good guide and a good customer, I have to give management the truth no matter how unsavory it may be, pun not intended, because I believe if they dont know whats wrong, they cant fix it.

This place is nasty. The walls where you drop off your food was dripping with other people sauce and had evidently not been cleaned in some time. They cleaned the grill with a window squgie and scraper that never got even rinsed off. Sauces were mixed up with others and the meat was sliced so thin it came out like over cooked jerky. I wouldnt feed this to my enemy. No management staff on duty at all. Waitress was very nice. Plates and cups were not cleaned. Wife had a lemon seed in her water that was stuck to the cup. Wth.

Quality food, excellent service freshly prepared on their round grill. You pick what you want, add your favorite sauces. Sit down and enjoy. A+!

Love HuHot. You can make yourself all kinds of plates (combinations). You will aventually get one plate you truly enjoy. That will become your "go to".No reason to stuff you plate. You can always go back for 2nd or 3rd or 4th.Enjoy

Waitress was not good whatsoever.. empty drinks and acted like we were a nuisance. Then the food was the equivalent to the cheapest bag of frozen Chinese food you can get from Walmart. Not worth the time or money. Came in hungry and left hungry. Not happy. I gave one star because I had to, otherwise, I would have left zero stars because that is the rating of my experience.

Too cheap to include some sauce packets and plasticware with my $58 order? Really???The eggrolls are excellent. Rest of the order not so much. For wanting you to choose "10" sauces for each entree.... Im sitting here staring at some pretty naked noodles without any sauce clinging to them at all.. that mostly resemble sad brown tinted spaghetti.

Great food, clean atmosphere. Just keep in mind they dont allow take-home boxes, so if you have lots of extra food left youll just have to leave it! I understand its policy, but kind of a disappointment to someone like me who doesnt eat a whole lot and likes to keep all the food I pay for, making it stretch for two meals if possible.

Ive eaten at this place twice. And Ive eaten there in other States. And I love the food It keeps me coming back. however The one in Topeka Kansas waters down all of their sauces Leaving it near flavorless. They are missing several of the vegetables or ingredients. That location could certainly use a little help. Other than that the place is great When its kept clean.

This place was incredible!! So many choices..You could eat there everyday and have different dishes Everytime. Their menus even have recipes for some of your favorite dishes (Mongolian, Thai, etc.telling you what ingredients to use to create them. YUMMY!! A must experience.

HuHot is my favorite restaurant. After being gone from Kansas for 11 years, HuHot was the very first thing I wanted to do when coming back!The food is always good, I usually see the same person at the grill. I left a sweater here for over 2 weeks. I thought I left it at the park, and last time we went I saw it behind the hostess table! There is something to be said about the integrity of the workers here! Each woman who works here had over 2 weeks to steal my sweater, and nobody did. I got this sweater because of the open front, it was perfect for wrapping each one of my newborn babies in it. It is a very special sweater to me thank you so much, another reason to love HuHot

Disorganized, tables were sticky, and they use standard buffet glass cups. Cooks were helpful and the food was good.

I had never been to a HuHot before. I LOVED it!!! Cant wait to go back!

It has been about 10 years since I have been to a HuHot Mongolian Grill. I found the Topeka one to be clean, friendly, and quick to serve. I was a little discouraged with the diluted nature of the garlic oils in the sauces. I felt I placed a significant amount of “sauces” on the entree but after it was cooked, to the food was rather bland. I was looking for a strong garlic flavor with 9-10 ladles of Garlic oil.The selection was fantastic on the bars from the meats to the veggies to the final toppings. Our server was amazing, always smiling and came to the table at just the right timing. The grill master was a blast and engaged the customers which I feel gives it a personal touch. Finally if you are practicing any of the various eating lifestyles, this HuHot caters to many of them i.e. Keto, Atkins, Weight watchers, etc. I would definitely recommend this place just make sure you really “load up” on the oils/sauces.

I give HuHot five stars because there is no place in Topeka that I would rather go for a reasonably fast and healthy meal at a decent price. This is not a gourmet/fine dining experience as many negative reviewers might suggest. For a $10 lunch, <$15 dinner, you can choose from a very good selection of meats and fish, noodles, veggies and nearly endless sauces to build the dish you wish. The hibachi cooks are quick to cook what you select. You can return as many times as you want. You will spend nearly the same for one of the premium combos at McDs or Hardees, so no, not expensive or overpriced. Interestingly, if you read the negative reviews here, notice how they cant spell or construct a sentence, as that probably says much about their judgement. Service can slow down during busy rushes, but that is to be expected.

Overpriced for the poor variety of meats that offers. If you claim that you are a trend setter than, step up to it! The waitress was 5 times at the table asking something, giving the impression that you have to eat up and leave, but first leave the tip! At the entrance they said that the price was 9.99/person, but did not mention that the beverage was extra. Only the cooks are great, everything else is just overestimated.