KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot Menu With Prices (2026)

The KPOT Korean BBQ menu is not really a menu in the usual sense — it is a price list with an enormous ingredient catalogue attached. You pay one flat all-you-can-eat rate depending on the day and the hour, and then everything on the Korean BBQ side and everything on the hot pot side is included. This page sets out every KPOT price tier, what is genuinely included, what costs extra, and how to actually order so the meal is worth what you paid.

KPOT prices — every tier

Children aged three and under eat free with a paying adult. Prices vary slightly by market — locations in higher-cost metros run a dollar or two above the figures above — but the tier structure is identical everywhere.

The gap that matters: lunch is $12 cheaper than weekend dinner for the same food. Nothing is removed from the lunch selection. If you can eat Korean barbecue at midday on a Wednesday, you are getting the identical meal for two thirds of the price. This is the single most useful thing to know about KPOT.

How the table works

Every KPOT table has a grill in the middle and an induction burner beside it, so you run Korean BBQ and hot pot simultaneously. You order in rounds from a tablet, raw ingredients arrive, and you cook them yourself. There is no waiting for a kitchen.

Two practical rules. First, order in small rounds — the grill fits about six pieces at a time, and food ordered faster than you can cook it sits and goes cold. Second, most locations enforce a two-hour table limit and charge for excessive waste, so ordering ten plates at once is both bad strategy and potentially expensive.

Korean BBQ meats — all included

Everything in this section is covered by the flat AYCE price:

• Bulgogi — Marinated beef, sweet and soy-forward. The default first order.
• Beef Short Rib (LA Galbi) — Flanken-cut, the best thing on the grill side. Order it early while the grill is clean.
• Pork Belly (Samgyupsal) — Unmarinated. Takes the longest to cook and renders fat that flavours everything after it.
• Spicy Pork Belly — Gochujang-marinated.
• Spicy Beef Bulgogi
• Lemongrass Beef — The most distinctive marinade on the list.
• Honey Garlic Pork
• Cajun Chicken / Garlic Chicken / Spicy Chicken
• Lamb Shoulder — Underordered and excellent.
• Beef Tongue — Available at selected locations only.
• Head-On Shrimp and Squid

Hot pot broths and ingredients — all included

Five broths, and you can split the pot to take any two:

• Original Beef — Mild, the safe choice.
• Spicy Miso — The most popular.
• Tom Yum — Sour and lemongrass-forward.
• Mushroom — Vegetarian.
• Half-and-half split — Take the divided pot. There is no reason not to.

Into the pot, all included: sliced ribeye and pork belly cut for hot pot, beef meatballs, pork and shrimp meatballs, fish tofu, fish balls, imitation crab, udon, glass noodles, ramen, enoki and shiitake mushrooms, napa cabbage, baby bok choy, firm tofu, sweet corn, lotus root and kabocha pumpkin.

Premium add-ons — these cost extra

This is where bills surprise people. The following are not included in the AYCE price:

A single king crab leg costs more than the entire weekday dinner AYCE price. The add-ons are genuinely good, but understand you are buying them on top of an already-paid buffet — a table of four ordering two premium items each can double the bill.

Is KPOT worth the money?

Do the arithmetic against ordering the same food à la carte at a conventional Korean barbecue restaurant. A single order of LA galbi typically runs $28 to $38, bulgogi $24 to $30, and a hot pot for one $18 to $25. Two of those three items exceeds the KPOT weekend price on their own.

The break-even is roughly two full meat orders. Below that, you are subsidising other tables. Above it, KPOT is straightforwardly the cheaper way to eat Korean barbecue in America.

Practical advice for a first visit

• Go at lunch on a weekday if the price matters. Same food, $12 less.
• Take the split broth. Spicy miso on one side, original beef on the other.
• Order LA galbi in the first round while the grill is clean.
• Skip the rice and noodles early. They are included, and they are also how the format wins — filling up on carbohydrate is the point of putting them there.
• Book ahead at weekends. KPOT locations run long waits Friday through Sunday, and the two-hour limit is enforced.
• Do not over-order. Most locations charge for significant waste.

KPOT vs American barbecue chains

They are barely the same category. American barbecue chains sell you a fixed plate someone else cooked; KPOT sells you access to a grill and unlimited raw ingredients. If you eat a normal amount, the American chains are cheaper. If you eat a lot, or you want variety, nothing on the American side competes.

Banchan and the sauce bar

KPOT sets a small banchan selection on every table — typically kimchi, seasoned bean sprouts, pickled radish and a cold cucumber dish — and refills them free. There is also a self-serve sauce bar, which is the part most first-timers underuse.

The three things to build there:

• Ssamjang — Fermented soybean and chilli paste. This is what goes in the lettuce wrap with grilled meat. Non-negotiable.
• Sesame oil with salt and black pepper — A shallow dish of sesame oil, a pinch of salt, a heavy grind of pepper. Dip unmarinated pork belly or brisket in it. This is how it is eaten in Korea and it transforms plain meat.
• Hot pot dipping sauce — Sesame paste, soy, garlic, spring onion, a little chilli oil and a spoon of the broth to loosen it. Everything you lift out of the pot goes through this.

Skipping the sauce bar is the single most common mistake at an AYCE Korean barbecue, and it costs nothing to fix.

A strategy for actually getting your money's worth

All-you-can-eat restaurants are designed around a simple assumption: you will fill up on cheap carbohydrate before you eat much of the expensive protein. Rice, noodles, corn and potato are included for exactly that reason. Working against that design is straightforward:

1. Round one: LA galbi and lemongrass beef on the grill, plus the broth ordering so it comes to temperature. No rice, no noodles.
2. Round two: Pork belly and lamb shoulder. Start dropping ribeye and meatballs into the pot.
3. Round three: Whatever you liked most in round one, repeated. Add mushrooms and greens to the pot.
4. Round four: Noodles into the broth, which by now has an hour of meat and vegetables in it and is the best thing on the table.

The broth at the end is the reward for cooking in the right order. Udon dropped into an hour-old spicy miso pot is genuinely one of the best things you can eat for $32.99.

Hot pot vs Korean BBQ: which side to prioritise

Run both. The grill needs watching and the pot does not, so the pot absorbs your attention gaps. Tables that use only the grill spend the whole meal cooking; tables that use only the pot get bored.

Going with a group

KPOT is a four-to-six person restaurant. Two people cannot use a grill and a pot efficiently at the same time, and eight people at one table means everyone waits for grill space.

What KPOT does not do

• No dessert included at most locations beyond soft-serve or shaved ice where available.
• Alcohol is separate and priced at normal restaurant rates — soju and beer are not part of the AYCE.
• Vegetarians pay full price for half a restaurant. The mushroom broth and hot pot vegetables are good, but a vegetarian is paying $32.99 for what is effectively a vegetable hot pot.
• It is not traditional Korean barbecue. Combining Korean BBQ with Chinese-style hot pot at one table is an American format. The food is good; the concept is not something you would find in Seoul.

How KPOT compares to independent Korean BBQ

An independent Korean barbecue restaurant will usually give you better meat quality, a broader banchan spread and no time limit, but at à la carte prices — see the full Korean BBQ menu guide for typical per-order pricing. Many independents also run their own AYCE, often $2 to $6 cheaper than KPOT with a narrower selection.

What KPOT actually sells is breadth and predictability: fifteen meats, five broths, forty-odd hot pot ingredients, an ordering tablet, and the same experience in eighty cities. If you know Korean barbecue well, an independent will usually feed you better. If you are introducing four people to it at once, KPOT is the easier room.