An all-you-can-eat Korean restaurant where diners cook their meals at the table has opened near the Target store on Carpenter Rd.
KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot features thirty-seven tables equipped with hot pots and grills, along with buffet-style stations for sauces, hot ingredients, desserts, and fruit. The full bar includes cocktails, soju, sake, beers, and wines.
Customers’ first choice is whether to order from the hot pot or the barbecue menu. Lunch is $20.99, and dinner is $30.99, unless you want both hot pot and barbecue—then it’s $5 more.
A broad array of soup broths, vegetables, meats, seafood, tofu, and noodles combine for countless custom-made creations.
“There is an event to it, where you actually get to cook the food in front of you yourself,” says general manager Jeff Yeung, “So it’s not just a meal. It’s kind of like a meal slash an activity.”
Expected to employ about sixty-five, the franchised location in a former Lane Bryant clothing store is the latest of about eighty KPOTs nationwide, with more than 100 anticipated by year’s end.
KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot, 3769 Carpenter. (734) 585–0597. Sun.–Thurs. noon–10:30 p.m., Fri. & Sat. noon–11:30 p.m. thekpot.com
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