Spacious & stylish eatery featuring Chinese hot pot tables, plus a conveyor belt of food options. Based on 625 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.3 stars. Price $$
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ Delivery
Address:
1952 S El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94403
Phone: (650) 315-2827
Hours
| Friday | 11 AM–3 PM, 5–10 PM |
| Saturday | 11 AM–10 PM |
| Sunday | 11 AM–10 PM |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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11 AM–3 PM, 5–9:30 PM
Hours might differ
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| Tuesday | 11 AM–3 PM, 5–9:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 11 AM–3 PM, 5–9:30 PM |
| Thursday | 11 AM–3 PM, 5–9:30 PM |
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Reservations: seapotusa.com
Reviews
Joanna H Ye
This is a delicious buffet hotpot restaurant. There are many guests here, and all the guests after six o’clock have to wait for their seats at the door. From the outside, this shop is not big. After entering, I found that the space inside is actually very large and the ventilation is good. Great! There is a TV on the wall, but I believe few people will pay attention to it ~ ~ ~ because I didn’t find it until I finished paying. All the sauces here are self-help, including sesame sauce, sweet noodle sauce, Chili sauce and sauces I can’t name. There are also snacks such as fried dough sticks, spring rolls, doughnuts and so on. You can keep getting it until you are full. Everyone has a small hot pot, and you can choose your own soup base. Meat can also be ordered from time to time. Other vegetables, melons, seafood and other hot dishes are supplied by the revolving belt. It’s about forty-three dollars for one person included tip. You can try it. It’s delicious!
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R B
Firstly, I like how Seapot has a parking lot. Granted, I arrived just before prime hours. It definitely beats fighting for street parking in downtown San Mateo. Even though menu was all you can eat, the protein portions were generous and they didn’t try to slow you down. I ordered lamb, pork belly(x2), angus beef (x2), my photos are all single orders. The soup bases were flavorful, spicy pot and tomato soup. The only drawback for ordering two bases is that the meat cooled the soup down faster and it took a minute to warm back up, not much of a complaint though. The conveyor belt was pretty convenient compared to other hotpot restaurants, maybe slightly less options but still a decent amount of veggies/seafood, and maybe could have had a few more desserts . I initially started with low expectations. Overall, I was extremely satisfied with my meal and I would gladly come back again.
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Angelica K
This Seapot is amazing! Definitely a treat or special occasion kinda place since it’s a bit pricey per person but you can’t beat the DIY all you can eat style and fun experience of hotpot and BBQ grill, either one or the other or both
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3dogs1monkey
My brother came to visit from SoCal. We decided to try Seapot in San Mateo. It was amazingly a nice restaurant, the place is airy big, the parking lot is big enough so we have parking space when we got there at lunch. My sister loves the vegetables train that’s running nonstop except a few times to load. She kept taking all the nice and fresh veggies and shrimps. It even had beef tripes which I have to take my family here to try because my daughter loves tripes. Clams, mussels, dumplings, quite a few eatable dishes running through.
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Dani
Love the atmosphere and the service was great! The angus and the ribeye were delicious. Not a huge fan of lamb in general, but it wasn’t too bad. Accidentally picked up my friend’s cut. However having tried it, I can say that it’s more flavorful than other hotpot restaurants I’ve been too for lamb lovers. I like the sauce booth, lots of choices. The pineapple was a nice touch to cleanse my palette with all the beef. The conveyor belt was a nice touch, definitely stocked up on the enoki mushrooms.
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Hop
All you can eat, my happy place. It’s really difficult to go wrong with Seaport locations. High quality, fresh, everything. I think they need maybe one more sauce area since the line for the sauces can be long, but it goes fast so it’s not a bother.
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april zheng
AYCE at Seapot! The wide variety of flavorful herbs, fresh proteins, seafood, and veggies sound delightful. You can pick whatever you like from the conveyor belt. Price is reasonable for the quality of ingredients.
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Orly Liba
Simply delicious and so much variety of both salads, sauces, hot pot dishes on the conveyor belt (seafood, vegetables, tofu…) and even desserts.
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Helen W.
I haven’t found any other ayce hotpot in this area yet. This place is really good value for what you pay especially when food prices are so high right now. It does not compare to haidilao in terms of sauce bar, but you’ll come out with a much cheaper bill and imo the food is very good.
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D Chu
Reserve ahead of time!! When we got there at dinner time, people were waiting over 2 hrs! The food was amazing, strong flavors and great marinates. The veggies and dumplings on conveyer belt were solid. The issue was half our hot pot burners were not working, which took 20+ minutes to fix. Another issue was that our hot pot meat orders got lost? A manager had to retrieve our orders, I guess a waiter was giving ours away to other tables?
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