JBBQ & Shabu Smithtown
Overview
JBBQ & Shabu Shabu introduces American diners to two other healthy & popular ways in which the Japanese enjoy their fine meats, vegetables & noodles.
Japanese chefs are often praised, & rightly so, for their many refined cooking techniques which elevate ingredients to world-class appeal. Most famous among Japanese cooking techniques is the art of “sushi” preparation. Eaters worldwide agree that enjoying fish & shellfish sushi-style is divine. But what happens to all the other fine foods grown & prepared in Japan that are not lucky enough to be served as part of a sushi meal?
The first cooking technique is the ancient one: grilling food right at the dinner table. Different than “hibachi” where a chef cooks on a big, rectangular griddle, this is where meats (mostly marinated) & vegetables are cooked by diners themselves on a grill surface over charcoal-aided flame. Once cooked to your favorite level of doneness, the grilled food is usually dipped in a variety of sauces. Draft beers, sake, & soju pair exceptionally well in this “yakiniku” style of cooking, as it is called in Japanese. This set-up may also remind diners of the Korean-style in-table barbecue grills (widely known as KBBQ). It would be fair to say that this is the Japanese equivalent & hence our name, JBBQ!
The other way to showcase quality ingredients is to simply add the fresh, uncooked ingredients for a brief time in a hot pot of a flavored broth of your choosing. “Shabu Shabu” literally means “swish swish” in Japanese & it cleverly describes the action of a diner using a small netted ladle or chopsticks to quickly cook foods (usually under 30 seconds) & then dip into sauces. You’ll be surprised how well this showcases the flavors of the thin-sliced meats, vegetables, & noodles you choose.
At JBBQ & Shabu Shabu, we give you the tools & the setup you need to try the freshest ingredients, minimally-processed, & all cooked without unnecessary cooking oils & fats. Our menu is offered all-you-can-eat (AYCE) all-day with few limitations. Choose just the JBBQ AYCE, or just the Shabu Shabu AYCE, or have both AYCE! We also have discount pricing for Children Under 5ft & Under 3ft.
At weekday Lunch time, we also offer set combo lunch meals designed for quicker service if requested.
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Google Reviews
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We came here for the daily lunch special and it was such a great deal! Our server for the day was Yang and she absolutely did a fantastic job of making sure our orders were delivered quickly and everything came out with no mistakes Definitely come before the lunch rush, this place is super popular and very clean. They’ll help you prepare the food and swap out your grill often so it’s brand new
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One of our absolute favorite places to come for dinner. One of my favorite spots for tokoyaki! The staff is always so great but we had a amazing experience with Miranda. She's a great, attentive waitress! The food is always great and the price is amazing for the portion sizes. Highly recommend!
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Good food, good service. They have some special where it's $23 all you can eat per person between 12 and 3pm and my group definitely took advantage of that. They have hot pot and barbecue and each person could choose around 5 things total from the menu at a time. You could mix and match it as well, for example choosing 2 things from the hotpot menu and 3 things from the barbeque menu. You could order more stuff later on in the 90 minute span (and you know I did). I was only interested in the barbecue so I chose different things from the BBQ menu. You gotta cook the meat yourself and I will say that the different meats we got such as the garlic chicken were well seasoned (received it raw of course, you have to cook it yourself). The different beefs that they have might be a little lacking in the seasoning department but being liberal in our usage of salt and butter, it was quite good. The server was friendly and explained everything well, making our first experience at Korean bbq an easy one. Servers were constantly walking by taking your empty bowls and replacing your burnt stove pans with clean ones. We probably had our pans swapped out 4 times in the span of 90 minutes and we didn't have to ask. They had a bowl filled with those little butters that you use to grease the pan before cooking the meats. They also had some sort of sauce station where I guess you can mix your own type of sauce so if anything is lacking in taste, I guess you can douse it in sauce. The woman who served us, I can't remember her name but she kept coming to our table to see if we needed anything. Overall, it was a very good experience and I hope to be back one day.
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This place is amazing. Great food portions + experience with reasonable pricing. Shout out to our server David. I’ve been here 3 times and brought a friend for her first time and he explained everything, was very attentive, gave great recommendations and made our experience even better than it already was.
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Celebrated my birthday this past Sunday. Had an amazing time. Our server was amazing! Our whole party had a good time. They even allowed us to bring in a store birthday cake !
