Kaizen Shabu - Santa Ana

It's soooo good here! The Tom Yum is delicious, the chicken wings have so much taste I can?t even describe them. ????? very impressed, super clean, cool art work in the hallway. Great Japanese whiskeys too.

Friendly owner. The meat quality doesn't seem as good as other places. Got the kobe and wasn't as soft as I'm used to. Prices are also pretty high. Get the chicken wings, those are good and juicy.

Love this place so much that my girlfriend and I had to bring our friends! A couple of them had a bad experience with Shabu in the past, but Kaizen definitely made up for it! The food is delicious and quality, the staff is so friendly and Lamson the owner is an amazing human!

I am in between a 4.5 and a 5 stars. We had a reservation to this place and when we got there, the host kept pushing us to the back to wait. We weren?t clear to what he wanted and kept waiting in the wrong spot and kept pushing back. This place is street metered parking or parking in the lot with a meter. They had outside dining, fortunately, we were able to sit inside because I was cold. The wait to be seated was less than 5 minutes. When we got seated, we were greeted by the owner. He introduced himself and gave us hot sake on the house, which was nice! I am a weak drinker and my boyfriend was driving, so unfortunately, some of it had to go to waste. If you are new joiner and not driving or a weak drinker, I suggest getting the sake! We ordered two combo plates and two cocktails. The combo plates comes with 2 meats, veggies, sauce, broth, and rice. One of the combo plates I ordered angus beef and pork belly and the other one I ordered angus beef and korabuta park. They were sooo good, especially the ponzu sauce! They didn?t advertise this, but ask for their special chili oil! It was very spicy with just 3 drops. I love spicy, so I?d come back just for the chili oil. For cocktails, we ordered the Sunset Rio and Passion of the Shito. Both were good. Order came out fast. The service was good. The restaurant was very busy, so we understand. They seemed a bit forgetful and didn?t check on us often, but they were very friendly and tried to be helpful. We kindly reminded our needs. Overall, I?d definitely come back for the food!

The food was amazing. Very flavorful, the crispy tofu and fried fish balls were very good. The staff was super friendly and on top of things. I got a great drink recommendation from our server. The sunset rio which was very refreshing. The spicy miso was very flavorful and definitely worth it.