The only reason this is getting 2 stars is because our previous visit there was actually enjoyable. However, our recent visit there has soured me enough not to come back.
Food: 4/5 Stars
Service: 1 Star
Ambience: 2 Stars
If you plan on going there on a weekend, make reservations. This place gets packed!
As most Yelpers have already described, 1 Pot is a Chinese hot pot restaurant where each seat has their own burners to heat your own hot pot. You are given an order sheet where you can choose your soup base (sichuan pepper, beef, chicken, etc.) as well as choose your meat, carb and vegetable ingredients. This is actually 1 Pots redeeming factor since they offer a decent variety of tasty ingredients as well as the sauce station where you can mix together a ton of different sauces together.
What turned me off completely from this place is the service. I am used to the typical Chinatown "snarky / blunt" service we've all come to love. What really irked me was I saw more brain power from zombies in a Walking Dead episode than our servers that night.!
For some unfathomable reason, I think they accidentally turned on an invisibility cloak on my gf and I's table. They continuously gave the ingredients to the other tables surrounding us. We had to flag them down during the ENTIRE MEAL to bring us our food when they got turned away from the other tables. I knew it was going to be long night when our server had a clueless look on her face wandering around each table with our soup base. Maybe you should look for the table WITHOUT a hot pot yet? Like our table? Add in the unapologetic attitudes and it made for an unenjoyable dining experience.
We love the concept and really enjoyed the food. It's unfortunate that our servers seemed to have just come from a Walking Dead casting call. I'll assume they are amazing method actors and were still in character.