>>They were a kind of all-you-can-eat place but centered around a
>>"Mongolian BBQ", one of those places with the giant gas-fired griddle
>>where you pick your ingredients out of a buffet and the chefs stir-fry
>>them in front of you on that big griddle.
>
>That sounds very similar to Fire+Ice in
>Cambridge, which I miss going to very much... and which is apparently
>no longer there, though the website says there's one in Boston. (As
>an aside, that's the farthest-flung chain I've ever seen. Anaheim,
>San Francisco, Lake Tahoe... and Boston. And nothing in between. :)
>
>--G.

Yeah, judging from the website, it's a similar theme.
A small version used to be common in the AYCE chinese buffet places around here, but it seems to have faded away over the years.