Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Restaurant - Korean jar place

Location: On Hamby, in the vicinity of Lester Gate 1; restaurant walls have dark wood crosshatching with ceramic jars in the cubby-holes . They have parking.
This is an aesthetically pleasing Korean BBQ restaurant. One side of the menu has meats to put on the grill, the other has Korean "homestyle" meals. The menu is English, but doesn't seem to cover all the stuff on the Japanese menu. There is a special (<2500y)> (approx 800Y) was disappointing - it was lacking in smoky / roasted sesame flavor (which usually comes from frying the beef and veg before putting them over the rice) and they did not provide spicy korean red sauce, which for me is key. The kimchee not great and the serving size was small for the price. Beer was standardly priced.
So the attractiveness of the place does not quite make up for the somewhat lacking cuisine, which is a touch on the expensive side.