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| - This one's a bit delayed but after seeing a posting on BlogTO i felt it was right to give my input on this place... McRamyun.
Located at the corner of McCaul and Baldwin Street, you will find the area slowiy turning into a hipster area but quite comforting. Parking is easy to find on McCaul and everything is walkable.
Once you arrive to the restaurant, you will find a very comforting patio at the front and a fresh spacious design inside. They have a large bar on the right with a limited selection of alcohol. One beer tap (Sapporo) and a large stack of Soju bottles at the back. As of right now they won't allow any alcohol on the patio so you'll need to have your beer indoors on a nice sunny day.
As for the food, well i was surprised at the selections they had. As the name of the restaurant states, it is mainly a Ramyun restaurant. The menu has a large list of Ramyun choices taking over the whole middle section of menu. I ordered their most popular McRamyun. It is half size larger than their normal Ramyun bowls. They give you two pieces of pork belly, few slices of grilled chicken, veggies, dried and cooked ramyun and one whole soft yolk egg. The broth that comes with it is a stone pot stew broth. Something similar to Jjamppong. This ramyun was $13.95. A little pricey for a bowl of instant noodles but definitely worth trying once. I would likely try the other ramyun's for my next round.
Another popular dish is their McChicken Wing. For the A La Carte menu they will sell them in 3 or 10 pieces. But they have a combo where you get 1/2 lb (4 pieces) with a pint of Sapporo for $9.45 which is quite a good value. The chicken is served on a plate as if you were at a normal bar, with celery and carrots. It comes with two sauces, caesar/blue cheese and some hot and sweet sauce. I have to be honest that I love the chicken. It is battered in crispy ramyun making it super crunchy. It was tasty and still juicy. I would definitely come back for this.
One big disappointment was the Asparagus wrap. It is 4 sprigs of asparagus and crispy ramyun wrapped in rice wrap and deep-fried. They serve it on a massive plate making it look very minimal. I don't think it was worth paying $4.49 for it.
The service was great. They were quick, informative and they were able to communicate the dishes quite well. Being a korean restaurant you would expect some language restrictions, with the exception of those hipster korean joints lately, but this was definitely quite pleasant.
I would say that this is more of a bar atmosphere, not a sit down restaurant. I would have Sapporo and their Ramyun chicken any time. Too bad they won't allow alcohol on the patio. I will definitely be back. I sure hope they did their homework when it came to the 'Mc' referencing of their restaurant and food. I would hate to see this place get into trouble and leave me without their chicken.
Ratings:
Atmosphere - 3 out of 5
Service - 4 out of 5
Food - restaurant style 2 out of 5, bar style 3 out of 5.
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