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I came here wanting to like this place, after having read the review in the Isthmus. I've been eating Korean food for 15 or so years and have sampled restaurants in many major cities.
Like almost every Korean restaurant everywhere, the decor was rather cheap and not creative or particularly stylish.
The food was not bad. However, to my taste it was not better than New Seoul, the other Korean restaurant in town, and the side dishes were fewer and the portions were less generous. This is disappointing, since marketing for the restaurant, including the Facebook page, suggests that there is no real Korean food in Madison until Sol's.
I'd like to see a big effort to differentiate this place before I consider returning. That doesn't have to include better decor, which certainly would help. But it has to be clearly better and more interesting than other places, and from the perspective of non-Koreans.
P.S. I also thought Coreana, which closed several years ago, was almost such a place.
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