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| - This is located next the skating rink and target on the corner of 43rd and Peoria. There used to be another Korean restaurant at this same location, but was closed down a few years ago, may it RIP.
So.... here's the good: the Kalbi Tang (short rib soup - $12) was pretty good - lots of meat, good flavor. The Dolsot BiBimBap (stone bowl rice ~$11) had a good variety of veggies, but overall was only average; the bowl just wasn't hot enough to get the rice crispy. The kimchi (the napa and the radish) were good and spicy. The service was really good and attentive.
Here's the bad: The banchan (side dishes) - at korean restaurants, you get a variety of banchan with your meal, which is FREE with free refills. At this place, we each got a divided dish of 3 banchan - sweetened potatoes, cucumber kimchi, and potato salad. Kinda cool to get our own, definitely not cool to only get 3 banchan.
THEN, we got 1 divided dish of regular kimchi, radish kimchi, and the SAME cucumber kimchi we all had for the whole table. So that's 5 banchan TOTAL. Uh. That sucks. And 3 of them weren't even good! seriously. the potatoes were gross. rawr.
The soondubu ($10-11)was pretty tasteless -they didn't ask how spicy my bro wanted it, and it was really meh.
The pricing is pretty standard - nothing special. Nothing that would drive me out here again. Thankfully, I have a few more months left of living near Koreatown in socal, so I'll eat it up before I have to move back to Phx. Hopefully, Seoul Grill can step it up by then. They can afford at least adding a veggie pajun or marinated soybeans to their banchan.
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