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| - Soyo is the place. You take the crowd and the food from L.A. K-town, place it in a cleaner-than-LA space in Vegas, throw in some easy-on-the-eyes servers, and you have Soyo, the barstaurant. This place is everything a Korean bar should be, and thankfully it's in Vegas. Now only if it was closer to Summerlin...
First the spot. Corner of a strip mall, interior with bench seats (my back no like) in center and walled booths on edge. Outside patio with ample tables and metal seats. Modern-ish, not quite-spartan décor. K-pop loud enough to be heard without drowning out the conversations. It's sufficiently bar-like except for the lack of TVs.
Second the service. This night there are 3 girls serving the entire place, with couple of bussers. Girls are hot. Service is all smiles and on-time, especially that one girl... she's really hot. We get one dish that came out missing an ingredient, but it's corrected right away. So spot-on service, or may be I'm just a bit biased here... Nah, I probably would have said the same if it was 3 guys serving. Except for the hot part.
Last the food. We ordered a makgeolli for quaff, rabokki (ramen & ddeokbokki), and flat dumplings for eats. It's a draft makgeolli, but I couldn't tell a difference. Not sure if I'm supposed to, I just drink them and they're good. Rabokki came without the ra, but was corrected quickly. Great dduk, firm & chewy. Very spicy, ample amount of fish cakes and 2 boiled eggs! Good stuff. Fried Mandu (dumplings) were filled with ground meat & vermicelli noodles. Dipped into the ddeokbokki sauce, it's da bomb.
Place was packed inside & half-full outside when we got there, filled up full during the evening, and then was half-full by the time we left. Lively crowd, good people-watching, and did I mention the servers? Good times.
Table-for-1 Factors: Korean + bar = bad for 1.
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