Two visits to Il Bun Ji. No complaints on the first meal; good meat in the Korean BBQ, prompt service. That's all I ask for in a Korean BBQ joint.
I went again more recently and oy. What a mess.
The one waiter (Yup. Thass right. Uno. Ein. Ichi.) was "serving" all the tables. That night had six tables occupied, one of which was a boozy party of 8 that was hogging our lone frazzled waiter.
I kind of felt sorry for poor schmo. Sure we had intolerable waits for each of our dishes but it wasn't his fault that his co-worker(s) went MIA.
But when the other waitstaff hit the road, they must've kidnaped the chef too. Cuz whoever sliced the ribeye for our BBQ did a Jeffrey Dahmer hack job on the meat; uneven slabs of beef that were paper thin on one end and thick as a deck of cards on the other.
The kimchi jjigae that came with our BBQ was a piping hot crock of meh-ness.
If the food is good and cheap then bad service doesn't bug me. But spending sixty bucks on a meal for two, after tax and tip...well, badly butchered meat and off-in-Siberia waiters deliver a harsher sting.
I *might* give Il Bun Ji another chance to redeem itself but I'm sure as hell gonna do a headcount of the waitstaff before I commit to a meal.