I seriously can't believe I'm writing about the SAME place that everyone is raving about here! I feel left out! On 1/19/16 my best friend and I decided that we wanted to try a Korean restaurant and this was the first listing that came up on Yelp. Before I continue to review this place, I want to say that this was the SECOND time we tried this place and were disappointed all over again.
The FIRST time we tried this place it was in the summer time last year. A girl from work mentioned good things about this place and the three of us girls wanted to try it. We ordered the dumplings (decent) but we also ordered one of the $35 platters that serve 2-3 people. Well, my best friend and I tried the platter and looked at each other right away with surprise. There were sliced hot dogs and SPAM in our bowls. How can ANY Asian restaurant that claims to serve Asian food give us dishes with SPAM and sliced hot dogs?!? Disappointing BUT a second chance was deserved.
Now on to our SECOND trip to Seoul Garden on 1/19/16. My best friend and I had HIGH hopes for this place and wanted to try it just the two of us. It was just before lunchtime and it was not busy when we arrived as there was one other table being served. I had ordered the spicy Bimbim Bop w/beef and my friend ordered a spicy dish of Yook Gae Jang. Right away we were disappointed again because the Barley tea they serve you while order was NOT Barley tea at all! It was slightly flavored HOT water. Then the small side dishes arrived right after ordering. None of them were good. Our main dishes were NOT any better. My dish was room temperature and there was enough beef in the bowl to fill a tea spoon. The sauce wasn't even spicy it was SWEET! VERY disappointing. My friend's soup wasn't much better. The broth had NO flavor! Her soup should have been a SPICY beef flavored broth but it wasn't. It was water with SOME spice and NO SALT was added. Overall, TWO stars because the food was a MAJOR letdown in an otherwise nice, small place to sit down with friends.