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| - The BBQ here is top notch! The prices are comparable to most of the Korean-style AYCE downtown but I felt the quality of meat was generally better. I especially liked how many of the options were marinated in different sauces.
I probably would have given five stars but unfortunately, they misplaced our reservations. I called 3 days in advance to put in a reservation for 7:45, and was sure it was the right day, location and time (as I always try to have the person taking the reservation repeating the reservation back to me to confirm). However, when we got there they just added us to the end of the waiting list (which was ridiculously long, definitely try to make reservations a few days in advance if you are trying to come on a weekend night).
We felt a bit forlorn and ignored, but we ended up trying to be a bit more assertive and luckily I had the call in my phone history so I could prove that I called this store location for a few minutes three days ago and they were able to seat us about 25 minutes after our original reservation time. (Which I appreciate as I understand the walk-in wait times were crazy)
The service was incredible once we were seated. It was nice that you order all the meats individually by unit, and the waiters used ipads to accurately take the orders. They also came in super fast and no orders were lost (preventing the common over-ordering that happens when 1/4 orders get "lost"). This joint runs a tight ship and I could see that the booths were getting cleaned up and turned over in record time.
The drinks were all delicious (and only 5$, definitely worth it) and everything we ordered was fantastic. Our group was particularly fond of the marinated kalbi, enoki mushrooms, and sausage.
The melona bar at the end was a nice touch, a great sweet ending to our experience.
It came to about 40$ per person for AYCE with a drink on a weekend night which was pretty worth.
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