Dropped in on a cold day (-30 C with windchill!) for a quick lunch date with mom and sis who works up the street. I had been to this restaurant before but I guess it was just as ho hum back then and I must have felt that the visit didn't warrant a review. This being my second ho hum experience at the same place, I believe this time BH deserve one.
Seeing as BH is located in the "Koreatown North", I'm surprised that they can survive serving the kind of food they do. There seem to be tons of choices for Korean food around the area that I know for sure I won't be back here again. After reading other reviews, I guess it's their AYCE that brings in lot of non-Korean patrons that fuels BH's survival. Even when we were there for the weekday lunch, most of the patron's in the pretty packed restaurant were non-Koreans. No matter.
We ordered 2 seafood soontufus and 1 kimchi jjigae. The standard 4 set banchan arrived with the meal and I liked that they served their barley tea warm and not scolding hot.
The purple rice that each of our stews came with were cooked with not enough water and came off too chewy for my liking. The banchans (spicy fish cake, kimchi, bean sprouts and seaweed salad) were unevenly seasoned, with the fish cake being too salty, kimchi (unfermented) on the bland side and both bean sprouts and the seaweed salad bordering tasteless.
My kimchi stew was probably the most edible thing with chunks of pork belly swimming in a msg-laden broth. My sister and my mom's soontufu didn't fare very well as you could smell the Ajinomoto before the server even placed them on the table.
Indifferent service, below average food and paid parking....I'm pretty sure I won't be coming back.