I have been to at least two other Owl of Minerva locations and had a pleasant experience. This place ended up being disappointing.
The prices are a little higher than I expected, especially with competitors such as 100% Korean very close by but I guess this is the franchise norm. Got a seafood tofu soup with rice which is typicallly one of my favourite korean dishes. They give banchan here, like every other Korean restaurant but they give only 4 kinds and they're all types of pickled veggies. I applaud them for the cost-saving, skimpy method. Where were my glass noodles, fishcakes and honey potatoes? That's what I would like to know.
As for the soup, it tasted bland and lacked the sour tones that I typically enjoy for this kind of soup. For 10.99 I really did expect something better. It did have a decent amount of seafood in it though. But the soup itself was definitely a miss.
I don't mean to be rude but the service was kind of pushy and they kept checking on us at awkward and frequent times. That's something I don't appreciate. Just let me eat and talk to my fellow diner(s) in peace please.
It's not the worst franchise location, but I don't see it being in my top books and I really don't see a good reason for coming back when there are so many other better and cheaper options nearby.