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| - My wife and I were being guided through the city tonight by google as it was helping us avoid the highway traffic on our way home. As we turned on to Eglinton, I saw this place and suggested we try it instead of going home to cook. After pulling over, I quickly checked Yelp (Surprised?) and the reviews were pretty good!
As we got inside, we noticed that they were proudly displaying a BlogTO "Best Korean Restaurant" award for 2011.
When I write reviews, my absolute primary interest is the quality of food. Bad service rarely makes an impact because as long as the food is good, I'm willing to endure anything. The service was OK... But we were only the third table for two in the place and we didn't even get our order taken for over 20 minutes. I can only guess that this was an off day. Luckily the food came about 10-15 minutes later but for a place that was mostly empty, this was a surprise.
And here is where Bi Bim Bap lost me. Korean food has become my favourite food from the Asian part of the world. I've been eating Korean regularly for over 20 years now.
I can only say that their 2011 award was either "Best Korean Restaurant in an area without any competition, yay, you win..." OR, "Best Korean Restaurant" as voted for by people trying Korean for the first time.
The food wasn't BAD, but it was absolutely not good either. It was perfectly down the middle ordinary and relatively bland as Korean food comes. Perhaps I should have known better of a Korean food in this super white neighborhood. I gave a bad review for another place across the street and as we walked out, I declared to my wife that we can never live in this part of the city because there don't seem to be any good places to eat in the area. No matter that the houses and neighborhood seem really nice.
In the Banchan department, all we got was a microscopic serving of tiny chopped up Kimchi and a few radish slices. Check out my pics.
Not that this should impact my review but I was super surprised to find that they offered an XXX hot sauce that came with a warning for how amazingly hot it was. I tried it just to see and it wasn't even as hot as a normal mild Gochujang sauce that you can buy from any Korean grocery...
So do yourself a favour and drive to one of our two major Korean areas and go just about anywhere else.
As I double check my review, I see that it comes off a bit vitriolic. I don't want to rewrite it because I think it's kind of funny and it is honest but really, this place is a solid 2.5. Not better, not worse.
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