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| - Went on Friday night at 630, and it was packed (obviously). The wait time from that point was 1 hour and 45 minutes for a table of 2. Once it reached around 7 they would start turning people away if they sense that the wait time was going to be absurd. Which is quite considerate (in my opinion). Also, there is no booking of tables for parties less than 6.
Going into the restaurant, you can see they designed a HUGE lobby, which takes up more space that could have been used to serve customers, again in my opinion, it looked like a waste.
We finally sat down, and they already have people hovering ready to take your order. The total stay time was 2 hours. They try to have a quick turnover, so you will see ALOT of servers around the restaurants. We ordered one of every meat, and it came really quickly. Again, they want you out by the 2 hour mark. All the meat are NOT marinated other than the kalbi, which in turn made the other meat tasteless. The veggies were great, the enoki mushroom came in a tin, I'd suggest you make the veggies in there.
On the table there are two things for dipping sauce, one type of powder, spicy and one semi sweet soy sauce which wasn't too salty. The quality of the meat was pretty good,at least it wasn't overly salty from the marinating. There are other non-bbq dishes like kimchi, cold tofu, miso soup, etc. If you need carbs there is bibimbap and cold sobs noodles.
You get reminded at the 1.5 hour mark that you have to make a last call, which INCLUDES dessert. Dessert we ordered creme brûlée, which was not a must have. Then at the two hour mark, they offer you your choice of Melona bar, then a whirlwind of people come and clean up your table, and then someone comes with a machine for your payment. They really want you out of there.
For the price, i don't think it's really quite worth it. It's more novelty as they call it Japanese BBQ, but it's a combination of Japanese and Korean. So it's not really that special. And basically how they have timed everything, you don't really get to eat comfortably as you know the time is ticking on you.
You could try it for the sake of "I've tried it", but you can just go eat KBBQ somewhere else and enjoy your time.
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