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| - Food: 2/5
Atmosphere: 4/5
Service: 3/5
Overall experience: 2.5/5
(1- Terrible; 3- decent; 5- Fantastic)
I stumbled upon this place after passing by it at night when I was planning to go to Hudson's Bar in downtown. Instead, of Hudson's I decided to check this new Korean restaurant out.
I love the decor and atmosphere of Maru. The restaurant is nice and upscale with stone accents on the walls and a mural of real tree trunks along the front wall. They have a projector showing K-pop and empty soju bottles lined up against one of the windows which I thought was creative but not overdone.
The service is not the greatest. Our waiter notified us that when we were ready to order we can press a call button on the end of the table to call him over. I'm not sure if this is the most effective way of getting service. Usually when you first sit down, they ask you what you would like to drink, but our server didn't ask us until we were ready to order. We ordered tea and it didn't come to us until 10min later, which isn't promising seeing as how there were only 5 other customers (we went there at 8pm). They didn't give us a teapot, instead we each got a cup with a tea bag and a lid that went over top to keep it warm.
We ordered from their dinner special menu which is mostly comprised of soups/hotpots for 2 people. It comes with two bowls of rice, sides (which you can refill on) of kimchi, sliced pickled radishes, honey garlic potatoes, and broccoli. The honey garlic potatoes were cold and dried out. We chose the Doboo-Kimchi Jeangoi (tofu and Kimchi soup $23) which had a little spicy kick to it, but was very bland and watered down. Although there was a decent amount kimchi and tofu in it with pieces of shredded pork, we could not get over how bland and bad it was. I found the side kimchi more flavourful and thick in sauce than the soup.
For a restaurant and 'bar', there wasn't a large selection of alcohol and we were considering in drinking at Hudson's down the street afterwords.
Overall, Maru seems like a nice place to hang out with friends, but it lacks in great service and food. Even though I only tried one of their dishes, I find that the quality of one dish usually carries over to the rest of the dishes. I don't go around this area often and unless you want a cheap lunch, I give this place a pass for dinner. I recommend you try someplace else like Don Day for dinner which is along the C-train line and near 8th street ( next to the McDonalds).
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