Me: What's the most popular Korean restaurant in Mississauga?
Response: Owl of Minerva!
This is the response I get every time I ask the aforementioned question. Basically it's popular for the fact that it's open until late at night and is affordable, serving hot comfort food.
We entered to a fully packed restaurant and luckily didn't have to wait too long for a table. The fact that it was so busy resulted in a lack of friendly or attentive service. The server left the menu and walked-off, then arrived 10 minutes later, which is when we had to request for tea and the banchan's, rather than them serving it on their own will.
They lacked much vegetarian options, so my friend got the glass noodles, which we do love whenever we get them as banchan's at Song Cooks. I actually wanted the cold noodles, but that was only a seasonal menu option so it wasn't available. I had no option but to get the seafood jigae, which I honestly was not in the mood of eating at all but couldn't think of anything else to order.
The food didn't take to long to arrive. The glass noodles were pretty bland, not at all like the kind we were used to from Song Cook's. My jigae was okay...I've had better.
Maybe we just ordered the wrong choices...but there surely is a reason for people going crazy for this place. But based on my experience from the service (or lack of) and the meh flavours of the food, I wouldn't really choose the place again when craving Korean food.