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| - This Korean restaurant opened really recently and replaced one of our old-favourite go-tos, Danji. I'm surprised there aren't any reviews on here yet -- there are a few on google and they were all positive, so we went to try it late on Saturday night.
They changed the interior quite a bit -- it's much more modern now, which is nice. They definitely haven't stopped decorating yet because the walls were bare and there were tools lying around. Everybody who works there seems to be really young, even the cooks. The service was friendly and attentive, and i like the way the food was presented on individual trays.. but unfortunately that's where the positive ends..
We ordered the pork bone soup and the bulgolgi bowl. This is the only Korean restaurant that i've been to that didn't ask us or have spicy options -- that was super disappointing. The pork bone soup was supposed to be spicy but it wasn't. When the soup came, it looked good, and it looked like there was so much meat it was like a mountain.. but when I got to it, they were big pieces of bone without that much meat on it. The soup base was so plain. There weren't any other things in it other than the meat and some bean sprouts, no potato, no other little pieces of vegetables or spice that they used. It was very "liquidy" and just salty. The bulgolgi bowl was an even greater disappointment -- my partner said he would only give it a 1 star, but that's also because he usually orders his dishes spicy but there was no option. The flavour was blah. It tasted like they just marinated it in plain soy sauce and some sugar and cooked it up with some zucchini. The side dishes were also not great, and they started us off with some "salad" which was literally a chunk of lettuce (mine was barely chopped up, and i got the core) and some ginger dressing.. nothing else!
Overall, if it weren't for the friendly staff and the interesting dynamic of a very young group that seems to run the restaurant, this place deserves a 2 for the food. It was really disappointing and sub-par on all levels. With other Korean food options nearby (and i should mention, this place has a slightly higher price point than others), I don't think we'll be returning.
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