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| - The first time we came here was for their Korean barbecue. It was delicious and affordable that we decided to come back again after a month later.
This time, we asked for the same thing but was told that they took that out of their menu and replaced it with their "new dry aged meat". First of all, what we wanted was never taken off the menu and was still visible on the menu. We decided that we will give the dry aged meat a try since we were craving Korean barbecue that night.
Before we ordered, we asked one of the waitresses how big the portion would be. She had told us that one order of meat would be equivalent to what it used to be (one full big plate). We decided to order the New York stirloin (claimed to be aged about 40 days) and the pork belly (aged about 10 days). When our food came, everything was on one plate - we received 3 pieces of beef and around 10 pieces of pork belly plus a few pieces of vegetables. MIND YOU, the New York stirloin was $59.99 (that's $20 per piece lol) and the pork belly was $39.99. From looking at it, we were already very skepitcal as the cut of the meat looked like any other meat you could buy at the grocery store. We thought, okay since it is dry aged it better be good.
One of the waitresses cooked the meat for us. The pork belly was mediocre. Nothing special about it. But the beef was absolutely terrible. It was over cooked and not tender at all. We could not even finish it. The meat was no different at all to any other meat you could get and cook for yourself at a grocery store. When we told the waitress about how bad the stirloin was, all she said was sorry and that it was her cooking that was bad. We did not get any compensation for it whatsoever.
For the price of what it was, I definitely expected WAY BETTER quality meat. We basically only ate their unlimited side dishes that night. When we left the restaurant , there was a sign by the door that said the meat had only been dry aged since July 1st (1 week before we visited the restaurant). I cannot believe they had the odacity to sell us their meat that had not been aged of what they claim it to be and NOT tell us about it.
We used to love this restaurant for their affordable table cooking BBQ. It used to be the only good Korean style table top cooking BBQ in Markham, not situated in midtown or downtown. But after this experience, we will definitely not be coming back again.
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