The lovely and wise Diane D invited me here, and based on the fact that she lived in Korea and confessed she's been eating here a couple times a week since it opened I was out the door in a flash, walking twenty minutes in the rain to climb the stairs to this bit of delight on Parc Avenue.
I was so so so not disappointed. The atmosphere is friendly and cool, with K-Pop rocking from a Youtube playlist on a flat screen tv behind the bar. The wait staff are cool and friendly as well, coming over the chat and offer my cute companion her "regular" with piles of sides. The room is not too brightly lit, casual and sparkling clean and oddly but endearingly decorated with a lot of red and black. Most importantly we're talking fresh inexpensive eats. The kimchi pork stew was everything it should be, fresh ingredients, spicy, hot, and full of things designed to cure and sooth you. All together generally Chinge in that moment made the end of winter seem tasty and good. I will be back for sure.