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Gyu Kaku is good, great even, and I say it's definitely worth a try. But please be warned that it doesn't really have much in terms of originality or value.
Gyu Kaku is Japanese Korean BBQ restaurant. Oh wait sorry, it's only referred to as "Japanese BBQ". But... wait again... What exactly is Japanese BBQ? What's the difference from the Korean BBQ style? Well, I looked it up for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakiniku
It seems like the origin of Yakinuku was heavily influenced by Korean BBQ anyways. To me, the major difference sounds like that the meats are more beef oriented and vegetables are cooked alongside the meats instead of served as a cold side dish a la the Koreans.
Gyu Kaku offers value meal combos as well as ordering from a la carte. For the value meals, they pre-select certain meats and vegetables as a packaged well balanced meal. However, we ordered from the a la carte menu instead. We felt like the value savings was in their salads and soups anyways and gosh darn it, we came for meats and not rabbit food! (Plus we get to try everything we actually wanted)
We had:
1) Harami miso skirt
2) Bistro hanger steak
3) Filet mignon
4) New York steak
5) Toro beef
6) Pork belly
7) Enoki Mushrooms
8) Sukiyaki beef bibibap
Lets just say that their BEST item is by far that Sukiyaki beef bibibap. It was delicious. We only got one, and heavily regretted not getting one each. We ended up having to get two extra rices anyways. Heavily recommended as a MUST TRY.
The harami skirt, hanger steak, New York steak and filet mignon were all fairly similar. They were all delicious, but wasn't as unique tasting as the restaurant wants you to think with the fancy marinate labelling.
Our first piece of meat that we grilled was a piece of filet mignon. It literally stuck onto the grill because it was so lean and dry. The best tasting meat was the toro beef (which by the way, just means fatty beef) because it was the the thinnest while containing the most fat content.
The mushrooms were also tasty, and it was nice to have a packet of tin foiled mushroom covered in butter thrown onto the grill to enjoy. Be warned though, portions here are not big.
Service at the restaurant is so-so. I'll admit I've never had a white person serve me at an Asian BBQ restaurant yet but hey, western fusion is the trend in Toronto right? Gotta keep up with Guu, Kanpai, Nome and Lee. In this case, the service was a bit raw. The server was super friendly but had a couple hiccups such as saying all our food came when it hadn't, the lemon water was just water with a piece of lemon on the side (lol) and she failed to mention that they had a opening special price on their value combos. The biggest concern was the speed of foods coming out of the kitchen was very slow. I mean, c'mon, it's RAW foods you're handing out...
The table comes with three extra sauces: sweet, spicy and ponsu. Sweet sauce is very similar to teriyaki (actually I'm convinced that it's 100% teriyaki, but the restaurant does not want you thinking that). I found the spicy and teriyaki sauce went the best together as the ponsu had a bit of a tangy taste that didn't quite fit well on my amateur palate.
Overall, the restaurant is worth a try. It's a good casual place for a hangout for friends or a casual date. I wouldn't recommend it if you're very hungry, since the portions are not that big. They have an opening special discount right now. 20% off on a la carte items and their combo meals. I don't know when this discount ends. There is no happy hour since they are offering this discount. The wait times were long. We got lucky as we arrived at 5:10 on Friday and were seated at 5:30 but we noticed that the group directly after us were seated after 6pm.
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