"0"^^ . "2"^^ . "2013-06-25T00:00:00"^^ . "1"^^ . "0"^^ . . . . "I kind of feel guilty for rating this place a 2* as I do believe this joint didn't set out to provide a mediocre experience intentionally, however the same could be said about many other joints.\n\nFirst things first, even with the \"Grand Opening\" banner still hanging outside, the interior feels dated. Floors and tables are clean but the ceiling hasn't been dusted in ages evidently judging by the dust and lint accumulation on the tiles as well as water leak damaged tiles here and there. Overall sense of the place is one of dishevel. Men's room was more of the same, minus the clean floors. Women's seemed better when I peeked from the wide open door.\n\nIf you think all the above deters people from coming here, well, you're wrong! The place was literally PACKED on a Monday night at 8! It was pretty surprising in fact. Had to wait 10 minutes for the disorganized staff to finally clear a table and seat us.\n\nHere is a tip: If you're going here, try to bring along someone who can speak Korean! It was a struggle to get the order through with the staff's broken English. Also, apparently once you pick a meat choice, you have to stick with it! Even though there were two of us, there is only one choice of BBQ meat type allowed between two folks. It took a painful few minutes of back and forth before they explained basically the pan they use over the table BBQ for beef is different from the Samgyeopsal (Pork!) and so once you pick one can't switch to another. Nevertheless we insisted to switch from Beef to Samgyeopsal in part due to the poor looks of the raw meat we were given (think: oxidized color!) and were successful after arguing for a few minutes although we were scolded quite a bit! In any case, I suggest you pick Samgyeopsal as it's very popular here and seemed much better quality. It's also a lot yummier.\n\nSide dishes are free flow but the restaurant was seriously understaffed so you'd be in for a long wait before you're given replenishments.\n\nOverall the \"Samgyeopsal\" was really good but the experience was marred by poor service (due mainly to understaffing actually not so the attitudes) and a malfunctioning BBQ grill that needed a revival every 30 seconds or so in the bottom half of our meal.\n\nWon't be coming back here and won'e recommend despite the yummy Samgyeopsal!"^^ .