San Korean Restaurant
1063 N Roselle Rd, Hoffman Estates, IL, 60169
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Address :
1063 N Roselle Rd
Hoffman Estates, IL, 60169 - Phone (847) 781-8010
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Specialities
- Takes Reservations : Yes
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Lunch
Parking : Private Lot
Bike Parking : No
Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : Full Bar
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : No
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : Yes
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Odranre B.
it was a bad experience from the start...we were the only table that did not get banchan (side dishes) and had to request for them (but regretted it because they were terrible)...the dining room only had three groups of customers (but from the screech of noises coming out of the other rooms, the karaoke are in full swing)...we had very little service...we had to ask for utensils and water...there were dried up rice stuck on one of the plates...our food was served after 45 minutes of waiting while listening to karaoke including an asian version of house of the rising sun...all the food we ordered were not good...and karaoke britney spears sounded better than the original...
(1)Nick L.
The beef bibimbap in the sizzling stone bowl was about as good as it gets. The beef was cooked perfectly, the veggies were crunchy and tangy, and the rice was sizzled to crunchy perfection on the bottom. I'll be back!!!
(4)Tina L.
I guess people don't really know about this place. It currently only has 27 reviews. I can't believe it took me so long to try this place, especially since I'm always looking for good legit Korean food. If you like the knee soup, their broth is savory and thick and amazing. Totally hits the spot. They use the same soup base/broth for all their soups, so it's just perfect. I came here recently and had the Sullungtang, which is usually a beef broth with noodles. You add rice to it, which is a weird concept I'm sure...soup with noodles AND rice? I don't know what it is, but the contrasting and different textures just work together. Enjoy with their ggak-doo-gee (fermented radish) and it's the perfect Korean comfort food meal. Sorry, I forgot to take a picture...but I mean. Beef soup is beef soup haha.
(5)Patrice K.
We don't know much about Korean food & was on a whim on way home from a doctor do we didn't look up things-took some recommendations & I thought they were pretty good. Maybe nothing to rave about but she obviously knew we had no idea what we were ordering so she kept it simple & fried chicken was one! Lol. So she knew to play it safe ! Be different if we'd brought the right people. When we left is when I found out he actually wanted Japanese food!!
(3)Daniel S.
Admittedly I don't know much about Korean food, this was the only second time I've had it, so take my review with a grain of salt I guess lol, but I got the blood sausage soup, I thought that was an Irish food, but apparently Korean too, the sausage is a more smooth texture than usual, but still good, there was also these noodle things, beef, and a type of lettuce in the soup, what I really liked was how with the order we got all these small dishes, some bread, veggies, rice, and all these other things, it was definitely a good deal. I don't live near the area so idk if I'll ever be back, but I wouldn't be against going back, there were other items that looked good
(4)Candice G.
Oh boy. Brace yourself. This might get a little uncomfortable. I don't want to say I'm a gross person, but I have a pretty high tolerance for things that most people deem disgusting. Stuff just doesn't bother me and I'm pretty good with shrugging off dis-pleasurable situations. The key, I've found, is to not take yourself too seriously and just not care. I'm not special, I don't deserve special treatment, and when something great happens to me I'm excited but skeptical and when something bad happens I deal with it and I don't need the whole world to sympathize with me. I feel like this, for me, is the key to living a good life. Set your expectations reasonably, do the best you can, and don't sweat the small stuff. Boom. 100% effective. I felt like I needed to lay that out as evidence that I'm not a high-maintenance yuppie, but you can think whatever want. I pride myself on my robot-esque lack of emotions. Vicki from Small Wonder is my idol... plus they had they awesome train set. No, wait... that was Silver Spoons, which I actually can't relate to at all, but you get what I'm saying. So when I go out to eat and hear someone make a big deal about something like a hair in their food or gnat in their drink, I internally roll my eyes. Just pick it out and eat it. You know how food is made, right? With bare hands and plates and silverware that a billion strangers have eaten off before. It's unavoidable that you're going to pick up cellular debris from other foreign humans when you go out. That's just how it is. Which is why I couldn't have cared less when I pulled the first rogue hair out of my dolsat bibimbop (which was just okay, by the way... they def were hella skimpy on the tofu and egg)... just picked it out with my hand, put it on my place mat, and kept on going. Hell, I didn't even bat an eyelash when I pulled the second short, dark hair out of my bibimbop. I just kind of looked at it, thought it was odd, ya know, what are the chances? Then pulled it out and put it next to the other one on my placemat. I figured the bibimbop bowl was pretty huge so the chances of it having more foreign matter was about twice as high. No big deal + I'm hungry. I'm eating this thing and ain't nothing gonna stop me... wait, what's that? A THIRD HAIR? Just chillin' with my carrots. Oh c'mon. Now this is getting a little ridiculous, even for me. Are they making food back there or giving haircuts? It was at this point that I came to the realization that my limit for hairs in my food is 3. After that, when I've got enough hairs lined up on my placemat to start a stray hair conga line, it moves to a point where it gets harder for even me to laugh about. Did I still eat it all? Yes. Of course. I had no problem with that. So even though it was sprinkled with follicles, it was still decent-ish (again, they were pretty cheap on both the tofu and the egg). Comically enough, the real disappointment here was the "grilled squid"... which was not grilled at all, not even hot, in fact, just so firm that I wouldn't even call it rubbery. This squid may very well have been a very thinly sliced tire, because that's about how good it was. Thankfully, they served it spicy red sauce to mask the Firestone flavor a bit, but it was still unforgivably bad. It sucks because I was really excited to find out about this place and their hours that run until midnight during the week and 1am on the weekends... and they have karaoke but the rooms are right next to the dining rooms so bad singers may be your soundtrack for the night, though it was too funny to even be mildly annoyed with. Our server was what I typically expect when I go to a Korean restaurant (see also: casual rudeness mentioned lovingly in my earlier reviews), but I was out of tea and she was literally 12 feet away at the bar staring at me. I did kind of a motion with my mouth to ask her for more tea, but she just stared and kept blinking (I was 1 of 3 tables in here, mind you). Then I kind of lifted my cup and tried to get her to make a move... nothing. So then I felt super awkward because my next option was to press the 'call server' button at my table, which is normally totally fine to hit, but not when your server is less than a stone's throw away and already making direct eye contact with you, but she left me no choice. So I pressed the button and felt like a huge jerk as the doorbell sound went off for everyone to hear through the entire restaurant, but then she just waited a few seconds, looked at me one last time, then walked away into the kitchen. That was the last I saw of her until she came out to check on another table across the way about 5 minutes later. Awkward xInfinity. There are too many better-than-decent Korean places within a mile from here for me to ever come back to San.
(2)Kimberly Z.
OMG! I've NEVER been to another Korean restaurant that reminded me of home cooking. This is the MOST authentic place I've been to that offers traditional Korean recipes. I will be going back again, and again, and again (whenever I don't get a chance to go home that is). I have already recommended this place to everyone I know and they all love it too!
(5)Sue K.
Had a nice appetizer of thinly sliced beef and shredded lettuce with Korean flavorings. Quite nice, and could be eaten as a meal. This seems to be the place for stews -- the spicy fish roe stew was quite nice.
(4)Alan W.
Service was good, price::quality to was on point.
(4)Bing B.
Korean restaurant that serves the standard fare of sulung-tang (ox tail stew), bi-bim bahbs (mixed rice dishes), and yang yum googi (marinated meats). Food is average standard korean food complete with about 4 - 5 side dishes (bahn chan). The food and the service here used to be excellent before they sold it to another management. Now its just edible. I would go somewhere else to eat (and rate it a 2 star) except that they have korean alcohol there. Whenever me and a few buddies get the hankerin' for some hite, OB, cass, soju, or baek-saeju and we're in the NW burbs, we head on over here. Kinda expensive so i can only bump it up 1 more star, but its pretty clutch. They also give you some ahnjoo (something to eat while drinking) if you start off or only end up drinking. Also, if you stay long enough, they give you service (free stuff for heavy buyers). Its now more of a bar/lounge than a restaurant. Still, pretty chill.
(3)Eman A.
We decided to try this place since we had gone to BBQ Hut across the same strip mall. We didn't know that the thing that looks like thermostat was a bell to ring for the waiter. we wondered why they never came to check up on us. But the food was decent. I'm not sure I would go again, since I get the same food for less across the strip mall.
(3)Stephanie L.
Really bad service here. The waiter was not only slow, but uncaring as well. We waited over fifteen minutes for food and the waiter did not even bother to help the non Korean people at our table order. We waited another 10 minutes for the check after we finished eating. And the restaurant was not crowded at all. Also, there was a bug in my side dish, and when I called them over, they shrugged and asked if I needed a new bowl to use. They didn't apologize at all, and I was disgusted. The food is very mediocre, definitely not with the prices on their menu. I would definitely NOT recommend this place.
(1)Sophia K.
Awesome place for delicious korean food! Meals come with about six small side dishes and also rice. I enjoyed eating cheese bool-dak which is a spicy grilled chicken. (Try it with soju-korean liquor) I also recommend sul lung tang. The amount of food: they give you a lot Service: very friendly
(5)Eric T.
Maybe I just ordered the wrong dishes, but I wasn't impressed with the food here. Atmosphere is pretty nice, there's a lot of red throughout the restaurant. Got seated on an elevated booth. By the way, you can ring the button on the side to call for your waiter. Thought this was convenient other than having to eye down your waiter sometimes. So, my party and I ordered a beef soup, blood sausage appetizer, and bibimbap. The beef soup was sort of tasteless, so you have to add the amount of salt yourself. I found that a bit weird to do, but I'm pretty sure that's the norm. I was not a fan of the blood sausage plate. I'm usually one to try new things, but it's a huge plate of the sausage and parts of pork(?). The consistency of it of sort of funky because it was stuffed with noodles and it wasn't particularly aromatic or flavorful. However, thank goodness we ordered the bibimbap because you can't go wrong with that. I did like the small side dishes here though, they aren't as acidic than other places too. I'd say the price point here is a tad expensive. Would've liked to see easy staples like bibimbap to be cheaper.
(3)Ethan K.
The food is mediocre but the service is horrendous. Half are order was forgotten and we received no water refills or banchan refills. Look elsewhere for a better experience.
(2)Nara N.
DO NOT EAT HERE! Super bad place. Bad service and portion of the food is joke! Waited our food 30mins even though there was no one around! And finally food came, but one of the food wasnt even placed! The dishes was joke. Small side dishes was only 4 of them we didnt even near enough to get full and bill was high enough to be surprised! DO NOT EAT HERE
(1)Annie L.
What happened? I use to come here a lot with my family and the sulung tang was amazing. I went recently with a friend and the sulung tang broth was really...thick? The taste was alright but something was definitely different. Props to the one waitress serving the whole restaurant later in the evening. Perhaps I came on a bad night.
(3)Victoria W.
From what we could tell, it seemed like most of San Korean's customers were Koreans here for the authentic stuff, so the server was a little confused by my requests for a vegetarianized meal. It ended up not being a problem, and the service was very good. She explained the call button to us, and yet, perhaps because she noticed we weren't really used to it, she still came by a few times to see if we needed anything else and to refill our water. The dolsot bibimbap was fantastic! I substituted tofu for the meat, and it came out with soft tofu instead of the fried stuff I prefer, but that's okay. There was a larger portion of veggies than usual and it was amazing with the hot sauce. The banchan (side dishes) were all very good. However, all of them besides one had varying levels of sweetness and it totally triggered my partner's carb cravings. Due to that, we probably won't be able to come back too often. Sadness! My main disappointment was that for some reason they bring the soup and ban chan out with your entrees rather than in the beginning. I was starving so it wasn't fun waiting the full 15 minutes for any food to come out. I'm really intrigued by the sake/yogurt/juice cocktail in the back of the menu, but at $15 for the "small" I couldn't quite go for it. Anybody know what that's all about?
(4)Wai Sze C.
San Korean is a recommendation from my brother. At first, I was skeptical, because the rating isn't that great in yelp. But I tried it anyway. I wasn't very hungry, so I ordered a lighter beef soup with glass noodles. Honestly, it is probably the least tasty thing on the menu. The soup is tasteless. The portion is very small, even for Asian. But why do I give it 4 stars? The side dishes are amazing. Much much better than those in a few other Korean restaurants nearby. The best thing about Korean food for me is the side dishes. So I am totally happy with my visit even though the main dish I ordered was tasteless. I will definitely come back and order another main dish.
(4)Jessica O.
I cannot express how much I love this place! If you are looking for a great Korean restaurant then come to this place. It is worth the drive. This place will do large groups and give you amazing service. They have a little Karaoke room which plays Korean and Japanese Karaoke. The people here are so nice and the restaurant always looks amazing. I love coming to this place and will definitely come back regularly.
(5)Delilia H.
Went last night and was a little disappointed They had change of ownership and the restaurant was to be close at 1 am and we got there 12 am. The owned said the kitchen is closed! We drove really far to go there to celebrate a birthday. Finally she decided take us in. Food was good as usual. I wouldn't go back if they didn't let us in.
(4)P L.
Best Korean food in Schaumburg and possibly the Chicago area - hands down! Had the Kimchi fried rice with beef, seafood pancake, Chap Jae and everything tasted great! Prices were reasonable too but service was a little slow.
(4)Yane Y.
NOTE: For dinner, all foods in the "Accompaniment" section DO NOT come with the side dishes (aka "ban chan"). The entrees listed in the "Accompaniment" section are typically "accompaniments" to beer and other bar items. Therefore, please take note of this ... as I learned this tonight. While unfortunate, it totally makes sense to me. Now, let me hit some other items before I get to the food. As I mentioned in one of the photos, you need to use the call button to ask for service, whether it's more water, more napkins, whatever. No, as Americans, we expect to be waited and served at our beck and call, but the Korean culture is different. You'll just have to embrace this and use the call button as your request for service. If they do not get back to you within a reasonable time after you've pushed the call button, I think it's grounds for lowering points for service. But other than that, our service was great tonight. The server (one!) was serving ALL the tables. I guess it's possible when you use "CALL" buttons and don't need waitresses checking up on tables every 5 minutes. Hmm, is this an efficiency thing? I think it could be!! So, the DECOR. This place is like a restaurant/bar. As soon as you enter the restaurant, the first thing you see is a bar. So, if you're a drinker, yippeee. If not, you turn to your right, and you see a pretty nicely decorated restaurant. They have a few booths, and the remainder of the tables are open space. All in all, nice. Not BRAND NEW, but they've done a pretty nice job. Much nicer than a hole-in-wall, but not fancy as ... Chicago Prime Steakhouse. So, the food, you ask? Well, as a Korean, I was very pleased with the food. We ordered 2 dishes tonight between 2 people. Let me note, both of these two dishes could have been shared perfectly with 3 people! The entrees that come out are humongous. So, I think 2 dishes are good enough for 3 -- depending on what you get, and how big your tummy is! **SPICY RICE CAKES (aka "dduk bbok ki") - These came with spicy rice cakes, which were perfectly cooked. The actual rice cakes were not too firm and chewy, nor were they too soft and overcooked. They were cooked right. The red pepper paste was quite spicy. So, if you can't handle spice, you would want to reconsider! This dish also came with fish cakes, which were again perfectly cooked, a couple strips of napa cabbage, green onion, and one hard-boiled egg (which was also perfectly cooked). **Spicy/Marinated Fried Chicken (aka "Yang Yeom Tong Dak") - They must have taken a piece of chicken, cut to pieces, battered them lightly, and covered with a soy-ginger-based sauce. This was nice... the batter was not too thick and heavy. The sauce, however, was thick -- but good. That's it! Enjoy and happy eating!!!
(4)Christine S.
We actually went here by accident last night for my husband's birthday (we meant to go to the Korean BBQ place on the other side of the strip mall) but we were pleasantly surprised. The food was excellent and the service was good-especially considering there were what sounded like 1,000 children in their karaoke room. Not what we were expecting but good just the same.
(4)Brian K.
SPECIALTY - Seolleongtang (7/10) - Kkakdoogi (7/10) I ALSO TRIED - Nakji bokkeum (6/10) - Soon Tofu (3/10) - Kimchi jjigae (4/10) I don't normally spell those dishes in English that way, but I figured at least my non-Korean friends can Wikipedia those dishes, since those spellings came from Wiki articles. San is a nice little neighborhood Korean restaurant. They also have Karaoke here, but I've never done it here, nor have I actually seen anyone do it, so can't comment on that. There are more things I can put under that "I Also Tried" section, but I couldn't find Wiki articles with those names, so I just skipped 'em, but in general, most things here would be around the 5/10 range anyway. (LA places are generally in the 8 to 10 ranges!) SEOLLEONGTANG Pronounced Suh-Lung-Tang - and that's Suh like "Sucks" like "Ndamakong Suh SUCKS!" (da bears!) And "Tang" is like a short o (i.e. "clock"). Ok, I'm not going to do this translation thing for the rest of these, because this is hard, and it's wasting my character limit! The only reason I do it for this, is because this is their specialty. This is basically a process where you boil bones for 24+ hours to create a broth, but there's a lot of attending that you need to do. And the way that you attend to it is really both an art and a science. However, the broth is only 50% of what makes it good. The kkakdoogi, which is basically pieces of radish living in a kimchi type of sauce, is the other 50%. You can have the world's most perfect bowl of Seolleongtang, but if you have bad Kkakdoogi, you ruin the whole thing! Enough explanation. So, as far as Chicago is concerned, this is one of my favorite Seolleongtang joints. Han Bat in the city has a lot more followers, but I thought their kkakdoogi wasn't very impressive. The verdict is still out, because I"ve been here more than a dozen times, and I've been to Han Bat once. San's kkakdoogi is usually got a decent sour to sweet ratio, and the moo (radish) is fairly firm. I definitely am not leaving disappointed when I leave San. I won't call it LA standards, but like I said, for Chicago, it's great! NAKJI BOKKEUM Basically squid and octopus with veggies in a spicy sauce. San has changed owners at least a couple times since it opened. Back when it first opened, this was the best Nakji Bokkeum I've ever had (not just in Chicago!). But after changing owners, it's still pretty good, but not quite like what it was before. Before, the squid was perfectly chewy, but not rubbery, but the sauce...OMG the sauce! It had such the perfect balance of sweet and salty, but the most important thing is, the spice was SOOOOO spicy it was physically exhausting trying to eat it! (That may make most people not like it, but for me, that's next to godliness!). Now, it's lost a little bit of its sweetness, but the spice is what I miss the most. It's still got a kick, but nothing like what it used to have. KIMCHI CHIGAE Not very good at all. Granted, I've only had it once, so it could have been a fluke, but the kimchi was just not ready yet. You're supposed to use very very fermented kimchi when you make kimchi chigae, but it just wasn't. The soup, though, was pretty tasty. SOON TOFU I think out of all Korean food, this is the one that Chicago is absolutely the worst at. I am completely confused as to why, though. I mean, it's the same people from Korea making the Soon Tofu here that are in LA, but LA is just so much better! The 3/10 rating for Soon Tofu is an AVERAGE of Chicago! LA's are in the 9's constantly. The Soon Tofu soup is watery to begin with, and has no real intense flavor, like it's supposed to have. It's very mild, and very has no character. GETTIN CHIGAE WITH IT? With Chicago having the worst Korean food on the planet, San is actually not so bad. Averaging a 5/10 in Chicago for Korean Food is actually a pretty good score (on a curve, that's like a 7.5/10). There are some dishes you just shouldn't get here, but in general, when you go to San, you should really just be getting their Seolleongtang. If I go with at least 2 or 3 other people, we'll split a Nakji Bokkeum too. There are a couple of other Korean restaurants around the area, and honestly, if I had to pick a "neighborhood" Korean restaurant from all the Korean restaurants in Chicago, this'd be it!
(3)Mike O.
It's my go-to Korean restaurant! My friends and I always get the dolsot bibimbap (mine without egg) with pork dumplings as an appetizer. Love the other sides, including the kimchi! Hit the button to call the waitress if you need anything. Good stuff!
(4)Peter K.
I came here and ordered two Accompaniments which don't come with pan chan, which was kind of disappointing. We had to ask for it separately but when it came out, the pan chan was fantastic. The duk bokki we ordered was perfectly cooked (the rice cakes were soft and cooked just ride, the fish cakes weren't hard or too flimsy, and it was super spicy which is the way it's supposed to be). We also got some fried chicken (sorry, don't remember what it's called but it's in the Accompaniments section) and I would rate that dish 5 stars out of 5. It was perfectly fried (crunchy skin and soft on the inside) and the sauce gave it a perfect amount of flavor that when you bite in, it takes a couple seconds to figure out what's so good about it. But man, I could eat that EVERYDAY! The service was so-so but that's typical of an Asian restaurant. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was the price was kind of high for the dishes. For just two dishes, we paid $32 (pre-tip) so it seemed rather pricey. I'd definitely go again for the chicken dish though.
(4)Phil S.
Although San is labeled as a restaurant, in my opinion, it is more of a gastropub. The majority of the items on the menu are specifically geared towards accompanying Korean drinks such as soju, makgeoli and beer. Can you eat them without an alcoholic drink? Of course, but they dishes are known accompaniments for alcohol and they don't do a very good job of making them taste good. Everything I've tried seems to be haphazardly thrown together and makes me regret eating here. For example, the cheese bool dak (spicy chicken with cheese baked on top) comes out like some sort of watery casserole with an unappetizing undercooked taste/smell to it. The spicy chicken soup has the same taste/scent. The ddukboki (spicy rice cake) is decent here but Koreana makes killer ddukboki and they're just a few blocks away. I really like dogani (beef tendon) and when San first opened up, they had fantastic seollung tang and dogani. Now the dogani is hard and grisly. They have several karaoke rooms and the typical liquors favored by Koreans but I wouldn't bother asking them for any drinks that require more than 2 ingredients. The husband/wife owners are fairly nice but they don't typically interact with customers unless they know them. It is fairly common to receive or see others receiving "service" which is free items on the house from the owners and occasionally from the wait staff. Sometimes the waitresses can be a bit cranky and their general demeanor reflects their disdain for having to come in to work that day. Somewhat expected of Korean wait staff in Chicago but, surprisingly, not in any other city. I've been coming here since they first opened up and have tasted the decline of their food while prices continue to rise. It is a fairly large unit inside a strip mall and I'm sure they need to make up the money somewhere especially since I've also noticed the decline in customers. You are probably wondering why I come here, right? There are exactly zero other places like San within my area so people I know as well as myself really have no choice unless we drive further east or all the way to the city. For those of you who think the food here is great... you really need to culture your taste buds at other Korean restaurants in the area or preferably the city. This place is only good for paying a lot of money to get drunk while eating some less than mediocre accompaniment dishes.
(2)Rich W.
I like this place for what it is. This is not really a BBQ place like Woo Lae Oak. They cook the meat for you in the kitchen, and the flavor is a bit too sweet for my taste (the non-bbq items on the menu are a lot better). That said, this place opens late (til midnight on weekdays and 1 on the weekend) - so it's a great place to stop by for a quick bite. Service is quirky, as you have to press a button for service. It's easy and lazy on their part, but you have to admit - it works! If I have a sudden craving for Korean food at night and I'm by myself - I hit this place. Great for solo diners. And the $11 dolsot bibimbop comes with 6 panchan and soup. Can't beat that!
(4)T L.
We went here for an impromptu birthday dinner. They were able to seat 6 quickly, not to say they were dead, but it wasn't bustling to the brim either. Two of us split Kalbi, bulgogi, bibimbap, and dumplings. I don't remember what everyone else ordered, but there were no complaints- lots of silence while eating. I was reminded of eating my best friend's mom's house, and enjoying their homemade korean food. Except the meat here was a tad bit on the sweet side. The portions were large for the price, kalbi meat gets pretty expensive, and it was $15 for about 1.5 lb serving. I'll have to go back and try the spicy stews, mmmm.
(4)Jon J.
San is a nice little Korean bar/restaurant. No table BBQ, but, ya know, there's a lot more to Korean food than just BBQ. They've got a decently-sized menu, with all the standards- a popular lunchtime dish here seems to be kimchi fried rice. I personally go for the pork galbi and the bibim bop. They also have some private rooms for karaoke, if you're so inclined. Generally friendly service and good food!
(4)Jin Joo L.
I live around Schaumburg and there are a few Korean restaurants that I think are worth the price. All Korean places seemed to have raised the prices over the past few years. Being Korean, I'm kinda picky with Korean food. I love the fact they have my favorite egg casserole appetizer. It's great for my nieces and nephews too, who usually eat that and soup and dumplings. My favorite dishes here are the Sul-rung-tang (oxtail soup) but I often have to ask for a lot of extra green onions. I also love their yookae-jang (spicy beef stew), and soon dubu (spicy tofu casserole). Also, they make a good ton-katsu. The service is usually a bit slow and I'm always begging for more water since there is usually only one lady but they have buttons to call them at your table. I also love this place because they give you yogurut (milk softdrink) as a dessert (kind of like fortune cookies at Chinese places). I noticed not a lot of places do that these days. To me it makes ALL the difference. It's the little things that I love and good food. And this place is also great for drinking with your buddies and having some anju (drinking food). Don't waste your time at some of the other places around like Soliphana, or BBQ Hut or I SHOULD say don't waste your money.
(4)Jeff K.
I have been there only once but I thought it was great. My son and Korean daughter-in-law like it a lot and so took us there. The bibimbap was excellent: nice and crispy at the bottom of the stone bowl. I enjoyed the Japchae immensely. The ambience is semi elegant and quite relaxing.
(4)Tricia K.
I've been here only two times, and that was plenty. I heard about this place from my sister. She had been raving about the neng myun (cold noodle soup) and saying that it was really good...went there to try it with her, blah...the noodles were overcooked and the broth was waaay too sweet. There was no way to save the flavor, even with adding more vinegar or hot pepper paste. I went there again this past weekend again because I had seen on the outside of their door a sign that said "Sulung-tang" and so I figured it must be their specialty there. To me, what makes the dish good is the tripe and also the ggak doo ghee (side dish of cubed pickled radish with red pepper - kinda like kimchi). So I get my dish and add all the necessary things that you do to the soup (i.e. salt to taste and green onion) and begin eating. The ggak doo ghee is terrible...completely not ripe and it tastes sugary. Disappointed, I opt for the regular kimchi to eat with my dish. But when I start looking for the tripe, there isn't any in the soup! I call over the waiter and he says that they don't put it in there anymore because people complain about the smell! (tripe is actually stomach lining, I believe from goat?). What the heck is that? If you don't put it in the soup, then don't include tripe in the menu description! False advertising...This is a korean restaurant and tripe is usually a staple of sulung-tang! I thought that was ridiculous. Needless to say, that is the last time I am going to eat there...two bad experiences for me and the restaurant is not an option for me anymore. Although my husband enjoyed his dish (boneless chicken stew), but their bahn chan selections were lacking as well. One good thing is that they have an extensive liquor selection for those nights where you have a hankering for some soju and anju. And they have karaoke rooms (not sure what the rates are). But I definitely won't be going back for a meal there.
(2)Christian P.
Decent Korean food...I prefer Korean places with table-top grilling but this was still pretty good. Kalbi is done well and their marinade is pretty good. Kimchi jigae and the like are also good. Their banchan varies night to night but the vegetables are usually fresh.
(3)Deez D.
Many years ago, when this place first opened, it prided itself for having the best sul lung tang. It was true. The best sul lung tang was at San. But, the owner sold the place to someone else like two to three years ago, and the food became just okay. The only thing good about this place is that they have a full bar in there. If you want okay but not good Korean food, then this is the spot.
(2)Rachael H.
It was OK. I had the bi bim bop, or whatever that is called. This rice with lightly stir fried veggies with a small amount of beef and egg. It definitely was not the best bi bim bop I have had. I thought the veggies were a bit over cooked. I could not find the egg at all. It did the trick for me though. I studied in China for a year and lived in an international student dorm where there were several Korean students and I used to frequent the Korean restaurant that they did so I like to think that I was getting some good authentic Korean there. This just definitely was not up to par by any means.
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