Their barley set menu is a very good version of Korean "temple" cuisine and a pretty amazing value for $30, especially in L.A. / California. Probably a fine substitute for whatever Michelin star restaurant somewhere is serving for $200/pp "elevated traditional Korean temple cuisine". Skip the meat (you won't miss it, even if you're an avid omnivore).
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Barley Rice Bowl
Jung Baek
I got FORSED to order one dish per person. 5 of us ordered 4 dishes and waitress requested to order 5 dishes very awkward, left table ignoring our order. Waitress was very unkind even rude. Terrible experience in usa, experiencing communism.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Brian Won
Korean set menu, almost all veggies - delicious, and they even have parking in the back.
There's meat too but the main set menu is so big you might not have space to order anything else...
If you enjoy authentic Korean food and traditional Korean vegetables, this is the place for you. There are so many Korean barbecue restaurants around, I appreciate that this place serve herb-infused dishes.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jim KC
The set meal comes with about 20 side dishes, and they are neat and delicious. The owner and employees are friendly.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Yuri Jo
The food and service here are phenomenal!! A homey and inviting restaurant that serves healthy, hearty and authentic Korean food (mostly vegetarian, with options for meat). The set menu is SO worth it - comes with barley rice and vegetables to make your own bowl; soups, kimchi pancake, pumpkin porridge, and lotssss of side dishes (kimchi, radish, acorn salad) as well as persimmon and plum tea for dessert!
My fav was the chicken ginseng soup, veggie side dishes and acorn salad. We loved every part of this course experience! The restaurant is very inviting, warm and cozy - as if I'm transported into a Korean traditional home. We waited 15 mins on a Friday night; parking lot is valet $3.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
LoveSisley Co
Wish I can give 10 stars to this restaurant. This is an authentic Korean restaurant so once you enter you can feel the strong scent of the traditional food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Krisell Canamaso
I went on a Tuesday night and had a very easy time finding parking. There is free parking behind the restaurant and street parking. The entrance is also from the back of the restaurant.
Service was excellent. It felt like going to your friend's house and being helped by the kindest Korean mom. They don't have buttons at your table to request assistance but the staff is always walking around, incredibly attentive, and super warm and friendly. My entire group ordered the set and the food came out immediately. It being our first time, the server went over how to tackle the spread and explained the soups.
The food was excellent! So many delicious veggie banchan and the set is basically a BYOB - build your own bibimbap. There were lots of banchan I've never had before like chopped chili pepper, shishito pepper, eggplant, and a white mushroom that looked like a shorter seafood mushroom. My favorites were the small patty sized kimchi pancakes, the acorn jelly salad (could use more acorn jelly 😬), and the entire BYOB experience... that's pretty much all the food 😆 the sea snail dish was good but I wasn't a huge fan of the texture. I eat pescatarian and it reminded me of bony cartilage. The best part is that you can get unlimited Barley rice and banchan. It was so much food that we never finished our first set. We ended up taking the leftovers home and it was enough for another meal.
Overall, I would definitely go back and absolutely recommend it. There is an a la carte menu and I would love to try some of those dishes with a larger group.
Parking: After 6pm, free street parking. Otherwise, street parking can be 1-2hrs free during certain hours.
Kid-friendliness: If your kids enjoy Korean food, bring them! Restaurant is small and casual.
This traditional Korean restaurant serves $30 set menu that includes a dozen plus side dishes and two soups with options to add sharing specialty dishes such as bosam (boiled pork belly) or LA grilled galbi. Most people are building their own bibimbap with these side dishes and adding the specialties dishes. So it feels different than eating at typical Korean restaurants. Entrance is in the rear parking lot. You walk in and add your name to the waitlist board. Most of the side dishes were good and the specialty dishes were ok. Suggest to order the minimum order of two set menus for a party of 4 and add some other dishes. There was a wait of 15 minutes when we went during weekend lunch.
Parking: It’s plenty since you can park on the street too.
Wheelchair accessibility: It’s on the ground floor. Enter from rear parking lot.
Amazing value, healthful and incredibly delicious and quiet atmosphere. It was great to get healthy food out and still be exploring my palette, be interested in the flavors and surprised. A lot of food for 29.99 each and almost too much for us two people... left very full. This was also great for me because I do not eat red meat -- perfect meal for that with what only had two (I believe) meat dishes - sea snail and chicken.
It would be better to just eat bibimbap and cheonggukjang.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Paul Cho
My parents and I really liked it. The only thing that made it 4 stars instead of 5 was the fact that the dishes were a bit too sweet for our taste. Otherwise a great experience.
Max Rosielle
This place is a must go. You get like 20 different dishes with an order of the set menu (30 bucks per person). While I wasn’t a fan of the soy soup everything else was great and if you don’t like something there are so many other dishes it’s fine. They even give you 3 different desert dishes at the end. Incredibly unique experience you need to try at least one.
Amazing meal. The pre set menu is incredible at a very great price
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Absolutely wonderful!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Korean-Style Grilled Beef Ribs, Bibimbap
Their barley set menu is a very good version of Korean "temple" cuisine and a pretty amazing value for $30, especially in L.A. / California. Probably a fine substitute for whatever Michelin star restaurant somewhere is serving for $200/pp "elevated traditional Korean temple cuisine". Skip the meat (you won't miss it, even if you're an avid omnivore).
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Barley Rice Bowl
I got FORSED to order one dish per person. 5 of us ordered 4 dishes and waitress requested to order 5 dishes very awkward, left table ignoring our order. Waitress was very unkind even rude. Terrible experience in usa, experiencing communism.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Korean set menu, almost all veggies - delicious, and they even have parking in the back.
There's meat too but the main set menu is so big you might not have space to order anything else...
Parking: Valet in back, street parking in front.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Scorched Rice Soup, Pumpkin Porridge, Seaweed Crisps, Bibimbap, Barley Rice Bowl
If you enjoy authentic Korean food and traditional Korean vegetables, this is the place for you. There are so many Korean barbecue restaurants around, I appreciate that this place serve herb-infused dishes.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The set meal comes with about 20 side dishes, and they are neat and delicious. The owner and employees are friendly.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food and service here are phenomenal!! A homey and inviting restaurant that serves healthy, hearty and authentic Korean food (mostly vegetarian, with options for meat). The set menu is SO worth it - comes with barley rice and vegetables to make your own bowl; soups, kimchi pancake, pumpkin porridge, and lotssss of side dishes (kimchi, radish, acorn salad) as well as persimmon and plum tea for dessert!
My fav was the chicken ginseng soup, veggie side dishes and acorn salad. We loved every part of this course experience! The restaurant is very inviting, warm and cozy - as if I'm transported into a Korean traditional home. We waited 15 mins on a Friday night; parking lot is valet $3.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Wish I can give 10 stars to this restaurant. This is an authentic Korean restaurant so once you enter you can feel the strong scent of the traditional food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I went on a Tuesday night and had a very easy time finding parking. There is free parking behind the restaurant and street parking. The entrance is also from the back of the restaurant.
Service was excellent. It felt like going to your friend's house and being helped by the kindest Korean mom. They don't have buttons at your table to request assistance but the staff is always walking around, incredibly attentive, and super warm and friendly. My entire group ordered the set and the food came out immediately. It being our first time, the server went over how to tackle the spread and explained the soups.
The food was excellent! So many delicious veggie banchan and the set is basically a BYOB - build your own bibimbap. There were lots of banchan I've never had before like chopped chili pepper, shishito pepper, eggplant, and a white mushroom that looked like a shorter seafood mushroom. My favorites were the small patty sized kimchi pancakes, the acorn jelly salad (could use more acorn jelly 😬), and the entire BYOB experience... that's pretty much all the food 😆 the sea snail dish was good but I wasn't a huge fan of the texture. I eat pescatarian and it reminded me of bony cartilage. The best part is that you can get unlimited Barley rice and banchan. It was so much food that we never finished our first set. We ended up taking the leftovers home and it was enough for another meal.
Overall, I would definitely go back and absolutely recommend it. There is an a la carte menu and I would love to try some of those dishes with a larger group.
Parking: After 6pm, free street parking. Otherwise, street parking can be 1-2hrs free during certain hours.
Kid-friendliness: If your kids enjoy Korean food, bring them! Restaurant is small and casual.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kimchi Pancakes, Pumpkin Porridge, Seaweed Crisps, Bibimbap, Barley Rice Bowl
Restaurantji Recommends
This traditional Korean restaurant serves $30 set menu that includes a dozen plus side dishes and two soups with options to add sharing specialty dishes such as bosam (boiled pork belly) or LA grilled galbi. Most people are building their own bibimbap with these side dishes and adding the specialties dishes. So it feels different than eating at typical Korean restaurants. Entrance is in the rear parking lot. You walk in and add your name to the waitlist board. Most of the side dishes were good and the specialty dishes were ok. Suggest to order the minimum order of two set menus for a party of 4 and add some other dishes. There was a wait of 15 minutes when we went during weekend lunch.
Parking: It’s plenty since you can park on the street too.
Wheelchair accessibility: It’s on the ground floor. Enter from rear parking lot.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Dried Yellow Corvina, Korean-Style Grilled Beef Ribs, Pumpkin Porridge, Bibimbap, Barley Rice Bowl, Grilled Spareribs, Mung Bean Pancake
Amazing value, healthful and incredibly delicious and quiet atmosphere. It was great to get healthy food out and still be exploring my palette, be interested in the flavors and surprised. A lot of food for 29.99 each and almost too much for us two people... left very full. This was also great for me because I do not eat red meat -- perfect meal for that with what only had two (I believe) meat dishes - sea snail and chicken.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pumpkin Porridge, Barley Rice Bowl
It would be better to just eat bibimbap and cheonggukjang.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
My parents and I really liked it. The only thing that made it 4 stars instead of 5 was the fact that the dishes were a bit too sweet for our taste. Otherwise a great experience.
This place is a must go. You get like 20 different dishes with an order of the set menu (30 bucks per person). While I wasn’t a fan of the soy soup everything else was great and if you don’t like something there are so many other dishes it’s fine. They even give you 3 different desert dishes at the end. Incredibly unique experience you need to try at least one.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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