Kimbap Paradise (Torrance)

Incredible food and relaxed atmosphere. The aunties running the place were wonderful, the food came out promptly and without a single flaw in sight.

We'll definitely be coming back, and recommending it to all our friends.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ordered foods about $300 and asked for 7 miso soups for service. Even It is just small amount they charged $1 each. They said cannot give service because it's owner's instruction.
Usually, other restaurants give us 1 free service menu for that amount order.

[Response to Manager's response]
$300 (20 items) for a street Food menu (분식) is not a small price to pay. it's not common that amount order for 분식 .
Thank you very much for 3 soup service. you will be praised by business owner as a great employee. LOL
3 free soups worth whopping $3. When you consider how much the soup was in each container, probably not even worth $3. You can probably get a lot more customers in return when you provide good thoughtful services. 진짜 융통성이 전무 하군요… Once again, very disappointed how you responded on my feedback.
Sorry, you lost a customer and more!!

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

We ordered $300 worth of food and just asked for a little complimentary soup but nope, apparently miso soup isn’t included with kimbap. Fine. But charging $1 per soup and then serving half a cup of broth with two sad green onion slices? No tofu, no seaweed—just vibes.

And that “Kimchi” fried rice? It was just rice pretending to be kimchi no real kimchi, no spam, just red colored disappointment.

I get that prices are going up but cutting portions, skipping ingredients, and overcharging? Not cool. At least be honest and call it “Diet Friendly Fried Rice” and “Miso Soup Lite. 💀

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

1st time trying this place. Very nice staff. & FOOD IS AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS! I was having doubts about trying the place but I am very glad I did. Definitely will return 4 more !!

Food: 5

Service: 5

First time here and we had a great experience 👋🏽 we'll be back again.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Quick K-food comfort style place specializing in kimbap. Big portions and tasty.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Gimbap

Awesome place! The workers are nice and the food is awesome. I highly recommend this place.

Chris & Liam

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great Korean food, highly recommend

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Their food made the entire group violently ill. Never again.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Great, authentic, little restaurant. Hefty portions and good quality.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Spicy Rice Cake, Army Stew

AVOIDThe kimbap was okay with a lot of crunchy carrots- maybe too many. The area around the register was cluttered and there was even a tacky sign telling to go customers to wait outside which I thought was extremely unwelcoming. I also observed the cashier eating in the food prep area and then placing orders into bags along with napkins and chopsticks. She did this with food all over her hands (no gloves) and without concern for proper food handling.AVOID

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 1

Love this restaurant. The wait time was supposed to be 20+ minutes but I feel like I got it in less time. It's nice to see everyone working at a tolerable speed where I don't think they're stressed out and orders aren't taking more than 20 mins. My experience with Kimbap at other restaurants is they take more than 30 mins because they're also dealing with online orders, phone orders and in house orders. But I believe everyone at this restaurant was doing that but still making good time management without sacrificing the quality and presentation of the food. I had an order of beef kimbap and an order of spam Kimbap. I'm looking forward to trying out more of the menu here when I'm in the area.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Good food. No complains.Look for spicy! It might be a bit much for some. I loved it

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

amazing delicious kimpab

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

It was really delicious
(Tuna kimbap, jjolmyeon, fried food, shrimp fried rice: for a 4-year-old child)
Very friendly and clean

Kid-friendliness: Shrimp fried rice and miso soup were delicious and not too salty for my child to eat.
There was a lot, so I donated the rest haha.