Great Tofu stone pot Bi Bim Bap — worth a stop! Staff is friendly, price is affordable and the food is delicious.Vegetarian options: Tofu Bi Bim Bap is my fave!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Stone Bowl Bibimbap
Vikash K.
Enjoyed the Kalbi here. Good portions and the service was prompt. Good menu prices with many options.
sandra booher
Love the food and the wait staff was extremely friendly.
Haley Vardy
Pretty good! I had a side, main, and some kimchi—all of which was good for the price.I personally don’t know what the reviews about the wait are referring to, but I may have come at a less busy time than others. My food was ready after about twenty minutes.The man who helped me was EXTREMELY polite!!! Definitely 5/5 stars for service.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
preston mann
This place either hasn't been able to rebuild it's staff since the shutdown or I'm not sure what the problem is. I ordered 2 beef dumplings soups. They quoted a half hour wait. I waited another 40 minutes after I arrived . I don't really know why I waited. I ended up with soup that clearly was pork broth instead of beef. It was edible but you should know ordering here is probably a gamble at best.
Michael Zhu
Authentic Korean
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pork Dolsot Bibimbap
James Lewis
My girlfriend and I went for dinner on a Saturday night. Was extremely busy, and only had 1 server for the entire restaurant, but you could not tell. The young gentleman was balancing all of the tables perfectly, even cleaning them off to sit new guests immediately. The food was amazing, we will forsure be back next time we visit Ann Arbor
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Barbara G.
We come here pretty often. They have delicious vegan options and the entree includes a nice little selection of appetizers. The house hot tea is also delicious.
Janice Kim
OMG!!! They have homemade dumplings. It was so good. I am from Chicago and I wish this place was near by me....
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pork Dolsot Bibimbap, Seafood Soft Tofu Stew, Dumplings and More
Kevin Payne
So happy to find a good stone bowl bibimbap!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bulgogi, Stone Bowl Bibimbap, Steamed Dumplings
I had high hopes for this restaurant. Unfortunately, it is nowhere near as authentic as it claims. The most beloved Bibimbap dish is not even made correctly. Instead of a wide variety of marinated/pickled vegetables with a side of rice, the bowl is sadly filled with a few raw vegetables such as iceberg lettuce, sliced carrots, and raw cabbage, with rice already on the bottom that is lukewarm. My daughter ordered the pork Japchae dish, but the noodles have been cut to a ridiculous two-inch length and mixed with strangely sweet small pork slices, without many other ingredients. The seafood pancake is hard, and there weren't any green onions inside.We were the first customers to arrive for dinner service, and it took nearly 20 minutes to get our food. The only thing that was good is our server; she was friendly and pleasant. It seems like the chef has taken many shortcuts when it comes to ingredients, yet it still lacks quality and authenticity. Unable to recommend this place.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Jessica S.
I tried the japchae and combi with kalbi and bulgogi. The japchae was perfectly cooked. The bulgogi was good but those hot plates can dry it out quick. The kalbi was very tough and hard to eat, definitely the toughest of all the places I have been in the area so far. Macheko has the best kalbi, tender and off the bone. I liked the pickled radish. Friendly service. It was really cold inside, so maybe winter is not the best time to visit this small place.
Nezrin Photography
This restaurant has lost its passion. There is no love and effort put into preparing dishes. The menu is misleading. The Stir-fry we ordered was dry. Seafood soups were nothing but the broth and tofu.To the owners: the simple solution is to remove some items from your menu and focus on quality. Also, please change your view of your clients. Your clients are not dumb.
Food: 1
Danielle Ward
Great food and service. Facility a bit dated but worth the visit!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fried Tofu
Sandra Y.
Normal mom and pop place to eat at. In my opinion, I enjoyed the broth of the Wooguji Galbi Tang but I only got like two pieces of Kalbi so I was a little disappointed with that. It was around 15.99. My sister got the bibimbop, the meat was portioned well, not too much meat and good amount of veggies. It had purple cabbage in it, which I haven't had before but I enjoy purple cabbage and the egg was perfectly runny for the bibimbop. My sisters bf had the chicken katsu and they said it was crunchy and still very juicy, so I trust that was truthful. Then my bf had the bulgogi, it was slightly too sweet for me, but my bf enjoyed it. We also got some starters like the seafood pancake and the spicy rice cakes. The pancake was crispy and seasoned well but I was disappointed in the spicy rice cakes, I felt like the rice cakes were only boiled and had no texture. The spicy sauce was delicious but there just wasn't any texture so I didn't enjoy it as much as I had anticipated. I was expecting it something more crispy with a little bit of sauce on the rice cakes. Just to mention the menu at the restaurant didn't have the description like the online menu so I had to go on what they said it would be like. Overall probably not bad if you're craving Korean but not something I'd go out of my way to get if I had other options.
Great Tofu stone pot Bi Bim Bap — worth a stop! Staff is friendly, price is affordable and the food is delicious.Vegetarian options: Tofu Bi Bim Bap is my fave!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Stone Bowl Bibimbap
Enjoyed the Kalbi here. Good portions and the service was prompt. Good menu prices with many options.
Love the food and the wait staff was extremely friendly.
Pretty good! I had a side, main, and some kimchi—all of which was good for the price.I personally don’t know what the reviews about the wait are referring to, but I may have come at a less busy time than others. My food was ready after about twenty minutes.The man who helped me was EXTREMELY polite!!! Definitely 5/5 stars for service.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
This place either hasn't been able to rebuild it's staff since the shutdown or I'm not sure what the problem is. I ordered 2 beef dumplings soups. They quoted a half hour wait. I waited another 40 minutes after I arrived . I don't really know why I waited. I ended up with soup that clearly was pork broth instead of beef. It was edible but you should know ordering here is probably a gamble at best.
Authentic Korean
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pork Dolsot Bibimbap
My girlfriend and I went for dinner on a Saturday night. Was extremely busy, and only had 1 server for the entire restaurant, but you could not tell. The young gentleman was balancing all of the tables perfectly, even cleaning them off to sit new guests immediately. The food was amazing, we will forsure be back next time we visit Ann Arbor
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We come here pretty often. They have delicious vegan options and the entree includes a nice little selection of appetizers. The house hot tea is also delicious.
OMG!!! They have homemade dumplings. It was so good. I am from Chicago and I wish this place was near by me....
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pork Dolsot Bibimbap, Seafood Soft Tofu Stew, Dumplings and More
So happy to find a good stone bowl bibimbap!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Bulgogi, Stone Bowl Bibimbap, Steamed Dumplings
Restaurantji Recommends
I had high hopes for this restaurant. Unfortunately, it is nowhere near as authentic as it claims. The most beloved Bibimbap dish is not even made correctly. Instead of a wide variety of marinated/pickled vegetables with a side of rice, the bowl is sadly filled with a few raw vegetables such as iceberg lettuce, sliced carrots, and raw cabbage, with rice already on the bottom that is lukewarm. My daughter ordered the pork Japchae dish, but the noodles have been cut to a ridiculous two-inch length and mixed with strangely sweet small pork slices, without many other ingredients. The seafood pancake is hard, and there weren't any green onions inside.We were the first customers to arrive for dinner service, and it took nearly 20 minutes to get our food. The only thing that was good is our server; she was friendly and pleasant. It seems like the chef has taken many shortcuts when it comes to ingredients, yet it still lacks quality and authenticity. Unable to recommend this place.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
I tried the japchae and combi with kalbi and bulgogi. The japchae was perfectly cooked. The bulgogi was good but those hot plates can dry it out quick. The kalbi was very tough and hard to eat, definitely the toughest of all the places I have been in the area so far. Macheko has the best kalbi, tender and off the bone. I liked the pickled radish. Friendly service. It was really cold inside, so maybe winter is not the best time to visit this small place.
This restaurant has lost its passion. There is no love and effort put into preparing dishes. The menu is misleading. The Stir-fry we ordered was dry. Seafood soups were nothing but the broth and tofu.To the owners: the simple solution is to remove some items from your menu and focus on quality. Also, please change your view of your clients. Your clients are not dumb.
Food: 1
Great food and service. Facility a bit dated but worth the visit!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Fried Tofu
Normal mom and pop place to eat at. In my opinion, I enjoyed the broth of the Wooguji Galbi Tang but I only got like two pieces of Kalbi so I was a little disappointed with that. It was around 15.99. My sister got the bibimbop, the meat was portioned well, not too much meat and good amount of veggies. It had purple cabbage in it, which I haven't had before but I enjoy purple cabbage and the egg was perfectly runny for the bibimbop. My sisters bf had the chicken katsu and they said it was crunchy and still very juicy, so I trust that was truthful. Then my bf had the bulgogi, it was slightly too sweet for me, but my bf enjoyed it. We also got some starters like the seafood pancake and the spicy rice cakes. The pancake was crispy and seasoned well but I was disappointed in the spicy rice cakes, I felt like the rice cakes were only boiled and had no texture. The spicy sauce was delicious but there just wasn't any texture so I didn't enjoy it as much as I had anticipated. I was expecting it something more crispy with a little bit of sauce on the rice cakes. Just to mention the menu at the restaurant didn't have the description like the online menu so I had to go on what they said it would be like. Overall probably not bad if you're craving Korean but not something I'd go out of my way to get if I had other options.