Having said that, based on the recent meal, it’s no longer the best bang for buck restaurant in the city for me (until recently, it was the best restaurant for me).
Again, not saying it’s not good, it’s still excellent and it’s enjoyable.
Service is excellent as always.
Still would go back over and over again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Gil parra
Jook with abolone, lamb and banchan with the korean spirits pairing was a divine experience
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Queeny Qiu
Recommended to us as one of the best one starred Michelin restaurant in nyc and it did not disappoint. We enjoyed everything on the tasting menu. Portions were actually better than we thought cause we were satisfied at the end of our meal. Highly recommend and the staff were super amazing as well!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Caviar Kim, Brown Butter Ice Cream with Sweet Potato Donut, Mulhoe
Y K
top notch👌 service was incredible! branzino & their dessert was soo good i want to visit again just for those
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
purozack
Our family had a beautiful diner time thanks for the JUA. It was absolutely authentic Korean foods and de~~~~licious. We will definitely comeback again!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
C
This place was completely unexpected. I was walking by headed to dinner when I saw this quaint authentic restaurant. Stopped and had some drinks, which were amazing. Then realized we were in a Michelin Star restaurant.
Bartender was very sweet and food looked delicious, though I didn’t order food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pear Compote
Emma Torrison
best meal i’ve ever had… i will dream of that porridge (coming from someone who never liked porridge before this meal)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Andrew Kanouse
Came here to celebrate and it could not have exceeded our expectations more.
The tasting menu itself was great, we truly enjoyed everything we ate and it was well worth the pretty reasonable (for a tasting menu) price. The lamb & chan was such an interesting dish and a delight to eat. The jook was also easily a highlight and more flavorful than I would have expected. But truly there were no misses and each dish was its own very interesting time.
The service was so attentive and so friendly and much more approachable than you may expect from the ambiance, which created a nice experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
A C
One of my favorite Korean fine dining restaurants in NYC. For a city known for its bad Korean food, hate to break it to you non-Koreans, NYC should thank Jua for restoring the standard for what Korean food should taste like.
Yes yes I know it’s fine dining, BUT, I’m just glad I finally had decent Korean food that wasn’t BCD at 5AM when I’m plastered and barely alive
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Lean Sullivan
I don't have a single bad thing to say about Jua. The food, presentation, price, waiters, and soju? Impeccable. I went last month and can still remember the taste of every course.
Fantastic food. I enjoyed most of the courses on the tasting menu. My favorites were the jook (great flavor with a little kick, warm and comforting), branzino (went well with the citrusy sauce, and the charred skin gave it a lovely smoky flavor), and the sweet potato donut (had a sort of mochi-like consistency). The staff were super friendly and welcoming but could speak a little slower when explaining the dishes.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Amy
Amazing.
The caviar was a great start. We loved the dessert courses and the jook and short ribs were good.
The scallop and Sam-chi could have been skipped. The flavours did not go to together.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Caviar Kim
Jessie Chen
Excellent combination of flavors and textures!
Emily M
Lovely dinner all around - every dish was excellent and well paced. Also left very full!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Liesl Anggijono
Surprisingly underwhelming. I thought it was gonna be cheap and good ($140) but with the added uni kim ($32) and an avg glass of white wine ($22), it totalled up to almost $250 nett per person. The food was not bad, some i’d say were lovely bites. i enjoyed some of the dishes but it was nowhere near $250 dollar good. There wasn’t a consistent element of flavor bombs or crazy yumminess in the dishes.
(1) the caviar kim was a instagram-motivated induced mess. It was beautifully shaped as the caviar glistens in the low lighting of the restaurant, but the bite felt rather unfocused, with no clear objective. The big dollop of caviar on top didn’t blend well with the sour-ish mixture of the pickles, veggies, and rice — probably due to how the dish is constructed. They used ossetra caviar which is less salty and more nutty but the flavor mixture with the pickling just made it taste cheap and as if it went bad. It spent alot of time crunching through the veggies…. like way too long for a small bit like that. Too much effort.
(1.5) uni kim. The hokkaido uni melted into the rice and the sesame oil in the rice. There wasn’t any pungent flavors but this was extremely rich and creamy on the texture side, yet light and just melts in your mouth!! Unfortunately i had a bit of the uni before i had the full bite and it wasn’t bitter or anything. But for $32 i expected the freshest quality of hokkaido uni that had notes of sweetness. Unfortunately this didn’t have that.
(2) The striped jack was this beautiful firm yet plump fish imported from the japan. The bare quality of the fish is impeccable and i could eat it just by itself. Yet the sauce was waaay too sour and the pickled veggies took away the fresh, almost sweetly natural flavor from the fish. The companions of the fish just made the experience feel astringent and mouth-drying. Towards the end i found myself wiping the sauce to enjoy the fish by itself 🤣
(3) The jook was creamy, and hearty. There were fun elements of textures in it. Every bite was different. But in my opinion, some bites lacked of depth in flavor. I expected something more full-bodied.
(4) The branzino was dry aged beautifully. The texture was perfect. Crisp yet soft on the inside. It was a little too salty for the though. The sauce was waaay to acidic tho. The asparagus was a nice botanical touch but it couldn’t save the sauce from making the mix of the two extremes of salty fish and acidic sauce blend together.
(5) Lamb & chan. Probably the most decent dish. the lamb was cooked perfectly. no notes. It was fun to try each bite of lamb with each and every choice of banchan. The crisp potato chip with the sweet spicy glaze + lamb was a bite i will not forget. A harmony of caramelized crunch and soft, meaty goodness in my mouth.
(6) The mandarin dessert was nothing special with the caramelised chip on top. It was good but nothing new.
(7) the goguma juak was a potato doughnut caramelised with ice cream. It was puffy, yet crunchy on the outside and the warmth of the donut compliments perfectly with the cold ice cream. A great dessert but it is served and tastes exactly like how they do it traditionally. No innovation, and they just made it 30x more expensive.
Overall. There were some good bites. But most of the dishes that tried to be innovative lacked harmony and cohesion, while there were also traditional dishes that lacked innovation and just felt flat for an experience like this. I personally will not come back nor recommend this place to anyone who cares if they spent $250 on a meal i feel like should’ve been $85
Still great.
Having said that, based on the recent meal, it’s no longer the best bang for buck restaurant in the city for me (until recently, it was the best restaurant for me).
Again, not saying it’s not good, it’s still excellent and it’s enjoyable.
Service is excellent as always.
Still would go back over and over again.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jook with abolone, lamb and banchan with the korean spirits pairing was a divine experience
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended to us as one of the best one starred Michelin restaurant in nyc and it did not disappoint. We enjoyed everything on the tasting menu. Portions were actually better than we thought cause we were satisfied at the end of our meal. Highly recommend and the staff were super amazing as well!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Caviar Kim, Brown Butter Ice Cream with Sweet Potato Donut, Mulhoe
top notch👌 service was incredible! branzino & their dessert was soo good i want to visit again just for those
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Our family had a beautiful diner time thanks for the JUA.
It was absolutely authentic Korean foods and de~~~~licious. We will definitely comeback again!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place was completely unexpected. I was walking by headed to dinner when I saw this quaint authentic restaurant. Stopped and had some drinks, which were amazing. Then realized we were in a Michelin Star restaurant.
Bartender was very sweet and food looked delicious, though I didn’t order food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pear Compote
best meal i’ve ever had… i will dream of that porridge (coming from someone who never liked porridge before this meal)
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Came here to celebrate and it could not have exceeded our expectations more.
The tasting menu itself was great, we truly enjoyed everything we ate and it was well worth the pretty reasonable (for a tasting menu) price. The lamb & chan was such an interesting dish and a delight to eat. The jook was also easily a highlight and more flavorful than I would have expected. But truly there were no misses and each dish was its own very interesting time.
The service was so attentive and so friendly and much more approachable than you may expect from the ambiance, which created a nice experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
One of my favorite Korean fine dining restaurants in NYC. For a city known for its bad Korean food, hate to break it to you non-Koreans, NYC should thank Jua for restoring the standard for what Korean food should taste like.
Yes yes I know it’s fine dining, BUT, I’m just glad I finally had decent Korean food that wasn’t BCD at 5AM when I’m plastered and barely alive
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
I don't have a single bad thing to say about Jua. The food, presentation, price, waiters, and soju? Impeccable. I went last month and can still remember the taste of every course.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Fantastic food. I enjoyed most of the courses on the tasting menu. My favorites were the jook (great flavor with a little kick, warm and comforting), branzino (went well with the citrusy sauce, and the charred skin gave it a lovely smoky flavor), and the sweet potato donut (had a sort of mochi-like consistency). The staff were super friendly and welcoming but could speak a little slower when explaining the dishes.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Amazing.
The caviar was a great start. We loved the dessert courses and the jook and short ribs were good.
The scallop and Sam-chi could have been skipped. The flavours did not go to together.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Caviar Kim
Excellent combination of flavors and textures!
Lovely dinner all around - every dish was excellent and well paced. Also left very full!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Surprisingly underwhelming. I thought it was gonna be cheap and good ($140) but with the added uni kim ($32) and an avg glass of white wine ($22), it totalled up to almost $250 nett per person. The food was not bad, some i’d say were lovely bites. i enjoyed some of the dishes but it was nowhere near $250 dollar good. There wasn’t a consistent element of flavor bombs or crazy yumminess in the dishes.
(1) the caviar kim was a instagram-motivated induced mess. It was beautifully shaped as the caviar glistens in the low lighting of the restaurant, but the bite felt rather unfocused, with no clear objective. The big dollop of caviar on top didn’t blend well with the sour-ish mixture of the pickles, veggies, and rice — probably due to how the dish is constructed. They used ossetra caviar which is less salty and more nutty but the flavor mixture with the pickling just made it taste cheap and as if it went bad. It spent alot of time crunching through the veggies…. like way too long for a small bit like that. Too much effort.
(1.5) uni kim. The hokkaido uni melted into the rice and the sesame oil in the rice. There wasn’t any pungent flavors but this was extremely rich and creamy on the texture side, yet light and just melts in your mouth!! Unfortunately i had a bit of the uni before i had the full bite and it wasn’t bitter or anything. But for $32 i expected the freshest quality of hokkaido uni that had notes of sweetness. Unfortunately this didn’t have that.
(2) The striped jack was this beautiful firm yet plump fish imported from the japan. The bare quality of the fish is impeccable and i could eat it just by itself. Yet the sauce was waaay too sour and the pickled veggies took away the fresh, almost sweetly natural flavor from the fish. The companions of the fish just made the experience feel astringent and mouth-drying. Towards the end i found myself wiping the sauce to enjoy the fish by itself 🤣
(3) The jook was creamy, and hearty. There were fun elements of textures in it. Every bite was different. But in my opinion, some bites lacked of depth in flavor. I expected something more full-bodied.
(4) The branzino was dry aged beautifully. The texture was perfect. Crisp yet soft on the inside. It was a little too salty for the though. The sauce was waaay to acidic tho. The asparagus was a nice botanical touch but it couldn’t save the sauce from making the mix of the two extremes of salty fish and acidic sauce blend together.
(5) Lamb & chan. Probably the most decent dish. the lamb was cooked perfectly. no notes. It was fun to try each bite of lamb with each and every choice of banchan. The crisp potato chip with the sweet spicy glaze + lamb was a bite i will not forget. A harmony of caramelized crunch and soft, meaty goodness in my mouth.
(6) The mandarin dessert was nothing special with the caramelised chip on top. It was good but nothing new.
(7) the goguma juak was a potato doughnut caramelised with ice cream. It was puffy, yet crunchy on the outside and the warmth of the donut compliments perfectly with the cold ice cream. A great dessert but it is served and tastes exactly like how they do it traditionally. No innovation, and they just made it 30x more expensive.
Overall. There were some good bites. But most of the dishes that tried to be innovative lacked harmony and cohesion, while there were also traditional dishes that lacked innovation and just felt flat for an experience like this. I personally will not come back nor recommend this place to anyone who cares if they spent $250 on a meal i feel like should’ve been $85
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 4
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