Decibel Korean Fried Chicken

A little pricey, but delicious!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 4

The chicken here is okay to good, but I want to clarify something as someone who grew up in Korea and still visits every year: the food they serve is not Korean fried chicken. Their red spicy “Korean chicken sauce,” labeled as Gochujang BBQ, doesn’t resemble the 양념 sauce you get in Korea. Yes, real yangnyeom sauce is gochujang-based, but the flavor here is very different.

Also, a small note: when you see random chopped scallions sprinkled on anything marketed as “Asian,” it’s usually not a sign of authenticity. That’s the case here as well.

Are they close to real Korean-style chicken? Not really. But authenticity aside, they do fry chicken, and the fried chicken itself isn’t bad. Just don’t expect true Korean flavors.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4

We have successfully ordered form this restaurant 2 times on GrubHub. The last SIX times we have placed a delivery order, the restaurant has cancelled the order without explanation. I have given up on trying to keep my business with this place. It’s frustrating. I have ordered on GrubHub with confirmation that the driver is going to the location, then the order becomes cancelled by the restaurant despite it being within operable business hours.

Over all it was very good. I have been wanting to try a Korean corn dog for a while now and it was delicious!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Corn Dog, Korean Fried Chicken, Cured Cukes

Got lunch on Sunday here. Strange that the street entrance is closed but you have to go to the adjacent bar to order at a kiosk and the food gets left on the counter for you. Couldn’t even see staff inside. Bar is well lit during day and not noisy, plenty of seating.

Food was great. Sauce was yummy. Chicken was super crispy.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 3

Skip, this isn’t how Korean fried chicken is supposed to be made. Texture was good but the drumsticks were too big. The guy taking our order didn’t speak English and couldn’t understand me. Skip skip skip

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 2

Occasionally there are issues where the system seems to not notify when food is ready, so you need to pay relatively close attention, if it seems like it's been a while

Recommended dishes: Waffle Fries, Macaroni and Cheese

The chicken tenders we had from Decibel Korean Fried Chicken at Esoteric Brewing Company on McMillan were excellent. Good quality chicken, tender and juicy, battered and fried. The different sauces we had were all great. Started with the Buldak Dumplings, which were very good and VERY spicy. We like spicy food, but if you don't then just know these are hot. Not too hot to overpower the flavors for me though. Will definitely get them next time and look forward to trying other menu items!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Recommended dishes: Sauce, Waffle, Korean Rice, Garlic Soy

My daughter and myself had the cheesestick, the chicken tenders, and the eggrolls. They were all delicious!!!!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Stopped in today for an epic flavor experience. Ordered the gochujang tenders, Korean fried corn dog, and the bulgogi beef egg rolls. It was my first time trying any of this and let me tell you it was all incredible! The breading and sauce on the chicken was an absolute flavor blast, and the egg rolls are on a whole other level. I was especially excited to try the Korean style corn dog and I was blown away, it was world's different from your standard corn dog. The flavor, the presentation, everything about this experience was amazing. I highly recommend checking them out! We will be back to try Esoteric Brewery which Decibel is located in

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Corn Dog, Korean Fried, Waffle, Korean Fried Chicken, Sauce

Do not order through the "preferred" method on Google. You will be charged but your order won't go through on their end. It's happened to me twice now.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 4

Service: 3

I am in town for work and ordered via Uber so I can't speak to the service or atmosphere really, but I greatly appreciated the automatic inclusion of flatware given that my food was not all handheld.

I had the Korean corn dog, a side of white rice, and a side of the marinated cukes. I wanted the drumsticks, truly, but was not gonna be able to eat that much.

The corn dog was something I had wanted to try because I've never had one. The breading, the actual frying, the sauce, everything was incredible. I feel it would be much better suited around a less processed center like dark meat chicken than say a hot dog, but hot dogs are so easy on a stick. I would eat the outer shell served as it is, alone. I didn't notice the potatoes at all, and I didn't care because it all combined to create something great.

The cucumbers were fine. They were very fresh, lightly flavored, but not so much distinctly Korean.

My main complaint is that the white rice was so bad. They expressly state "Korean white rice," with Calrose which is a fairly fancy brand of white rice. But the preparation was wrong. Instead of hot, sticky, slightly sweet, it was... more congealed, without being mushy. They let it sit in the water too long before cooking it, and/or used too much water to begin with. I'm inclined to rate it 3 stars due to this most basic staple being botched, but that's more a personal point of pride as an East Asian person.

I'm sure this place is worth giving a try.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Corn Dog

Crispy and fried to perfection

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The setting in Esoteric Brewery makes environment really nice. The spicy Korean BBQ tenders were very good. The Korean rice with pepper flakes was terrible (and was told I couldn't exchange). Very low likelihood of returning based on customer service of cashier

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Korean Fried, Tenders

I’ve now eaten at the location in. Norwood and Walnut Hills and the food was consistent at both locations and SO GOOD. The mozzarella stick is amazing. I had 2 in the last week.

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Fried Mozz