Message for the Owner: Please PLEASE bring back ttukbaegi for soon tofu and the other soupy dishes…! We’ve tried a lot of soon tofu jigae in various Korean restaurants in Columbus, and Nara’s tastes absolute the best. But without it being boiling hot until you finish eating, it’s just never as good🥺 We’re so glad you are doing eat-in again. Arirang’s kimchi is also the best. We also hope you bring back pajeon - that’s one of the very few dishes my small kid can have.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Joe Chongsiriwatana
New menu 2025 August
Food: 5
Service: 5
vrushali bhadbhade
We always get take out from this restaurant and the food is absolutely delicious!!
Food: 5
Service: 5
Pan Lucas
Authentic Korean food for a reasonable price. Portion sizes for the bibimbap were huge and I could barely finish it. This is hidden in the back of a Korean supermarket and you can shop while waiting for your food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
George Moussi
Had a very fresh-tasting Bibimbap today, never would have known this place existed!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Andres Walliser Wejebe
Really enjoyed the food
Emma
Every bite warrants an aggressive “MMMM”.
The dining room is closed, which is not advertised on Google. But that led to an opportunity to check out the Columbus park of roses, which was a beautiful place to devour this scrumptious meal of bibimbap, kimbap, bean paste stew, and kimchi pancake.
This restaurant is inside a grocery store, you order at the cash register in front. You are given a ticket to take back to the kitchen. For us, it was a 10-15 minute wait.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Emma Sawyer
Every bite warrants an aggressive “MMMM”.The dining room is closed, which is not advertised on Google. But that led to an opportunity to check out the Columbus park of roses, which was a beautiful place to devour this scrumptious meal of bibimbap, kimbap, bean paste stew, and kimchi pancake.This restaurant is inside a grocery store, you order at the cash register in front. You are given a ticket to take back to the kitchen. For us, it was a 10-15 minute wait.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kim BAP
Lesley Reed
Delicious delicious delicious gimbap!! Dining room is closed. It’s inside the market! $10 minimum on card. So convenient to grab market things and a quick meal.
WJ
really really good food and good price! Authentic korean food, one of the best Korean food in town!
It was alright that food was pretty bad, took to long for getting the food 40 minutes for something that wasn’t that hot
E L
Ordered fish soup and requested not spicy as my 95yr old mother can't eat spicy. The soup is done and I hear the younger woman behind the counter tell the older woman (cooking the food) that I wanted it not spicy. The older woman instead of remaking it, tries to play it off and pack my order. Unbeknownst to them, I speak Korean and understood everything they were saying to each other. In Korean, I tell her " I requested NOT spicy!" Then the older woman tries to convince me that this soup doesn't taste good not spicy. What in the world? A customer requests to make the soup not spicy and instead of apologizing for the error and offering to remake it, you try to trick me and pack it anyway? Then to make matters worse, after being caught, you try to convince me that the soup is better spicy? in the end, the cook re-made the soup. However, non-Korean speaking people, watch out! Absolutely do not recommend this place! If you go, make sure you bring someone that speaks Korean!
Tam M
This is my husband and I’s favorite Korean place to visit when we are in Columbus. This place shows that Korean food does not need to be expensive to be delicious. It’s a small cafeteria style restaurant in the back of Arirang Oriental Market. We got so much food and only paid around $20. We ordered Budae-jjigae and Kimbap. It comes with side dishes. Normally this stew is expensive in other restaurants, but here it’s less that $12! They have water available, but we like to also buy drinks inside the market. After we eat, we like to go shopping around the market.
E K
Ordered fish soup and requested not spicy as my 95yr old mother can't eat spicy. The soup is done and I hear the younger woman behind the counter tell the older woman (cooking the food) that I wanted it not spicy. The older woman instead of remaking it, tries to play it off and pack my order. Unbeknownst to them, I speak Korean and understood everything they were saying to each other. In Korean, I tell her " I requested NOT spicy!" Then the older woman tries to convince me that this soup doesn't taste good not spicy. What in the world? A customer requests to make the soup not spicy and instead of apologizing for the error and offering to remake it, you try to trick me and pack it anyway? Then to make matters worse, after being caught, you try to convince me that the soup is better spicy? in the end, the cook re-made the soup. However, non-Korean speaking people, watch out! Absolutely do not recommend this place! If you go, make sure you bring someone that speaks Korean!
WF
really really good food and good price! Authentic korean food, one of the best Korean food in town!
Message for the Owner: Please PLEASE bring back ttukbaegi for soon tofu and the other soupy dishes…! We’ve tried a lot of soon tofu jigae in various Korean restaurants in Columbus, and Nara’s tastes absolute the best. But without it being boiling hot until you finish eating, it’s just never as good🥺
We’re so glad you are doing eat-in again. Arirang’s kimchi is also the best. We also hope you bring back pajeon - that’s one of the very few dishes my small kid can have.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
New menu 2025 August
Food: 5
Service: 5
We always get take out from this restaurant and the food is absolutely delicious!!
Food: 5
Service: 5
Authentic Korean food for a reasonable price. Portion sizes for the bibimbap were huge and I could barely finish it. This is hidden in the back of a Korean supermarket and you can shop while waiting for your food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Had a very fresh-tasting Bibimbap today, never would have known this place existed!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Really enjoyed the food
Every bite warrants an aggressive “MMMM”.
The dining room is closed, which is not advertised on Google. But that led to an opportunity to check out the Columbus park of roses, which was a beautiful place to devour this scrumptious meal of bibimbap, kimbap, bean paste stew, and kimchi pancake.
This restaurant is inside a grocery store, you order at the cash register in front. You are given a ticket to take back to the kitchen. For us, it was a 10-15 minute wait.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Every bite warrants an aggressive “MMMM”.The dining room is closed, which is not advertised on Google. But that led to an opportunity to check out the Columbus park of roses, which was a beautiful place to devour this scrumptious meal of bibimbap, kimbap, bean paste stew, and kimchi pancake.This restaurant is inside a grocery store, you order at the cash register in front. You are given a ticket to take back to the kitchen. For us, it was a 10-15 minute wait.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Kim BAP
Delicious delicious delicious gimbap!! Dining room is closed. It’s inside the market! $10 minimum on card. So convenient to grab market things and a quick meal.
really really good food and good price! Authentic korean food, one of the best Korean food in town!
Restaurantji Recommends
It was alright that food was pretty bad, took to long for getting the food 40 minutes for something that wasn’t that hot
Ordered fish soup and requested not spicy as my 95yr old mother can't eat spicy. The soup is done and I hear the younger woman behind the counter tell the older woman (cooking the food) that I wanted it not spicy. The older woman instead of remaking it, tries to play it off and pack my order. Unbeknownst to them, I speak Korean and understood everything they were saying to each other. In Korean, I tell her " I requested NOT spicy!" Then the older woman tries to convince me that this soup doesn't taste good not spicy. What in the world? A customer requests to make the soup not spicy and instead of apologizing for the error and offering to remake it, you try to trick me and pack it anyway? Then to make matters worse, after being caught, you try to convince me that the soup is better spicy? in the end, the cook re-made the soup. However, non-Korean speaking people, watch out! Absolutely do not recommend this place! If you go, make sure you bring someone that speaks Korean!
This is my husband and I’s favorite Korean place to visit when we are in Columbus. This place shows that Korean food does not need to be expensive to be delicious. It’s a small cafeteria style restaurant in the back of Arirang Oriental Market. We got so much food and only paid around $20. We ordered Budae-jjigae and Kimbap. It comes with side dishes. Normally this stew is expensive in other restaurants, but here it’s less that $12! They have water available, but we like to also buy drinks inside the market. After we eat, we like to go shopping around the market.
Ordered fish soup and requested not spicy as my 95yr old mother can't eat spicy. The soup is done and I hear the younger woman behind the counter tell the older woman (cooking the food) that I wanted it not spicy. The older woman instead of remaking it, tries to play it off and pack my order. Unbeknownst to them, I speak Korean and understood everything they were saying to each other. In Korean, I tell her " I requested NOT spicy!" Then the older woman tries to convince me that this soup doesn't taste good not spicy. What in the world? A customer requests to make the soup not spicy and instead of apologizing for the error and offering to remake it, you try to trick me and pack it anyway? Then to make matters worse, after being caught, you try to convince me that the soup is better spicy? in the end, the cook re-made the soup. However, non-Korean speaking people, watch out! Absolutely do not recommend this place! If you go, make sure you bring someone that speaks Korean!
really really good food and good price! Authentic korean food, one of the best Korean food in town!
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