February 23, 2007
Ko Gu Ryu offers authentic Korean food at very reasonable prices, and it is excellent! The food and the service are so nice, I initially went there nearly every week when they first opened.
MENU:
The lunch menu includes set menus that are great value for money and give you not only a main, but also a salad, a soup and a desert, and sometimes the owners also offer you a free tea with it. You also get Kimchi, which here means a selection of small side dishes, but also refers to fermented spicy cabbage, a Korean specialty.
In the evening you get a bit less for your money, as you have to order Kimchi and any starters separately, but the prices are average for the area. The interesting thing then becomes the Korean table barbeque. Some of the dishes are prepared for you at your table, which has a hole in the middle in which they put a gas cooker. When they first opened you were even allowed to cook your meal yourself, but that changed pretty quickly after we left something on too long and filled the whole place with smoke, making waiters run over to try and fix it and rip open the door to let fresh air in. Sorry about that, it used to be fun :P
FOOD QUALITY:
This place is often full of Asian customers, which tells me it offers very authentic food, and that is often hard to find in restaurants around here. Everybody else seems intent on catering to the lowest common denominator, thinking it will bring in some of the less adventurous, more fussy eaters. After the first couple of visits I found out I was right tihnking it was very authentic; the recipe for Kimchi for example originally comes from the owner's mother.
SERVICE QUALITY:
The really great thing about Ko Gu Ryo though is the way the owners, a couple from South Korea, relate to their customers. They soon remember your face and always make an effort to be friendly and chat, without being intrusive during your meal. They will patiently explain any dish or answer questions and talk about Korea (or anything else for that matter) and even invited Matt and me for a Korean Barbeque at their place in summer - house warming party after they moved. And when there was a mix-up and we were served a wrong dish THEY were the ones to notice, apologised profusely and brought a free additional dish straight away. Even if we had been annoyed about it happening, we didn't have any time to complain. Can't really ask for any more service than that in a restaurant.
MENU:
The lunch menu includes set menus that are great value for money and give you not only a main, but also a salad, a soup and a desert, and sometimes the owners also offer you a free tea with it. You also get Kimchi, which here means a selection of small side dishes, but also refers to fermented spicy cabbage, a Korean specialty.
In the evening you get a bit less for your money, as you have to order Kimchi and any starters separately, but the prices are average for the area. The interesting thing then becomes the Korean table barbeque. Some of the dishes are prepared for you at your table, which has a hole in the middle in which they put a gas cooker. When they first opened you were even allowed to cook your meal yourself, but that changed pretty quickly after we left something on too long and filled the whole place with smoke, making waiters run over to try and fix it and rip open the door to let fresh air in. Sorry about that, it used to be fun :P
FOOD QUALITY:
This place is often full of Asian customers, which tells me it offers very authentic food, and that is often hard to find in restaurants around here. Everybody else seems intent on catering to the lowest common denominator, thinking it will bring in some of the less adventurous, more fussy eaters. After the first couple of visits I found out I was right tihnking it was very authentic; the recipe for Kimchi for example originally comes from the owner's mother.
SERVICE QUALITY:
The really great thing about Ko Gu Ryo though is the way the owners, a couple from South Korea, relate to their customers. They soon remember your face and always make an effort to be friendly and chat, without being intrusive during your meal. They will patiently explain any dish or answer questions and talk about Korea (or anything else for that matter) and even invited Matt and me for a Korean Barbeque at their place in summer - house warming party after they moved. And when there was a mix-up and we were served a wrong dish THEY were the ones to notice, apologised profusely and brought a free additional dish straight away. Even if we had been annoyed about it happening, we didn't have any time to complain. Can't really ask for any more service than that in a restaurant.
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